Wallkill News

It isn't a three-day weekend in quite the traditional sense. I will have my usual days off Friday and Saturday, and then I will return to work That's the name of a DEC promotion reminding people not to disturb fawns and other young wildlife.

A 13-year-old boy was charged with making a bomb threat Wednesday at the Wallkill School District's John G. Borden Middle School.

Fire fighters form Walden, Montgomery, Wallkill, and Coldenham responded to a 4 alarm fire at a strip mall located 2294 Rt 208 in Walden.

Students from Borden Middle School were evacuated Wednesday morning after a threat was made against the school, the Ulster County Sheriff's Department reported.

Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union's proposed acquisition of tiny MPO Federal Credit Union is the latest example of an ongoing trend in the world of financial cooperatives: bigger is better.

The lack of an American flag within sight on Wednesday didn't keep the Orange County Industrial Development Agency board from reciting its usual premeeting Pledge of Allegiance.

The Orange County Industrial Development Agency's meeting on Wednesday started like they always do, with reports from the chairman, the chief financial officer and others, including Executive Director James O'Donnell. O'Donnell, who resigned last week as deputy county executive, took his usual seat beside IDA Chairman Robert Armistead, and later ... (more)

Hill-Hold Farm Museum, 128 Route 416, Campbell Hall, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. May 18-19. Hosted by the 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry, "The Red Neck Ties." Talk to the soldiers about their lifestyle as you tour the Union and Confederate camps.

A competency hearing was underway Tuesday in Orange County Court for a Middletown man charged with fatally shooting his ex-con neighbor at the corner of Cottage Street and Wickham Avenue.

U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated.

A Poughkeepsie man is being charged with vehicular homicide after he struck and killed a motorcyclist on state Route 9W Thursday night, said Town of Lloyd Police.

Four teens and a 20-year-old man were arrested Wednesday morning after reportedly attempting to confront a homeowner on Old Unionville Road in the town of Plattekill and then throwing rocks at the person's home.

This week, with my family by my side, I announced that I will be retiring as County Executive at the end of my third term, December 31, 2013.

Psychiatrists have asked for new, updated testing on a Town of Wallkill man who's facing murder charges in the 2009 death of his father.

The overnight manhunt in the village of Maybrook is over. Montgomery Police found their man at 10am Monday morning.

A Cortlandt motorcyclist who hit 140 mph smashed his bike into two police cruisers on Sunday following a high-speed chase through Orange County, state police said.

The Democrat running for Orange County clerk declared her candidacy at a news conference held in the shadow of the Middletown Department of Motor Vehicles office she used to run.

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.