Maybrook News

A trio of Orange County villages are among the fastest-growing small localities in the state.

On June 12, Girl Scout Senior Troop No. 722 hosted the first ever Duct Tape Fashion Show for Scouts within the Marion Wild Girl Scout Community.

Tiffany Weddle's family held a private vigil on June 9 along Route 208, where she was killed outside the Hess gas station near Neeleytown Road.

HIGH POINT, N.C. a ' Thomas Built Buses dealer Matthews Buses Inc. has acquired Maybrook, N.Y.-based Quality Bus and Truck Sales.

The Maybrook recreation department is registering women over 25 for its summer softball league.

The Town Board last week voted to install three improved lights on Route 208 near where a teenager was killed while walking across the road last year.

More than nine months after Maybrook police Officer John Bennett hit and killed teenager Tiffany Weddle in his patrol car while on duty, an investigation has cleared him of criminal conduct.

Fire ripped through a repair bay at Lothar's Body Shop Wednesday morning, doing heavy damage to the rear of the building.

One eastbound lane has been re-opened on eastbound Interstate 84 between exits 4 and 5 while emergency crews work on a vehicle fire, the Thruway Authority reports.

A Town of Montgomery cop on Thursday admitted he was part of a crew that stole as much as $1 million from local Wal-Mart stores.

Two villages in Ulster and Orange counties are threatening to sue their neighboring towns.

The village mayor and clerk filed suit last week charging that the Town of Montgomery inappropriately used village taxpayer dollars to pay off a recent lawsuit against the town.

A fire destroyed a storage building on Dolsontown Road Tuesday afternoon and burned a man who was living with his family in the attached house.

State police and emergency crews discuss the situation at the scene of a chemical spill at the west bound rest area of I-84 near Promised Land.

John P. Bronts of Pine Bush, a retired dockworker for Yellow Freight in Maybrook, N.Y., died on Sunday, April 19, 2009, at his home.

Friday's warm, dry weather triggered brush fires throughout the mid-Hudson Valley.

Firefighters are battling large brush fires in Campbell Hall and Ellenville. The Campbell Hall fire is between East Green Road and West Green Road, off Route 207.

Three days after his 28th birthday, Nicholas Valastro admitted in Orange County Court Thursday that he threw away his law-enforcement career over some parts for a truck.

In a time when families are trimming budgets and increasingly using libraries, local officials want to help Maybrook residents access more books.

Village taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the Town of Montgomery's legal messes, said Maybrook Mayor Dennis Leahy.