A bill would benefit upstate NY salt producers who say they're losing bids to foreign competitors. County highway departments are pushing against it.
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Thu Dec 15 2022

 

'Buy American' rock salt bill has highway heads warning of price hikes

Rockland County Highway Dept. Superintendent Skip Vezzetti, right, talks with a heavy equipment operator as he loads the plaws with salt in preperation of the impending Nor'easter snowstorm at the Rockland County Highway Department facility in New City on Wednesday, December 16, 2020.

A bill would benefit upstate NY salt producers who say they're losing bids to foreign competitors. County highway departments are pushing against it.

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Town of Poughkeepsie police vehicles were stationed outside a Courtyard by Marriott Monday where on Sunday a shooting resulted in one guest killed.
 

Accused Marriott killer arraigned additional charges

Roy A. Johnson has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Paul Kutz, the father of a Marist College student.

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A snow plow drives down Holmes Street in the city of Poughkeepsie, NY, on Friday, February 25, 2022.
 

Winter storm coming to Catskills Thursday into Friday

A winter storm could bring a foot of snow to the Catskill region and less to the south and east on Thursday and Friday.

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Bradley Sharp of Saratoga, N.Y., gets the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from registered nurse Stephanie Wagner on July 30 in New York. Sharp needs the vaccination because it is required by his college. Hundreds of college campuses have told students they must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before classes begin in a matter of weeks.
 

Purchase College reinstates mask policy amid surge of COVID, RSV, flu

The announcement came the same day New York City health officials recommended masking indoors and Rockland County ended its COVID dashboard.

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Nick Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer, was arrested on Dec. 19, 2016, and charged in a quadruple homicide in Orange County.
 

Feds no longer seeking death penalty against ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione

Former Briarcliff Manor police officer Nicholas Tartaglione's trial in a quadruple homicide is scheduled for March 13.

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Varsity 845 scores and schedules for the week of Dec. 12-18

The Varsity 845 high school sports scores, roundups and schedules for Dec. 12-18, 2022.

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Winter storm coming to Catskills Thursday into Friday

A winter storm could bring a foot of snow to the Catskill region and less to the south and east on Thursday and Friday.

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Ski resorts make needed investment in new lifts

Ski resort owners make much-needed investment in new lifts after three down seasons during COVID slowdowns.

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People for People: Grants help women struggling after injury, accident

The People for People Fund provided financial grants to two Orange County women struggling to make ends meet after an injury and a car accident.

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