New Hampton News

Until last week, the Orange County-run transfer station off Route 17M was little more than a set of concrete cubbies where haulers and homeowners dumped their trash - a place so primitive and overused that it earned the county $60,000 in fines two years ago.

New Hampton - New Hampton School's Galletly Gallery will feature works by Andy Moerlein, a sculptor from Bow, this September.

NEW HAMPTON State Police identified the man killed in a one-car crash on Route 17M in New Hampton on Sunday as a Middletown resident.

Our current tough times have prompted a lot more people to consider selling their old gold wedding bands, unused earrings or 14-karat gold tennis bracelets for some badly needed cash.

A group of McVeigh Road neighbors petitioned the Wawayanda Town Board Thursday night, asking the town to install stop signs to slow down speeders.

Photo provided From left, Karen VanHouten, executive director of the Community Foundation; Linda Padden, president of the Women's University Club; Nora Strunsky, Alison Gillis, Emily Genender, and Arrti Agarwal, Women's University Club Scholarship recipients; Sandra Carlino, recipient of the E. Bash Soderlund and Barbara Soderlund Mentoring Award; ...

The Washington Heights Fire District covers about 3 square miles just north of Middletown.

When Home Depot CEO Frank Blake was explaining a housing market metric to shareholders during the company's annual meeting last week, hecklers interrupted.

On an average day, some 2,700 vehicles drive on McVeigh Road, according to the Department of Transportation.

News that Newburgh men identified as Muslims were charged with plotting to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot down a military plane at Stewart Airport reverberated through the local Islamic community.

WALLKILL Fire early Tuesday morning destroyed a house at 538 East Main Street in the Town of Wallkill.

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.

Firefighters are on the scene of a working structure fire near 1235 Dolsontown Road, by the intersection with McVeigh Road.

County officials expected the shutdown of County Route 50 - also called Golf Links Road - to end Friday night.

Step through the front door of the Outdoors store on Howland Street, across from the Heritage Trail, and this is what you'll find: Organic, grass-fed beef from Kezialain Farm in Westtown.

Government agencies looking to pinch pennies are going after the employee water cooler, but local municipal workers still have a place to hang out and talk about American Idol.