Increased property values save taxpayers money in Orange County
Final county figures show an 19 percent rise in assessed valuation easing the tax bite. Taxes fall in 11 towns and Newburgh, rise in five towns and Port Jervis, with Crawford Town posting the largest jump. Montgomery sees a drop in the true value rate, while equalization rates shift how tax burdens are shared.
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Trudy ‘'Ynan Goshen
Orange County
Newburgh
Middletown
Port Jervis
Crawford
Tuxedo
Montgomery
Lawrence D. Benton
Louis V. Mills
Orange
State Board of Equalization
Arry Isa Igre
Iequil
Enquil
Blooming Grove
Chester
Cornwall
Deerpark
Goshen
Greenville
ALLE
Hamptonburgh
Highlands Minisink
Monroe
LE Mount Hope
Newburgh Town
New Windsor
Wallkill Ilg
Warwick
Wawayanda
Woodbury
Ll Middletown
Bear tracks spotted near Mechanicstown church leaders home
Mrs Gladys Jarvis of 21 Fiat Ave reports bear like tracks in the snow behind her Mechanicstown residence. A bear may have walked through Thursday night, with tracks tracing from the yard to a driveway then along the street edge. Her grandchildren reassured her there is nothing to fear.
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Mechanicstown
Gladys Jarvis
Fiat Ave
Bonnie Johnson
Glenn
Jarvis
Arcadia Hills faces contested plan for more wells
In Goshen, Arcadia Hills developers seek to drill additional wells on a 287 acre Arcadia Road site to ease shortages. Neighbors say the wells drain adjacent properties and oppose without a bond. A DEC hearing on December 27 is contested with mixed notices from officials.
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Goshen
Arcadia Hills
Arcadia Road
William J. Flannery
Arcadia Hills Co., Inc
DEC
Flannery
O R may pass savings to customers with new fuel plan
Silver Lake Orange & Rockland Utilities officials said at a chamber breakfast that if allowed to burn domestic high sulphur oil and coal, savings could be passed to consumers. Floyd Cole noted future energy price rises could erase any gains, as O R has already secured a rate increase for low sulphur oil costs.
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Silver Lake
Orange & Rockland
Floyd Cole
Orange County Chamber of Commerce
Lloyd's Restaurant
Middle East
Israel
State Public Service Commission
Cole
O &R
Chamber
Patrick Chamber
Four snowmobilers fined in Middletown violations
Four men were ticketed at 3:15 am on Monhagen Avenue for snowmobile violations. All pleaded guilty before Judge Jerome Markovits. S. D. Osczepinski paid $25 for each charge including highway operation and reckless operation. Alten J. Wierzbicki paid $100 plus $25 per charge for highway, reckless operation, no registration and uninsured snowmobile. Edward R. Koseliak and Edward J. Wardeski Jr. also pleaded guilty to similar charges and paid $25 per charge.
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Middletown
Monhagen Avenue
Jerome Markovits
S. D. Osczepinski
Mountainville Road
Goshen
Alten J. Wierzbicki
RD 2
Edward R. Koseliak
Edward J. Wardeski, Jr
Prince St
Wierzbicki
Man Arrested Lived Elsewhere At Kiamesha Lake Bungalows
Morris Bungalows owners at Kiamesha Lake say no one named Julius Washington Johnson lived or worked at their cottages. Johnson was listed by state police as living at the bungalow colony and was said to be among those arrested in Sullivan County drug raids on Wednesday.
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Kiamesha Lake
Julius Washington Johnson
Sullivan County
Morris Horvitz
Johnson
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