Pine Bush News

Then there's the girl who hated school so much, she cut classes and skipped school to make sure she got suspended.

First, "the art kid" would skip high school to paint and party. Then he had to overcome a paralyzing nerve disorder in his hand that almost derailed him from of his dream of making movies.

A Pine Bush man was charged with driving while intoxicated, a felony, and his female passenger, also from Pine Bush, is in critical condition as the result of a two-car accident Monday on Route 302 in Bullville, Town of Crawford police said.

Baldwin Vineyards of Pine Bush was awarded a Double Gold Medal for its strawberry wine, and Warwick Valley Winery was awarded a Double Gold Medal for its grappa.

Scores of local victims of a disease they say makes them so weak they can't drive, think clearly or make tea without laying down are being denied insurance payments for treatment of that disease.

Friday found Joyce Jacobowitz Concors greeting workers and customers who've become friends over the 58 years since her father and her husband launched the Thruway Food Market and Shopping Center.

Regardless of what side of the sightings your view aligns with, fun certainly won't be foreign at the third annual Pine Bush UFO Fair.

The Mount Saint Mary College Choir will conduct its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Founders Chapel on the Newburgh campus.

It's remarkable enough that the kid you saw running track for Pine Bush High School, cutting local lawns and painting pumpkins in Bloomingburg could win the same film-making award as Spike Lee, "Book of Mormon" creator Trey Parker and "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis.

Henry Litsky, 12, a sixth-grader at Van Wyck Junior High School, won first prize in United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region's 2013 Touch-A-Truck logo design contest.