Engineers ask censure of Kearing over Blooming Grove affair
Compro the Committee of Concerned Professionals asks County Executive Louis Mills to censure Samuel J. Kearing Jr deputy health commissioner for interfering in Blooming Grove matters and questions a tentative offer to have an unlicensed engineer certify work. The group asks 10 questions and warns of censure if unanswered.
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Ron Gallagher
Goshen — Compro
Orange County
Louis V. Mills
Samuel J. Kearing Jr
Blooming Grove
Kearing
Health Department
George Kleess
Kleess
Middletown
Robert L. Markovits
Compro
Resa
Markovits
Nepera avoids layoffs by switching to Apap production
Nepera Chemical Co. plans a rapid shift to Apap to shield 25 workers in one building from layoffs as sales of a current product slump. Union talks with Local 810 aim to cancel vacations and reassign shifts, keeping most of the 240-member workforce employed through July.
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Harriman
Nepera Chemical Co., Inc
Robert H. Kundin
Apap
Nepera
Kundin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Kandin
Suspect arraigned in murder case tied to Newburgh bartender
Jerry McNeil was arraigned in Orange County Criminal Court on a gun possession charge connected to the May 26 killing of Sylvester J. Chivattoni behind the Angus Tavern in Newburgh. He pleaded innocent and is held without bail at Orange County Jail as ballistics link the .38 revolver to the shooting. Police say he was arrested June 6 at his 102 Lander Street home.
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Goshen
Jerry McNeil
Newburgh
Orange County
McNeil
Abraham
Isseks
Sylvester J. Chivattoni
Angus
William St
Lander St
Newburgh Police Hire First Minorities Since Court Action
Six graduates six officers Julius Beckwith Gary Tunnell Jesus Velez Herman Rosario Luis Juncosa Enrique Flores joined Newburgh Police Dept as the city’s demographics shift. The hires come under Judge Whitman Knapp’s control over police hiring amid a civil rights suit alleging Civil Service test bias.
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Gary Tunnell
Jesus Valez
Julius Beckwith
Herman Rosario
Newburgh
Poughkeepsie Police Academy
Jesus Velez
Luis Juncosa
Enrique Flores
Whitman Knapp
Rivera trial recess extended in Newburgh police notes dispute
The Wilfredo Rivera murder trial remains recessed as defense and prosecution review newly disclosed Newburgh Police Department statements from a board of inquiry into the shoot-out that killed officer William M. Robinson. No mistrial motion was filed and no date change beyond Wednesday was announced.
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Goshen
Wilfredo Rivera
Newburgh
Howard Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld
David S. Ritter
Abraham S. Isseks
Isseks
Newburgh Ptl
William M. Robinson
Rivera
Robinson
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Poughkeepsie
Wayne Heikkila
Everett S. Landers
Beckwith
Knapp
Mid-Hudson Valley Legal Services Project
Isseks’ Chambers
Ritter
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