City council approves state funds for summer jobs in Newburgh
City council votes 3-0 to use 118000 state Crime Control Commission funds for summer jobs and recreation for youths in Newburgh. TLC Inc and New Hope Baptist Church youth group seek to run the program with city, St. Luke's Hospital, and Town of New Windsor involvement. Controversy over application process and agency roles prompts calls for collaboration.
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Newburgh
Crime Control Commission
TLC
Tender Loving Care) Inc
Clyde Sawyer
Tyrone Crabb
TLC Corp
Crabb
Sawyer
New York
Maurer
St. Luke’s Hospital
New Windsor
Leroy Wilson
Corliss
Crime Commission
Schermerhorn criticizes United Presbyterian Church
New York state senator Schermerhorn accuses the United Presbyterian Church of aiding Angela Davis supporters and Communists. He cites a dismissed murder case involving Black Panthers and calls the church’s defense fund allocation an endorsement of dissent against the U.S. government. He urges Presbyterians to protest the funding decision.
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Albany
United Presbyterian Church
Davis
Schermerhorn
Presbyterian
Angela Davis
United Presbytery
Shaw condemns UDC land cost claim for Newburgh project
Newburgh City Councilman George J. Shaw Jr accused Mayor George F. McKneally of hogwash over land cost concerns for a proposed 1.5 million dollar UDC office building at Liberty and Broadway. Shaw insists the project should proceed at the original site and cites a 300000 dollar price as negligible per square foot.
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Newburgh
George J. Shaw, Jr
George F. McKneally
State Urban Development Corp
UDC
Liberty and
Broadway
Shaw
Moe Kreise
Lower Broadway
Jules Kurtz
Del Pizzo blasts CSEA leaders at state meet
Middletown State Hospital union leader Philip Del Pizzo condemned CSEA leadership in Albany for not backing an imminent June 16 strike. He warned the chapter heads that a mass walkout could occur and urged unity to resist job cuts. Local presidents cited possible layoffs and staffing concerns as triggers for action.
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del Pizzo
CSEA
Albany
Civil Service Employer Association
Middletown State Hospital
Middletown
Philip del Pizzo
Holiday Inn
Times Herald- Record
Theodore C. Wenzl
Tessier
Tessler
New Hampton
Rush
Bush
Walden building owner sues. assessment cut amid case
Norwood Tillson, owner of a Main Street building housing Viking Theater, a barber shop and Times Herald-Record office, sues Walden to lower a $22,500 village assessment. Town assessor Douglas Stickles reduced the figure to $17,500 after Tillson filed suit. Tillson aims to drop to $4,600 while noting a 50,000 sale value implied by the 35 percent equalization rate. attorney Gerald Jacobowitz says some village assessments are incorrect.
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Walden
Montgomery
Viking Theater
Times Herald-Record
Norwood Tillson
Orange County Supreme Court
Tillson
Douglas Stickles
Main Street
Stickles
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Robert Corliss
mid-Hudson
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Peterson
Commission
George J. Shaw Jr
Theodore W. Maurer
East End
Marion Romaine
Romaine
McKneally
By Edmund Klein
Ottaway News Service
United States
McK
Mary Anne McEnery
Hampton
Otisville
Masonoti
Ney
Cornelius Rush
Greenhaven
Valley National Bank
Valley National
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