Harriman News

Tolls on the state Thruway will increase 5 percent on Jan. 3, the last of a series of toll hikes in recent years on the 641-mile system.

Orange County is seeking a $50,000 state grant to try to resolve long-standing conflicts between two groups of municipalities that share the county sewage treatment plant in Harriman.

Last year, more than 5.79 million vehicles traveled more than 187.4 million miles on the New York State Thruway between Dec.

Once again, Gov. David Paterson and the First Lady are opening the governor's mansion to the public on New Year's Day.

Village police are investigating the appearance on Sunday of swastikas on the base of the menorah in Harriman Square Park.

Passengers on Metro-North's Port Jervis Line had a little company on their Wednesday morning commute.

Ballerina Rafaela Dench started dancing while still in diapers. "She danced in her high chair," said her mother, Amy Dench.

Metro-North train stops in Harriman. Service cuts would affect both sides of the Hudson, but the Hudson-Harlem and New Haven lines would take the biggest hit NEW YORK Riders on Metro-North Railroad can expect service reductions in 2010 as the result of the final proposed MTA budget presented to the Board's Finance Committee Monday.

Multiple car accidents caused by freezing rain have been reported across the lower Hudson Valley.

December 08, 2009, 7:16 AM / 1. Averell Harriman, a Democrat and presidential aspirant, was governor of what state during the 1950s? 2. In the motion picture business, MGM stands for ... Identify the company.

It has been five years since US Senator Charles Schumer secured $1 million to study widening Route 17 from Harriman to Monticello from two lanes in each direction to three lanes.

A potential cellular tower looming over the Antrim Playhouse threatens a historic district and the theater itself.

But instead of a new business or a promising startup moving to Harriman, it turned out to be a new $40 million laboratory for the state Department of Agriculture and Markets that will house 49 workers already employed by the state.

Multiple police units startled a car-load of young people at the Harriman Metro-North train station after a caller falsely reported that he was being threatened with guns by members of a gang.

The state Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed on narrow grounds the recognition of same-sex marriages by a county executive and a state agency, but by a bare 4-3 margin declined to extend full recognition to all such marriages contracted in other states and countries where they are legal.

HUNTER LAKE CAMPGROUND, PARKSVILLE, NY5 to 6 a.m. - Diane Schuler 's husband, Daniel, wakes up, cleans his boat.

A custodian at Purchase College was found dead Tuesday in the theater building, the Medical Examiner's Office said.

Diane Schuler, who police said was drunk and high on marijuana before she sparked a fiery fatal crash on the Taconic State Parkway, looked ill twice as she stood on the side of the road, bent over with her hands on her knees as if she was about to vomit before the accident, according to a state police report.

Planning to attend the Yankees victory parade in Manhattan? With street closures, no parking and the usual congestion, driving in is a nonstarter.

Two longtime Republican incumbents lost their Town Board seats, thanks to the changing loyalties of powerful voting blocs in the Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel.