Disturbances close Newburgh junior highs prompt stay-at-home order
In Newburgh, North and South Junior High Schools were ordered shut to students next week after Friday racial disturbances described as isolated incidents by Acting Police Commissioner John McClellan. No arrests or injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Ludman
Newburgh
John McClellan
Edwin F. Klotz
Klotz
Leslie Tourville
North Junior High
John Suydam
South Junior High
Alfred DiCesare
DiCesare
McClellan
Sullivan supervisors blast Catskill study bill
Sullivan County supervisors criticized a Catskill Study Commission bill in a Saturday meeting. Assembly members Jean Amatucci and Maurice Hinchey backed the plan, while supervisors urged Amatucci to withdraw support. The bill proposes a 15 member commission with regional representation and state agency inclusion, to be chosen by governors and legislative leaders from 21 nominees.
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Jeffrey Page
Monticello
Catskill Study Commission
State
Jean Amatucci
White Lake
D-98
Maurice Hinchey
Saugerties
D-101
Sullivan County
Hinchey
Miss Amatucci
Seven County
Catskill
Clarence D. Lane
Windham
Lane
GOP
Iss Amatucci
Joseph Raffa
Neversink
Senate
Assembly
State Commissioners of Commerce and Environmental Conservation
Rivera defense seeks mistrial in Newburgh gunfight case
Wilfredo Rivera’s five week murder trial faces a possible mistrial after prosecutors failed to disclose two sets of notes from a Newburgh board of inquiry. The notes concern police conduct during the shootout that killed Patrolman William M. Robinson. Defense argues Brady v Maryland requires disclosure. Judge Isseks recessed trial until Monday for review.
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Tom Hundley
Goshen
Wilfredo Rivera
Orange County
Abraham S. Isseks
Newburgh
Police Board of
Howard Hirschfeld
Supreme Court
Maryland
David S. Ritter
Board of Inquiry
Ritter
Isseks
D.A
Hirschfeld
Ptl
William M. Robinson
Rivera
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Newburgh Free Academy
Sullivan
Whitelake
Fallsburg
Sam
Robinson
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