When St. Luke’s Hospital President and CEO Allan Atzrott came before the Newburgh City Council on Jan. 23, he was there to pitch them on the Greater Newburgh Partnership’s efforts to make a positive impact on the city. Read more…

After serving for more than 28 months as acting city manager, the “acting” designation was removed from Rick Herbek’s title Monday night. Read more…

Michael Mele, a 26-year-old former Town of Newburgh man and a convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday just as his much-awaited jury trial was about to begin in Goshen. Read more…

Acting City Manager Richard F. Herbek has declared a snow emergency in the City of Newburgh effective at 6 p.m. Friday, January 20, 2012. A snow emergency automatically goes into effect at any time there has been an accumulation of snow and ice of 2 1/2 inches or more. Read more…

Newly elected Newburgh Mayor Judy Kennedy said she first started thinking about forming a series of Community Action Teams while walking around the city streets talking to residents during her recent campaign. Read more…

The Newburgh Town Board is tentatively planning a meeting in early February to seek public comment on the town’s East Coldenham Hamlet Plan, the draft of which has been formulated by VHB/Saccardi & Schiff, architectural and planning consultants. Read more…

Rowena Mariano stood forlornly Friday morning outside what only hours earlier had been her business, the TFS Asian Foodmart, in the Algonquin Plaza on Rt. 52 in the Town of Newburgh. All that was left was charred remains of what had been her family’s livelihood. Read more…

Family members of Town of Newburgh officials arrived at Town Hall on Jan. 2 to support their loved ones as they were sworn in for another term of office. Unexpectedly, they found themselves wedged in among two dozen or more people who were there for a very different reason – to protest a gentlemen’s club being erected on Route 9W. Read more…

Sunday brought a New Year – a new look – and new hope for the City of Newburgh as Judy Kennedy was sworn in as the city’s latest mayor at ceremonies at the Newburgh Activity Center before a crowd of about 125 people. Read more…

New Year’s Day and the days leading up to the start of 2012 were anything but a holiday for City of Newburgh police. Officers were called to a newly reopened bar at South Lander Street and Benkard Avenue at 2:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day after reports of fights between armed combatants. Read more…