The rock-solid team of Judy Kennedy, Curlie Dillard and Cedric Brown Monday night turned into a verbal rock fight with Councilman Brown questioning Dillard’s courage for abstaining on a key City Council vote to adjust the salaries of the fire chief and city engineer. Read more…

Danny Maniscalchi, the owner of Leo’s Pizza restaurants in Cornwall, Wappingers Falls and Newburgh, has added a little spice to the Town Supervisor race in Newburgh. Read more…

Residents living near Gloria’s Pub 151 on North Plank Road in the Town of Newburgh aren’t feeling very neighborly these days. They want the Town Board to put a halt to loud parties such as the one held recently. Read more…

Matteo Doddo, a longtime Newburgh resident and veteran school district administrator, has been appointed as the new executive principal of Newburgh Free Academy (NFA). Read more…

They call them Faith Builds – and they truly are. Four of what eventually will be a 24-home development on East Parmenter Street in the City of Newburgh were dedicated by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh Sunday. Read more…

A bomb threat was called into the Newburgh Free Academy (NFA) Main Campus on Tuesday, according to Kerry Butrick, community relations specialist for the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. Read more…

Newburgh Enlarged City School District administrators and Board of Education members received a round of applause and a standing ovation Tuesday evening when they announced that the 2013-2014 budget proposal would not require any school closures and would include full-day kindergarten. Read more…

They’ve approved more than $5 million worth of cuts in recent weeks, but as of press time, the Newburgh Enlarged City School District still needed to come up with an additional $3.2 million in order to adopt a budget that stays within the legal tax levy limit of 5.4 percent. Read more…

The description of a public hearing held by the Newburgh City Council Monday night contained an innocent enough typographical error, but as it turns out it was a prediction of things to come. Read more…

A new congressman is representing the Mid-Hudson region, but the issues and the anger have carried over from former U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey to his successor U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-18th. Read more…

Residents along Carter Avenue and adjacent roads in the Town of Newburgh, fearful of speeding drivers that put their lives in danger, have won Town Board approval for the installation of stop signs at Leslie Road and Brooker Drive. Read more…

Newburgh City Councilman Cedric Brown, saying he is “bothered” by raises granted to Fire Chief Michael Vatter and City Engineer Craig Marti over his objections, vowed Monday night to request an investigation by the New York State attorney general of a possible conspiracy by City Manager Rick Herbek and former City Comptroller Cheryl Gross. Read more…

Anyone venturing into Ted Doering’s Motorcyclepedia Museum on Lake Street in the City of Newburgh will instantly realize that its creator thinks big – really big. Read more…

The developer of Parke Lane at Newburgh, a 160-unit luxury apartment complex on Stewart Avenue, has asked the Newburgh Town Board for some “consideration” in reducing recreation fees required by the town. Read more…

“Newburgh wasn’t always like this,” she said. So begins “The Battle of Newburgh,” a 1962 film produced by the National Broadcasting Corporation and the subject of an upcoming forum to be hosted by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands and Mount Saint Mary College. Read more…