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Thu Feb 23 2023

Perfume-like odor raises alarm in Hudson Valley. What we know about it

Main Street in Cornwall, NY on Sunday, December 5, 2021. Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress launched a new initiative to strengthen the Hudson Valley's main streets. KELLY MARSH/FOR THE TIMES HERALD-RECORD

Numerous people reported smelling a strange odor reminiscent of chemicals or perfume in Orange County last week. The DEC and Orange County are investigating.

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A Feb. 4 drone photo shows portions of a Norfolk Southern Railroad freight train that derailed the previous night in East Palestine, Ohio.

Is Hudson Valley odor linked to Ohio train derailment? Experts say no

A probe of an unusual odor in the Hudson Valley has some New Yorkers worried it is linked to the Ohio train disaster's toxic plume. What to know

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Aaquil Powell photographed outside his New Rochelle home on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Powell had a traffic ticket dismissed after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Sensitive information blurred out.

NY driver ticketed for speeding. Now he wonders if the ticket was fake

Aaquil Powell believed he was wrongly ticketed by New York State Trooper Edward Longo in 2021. Longo was recently charged with writing fake tickets.

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Students change classes at Roosevelt High School Early College Studies in Yonkers March 2, 2022. Today marked the lifting of the state's mask mandate for schools after two years of pandemic education.

Students can graduate after failing Regents: Where your district ranks

From last June to this August, students who score 50-64 on a Regents exam can still earn graduation credit for the course. We checked early results.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul presents her executive state budget in the Red Room at the state Capitol Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Albany, N.Y.

Communities in Orange, Westchester receive revitalization grants

Three communities are getting grant awards from the state for downtown revitalization initiatives

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