Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) back issues from August 2007:
Lease disagreement pushes Port Jervis, N.Y., eatery to close after 16 years.
Aug 02, 2007
Mid-Hudson economy.
Aug 05, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Scott Aug. 5--NEW YORK -- Upstate, downstate. One term conjures images of rural living, bitter winters and economic doldrums. The other: New York City and its suburbs, choking traffic and the bustle of global finance. In the middle sits the mid-Hudson, ...
Riders asked if they'd use new toll lane.
Aug 06, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 6--WEEHAWKEN -- The Port Authority has distributed 38,000 surveys to people who use the Lincoln Tunnel regularly to gauge their willingness to pay a premium to avoid the rush-hour crawl through the tube. The 20-page survey, which the Port ...
Proposed water park difficult to get off ground, developer finds.
Aug 07, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 7--Before Goshen, there was Woodbury. Before Woodbury, there was Chester. Before Chester, there was a missile silo near Lake Placid. All are places where Liliana Trafficante has proposed building a water park in ...
'Worst' local bridges.
Aug 07, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Scott Aug. 7--Here's a road sign you won't see while crossing into the mid-Hudson: Now entering the state capital of crumbling bridges. While Orange and Ulster only account for 5 percent of the state's major spans, the counties are home to 8 percent ...
First day of free parking in Orange County.
Aug 07, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 7--The first morning of free parking at Orange County's park-and-ride network came and went without incident yesterday: everybody found a place to park and everybody got a seat on a bus. But commuters and Short Line suspect their relief, that ...
Economic development highlighted at Orange County, N.Y., chamber event.
Aug 09, 2007 ... Byline: Kristina Wells Aug. 9--MIDDLETOWN -- Economic development is the key to revitalization. So say Orange County's three city mayors. And yesterday at the Orange County Chamber of Commerce breakfast the mayors of Port Jervis, Middletown and Newburgh ...
Chester parking lot reaches capacity with new free service.
Aug 10, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 10--CHESTER -- The Chester lot has quickly reached capacity in this first week of free parking at the state's park-and-ride network, but ample space is still available in Goshen, Monroe and Central Valley. Albert Allgood, who uses the 89-space ...
Orange County Choppers family fights fraud accusations.
Aug 10, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 10--POUGHKEEPSIE -- The first family of Orange County Choppers claim they did nothing wrong when they sold the assets of the family's other business from one Teutul son's company to another's, then had the first son's company file for bankruptcy. ...
Groups aims to control development at Middletown, N.Y.-area airport.
Aug 11, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Randall Aug. 11--STEWART AIRPORT -- Even its harshest critics concede Stewart International Airport is going to continue to develop. But an ad hoc group of environmental and other citizens' groups hopes to at least control that development enough so ...
The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y., Business Intelligencer column.(Column)
Aug 12, 2007 ... Byline: Doug Cunningham Aug. 12--On the leading edge of the life of an entrepreneur -- so leading edge that supplies are stored on the kitchen table and around a small apartment -- are Jack Scholl and his wife, Michele. Their product is called Fashion Snapz. In ...
Medical supply firm gets new warehouse in Wallkill.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 13--TOWN OF WALLKILL, N.Y. -- Complete Medical Supplies has purchased the former Ball Corp. warehouse on Wes Warren Drive. The 60,000-square-foot building sold for about $3.5 million, and Complete has moved its distribution business into ...
Medical center employee warned about allowing smokers in yard.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Kristina Wells Aug. 13--The last time Robert Thorpe checked, he lived in the United States. Land of the free. Home of the brave. Thorpe doesn't feel very free lately. Not when his employer, Orange Regional Medical Center, denies him his vice -- ...
Bridge inspectors come to Orange.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 14--FORT MONTGOMERY -- The special inspections that Gov. Eliot Spitzer ordered of the state's 50 deck-truss spans after a bridge of the same design collapsed in Minneapolis came to Orange County yesterday. Engineers from the state Department of ...
Matamoras, Pa., fire department gets temporary permit for flea market.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Ashley Kelly Aug. 15--MATAMORAS, Pa. -- The Matamoras fire department has been granted a temporary permit by zoning officials to resume its weekly flea market. The flea market has been closed since June 22, because it was being operated in a residential zone ...
Supercomputer hones forecasts.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Douglas Cunningham Aug. 16--Chinese weather forecasters will use an IBM supercomputer built in Poughkeepsie to beef up the accuracy of weather forecasts and air-quality predictions for the 2008 Olympics. The new computer is an IBM System p575 using POWER5+ ...
PATH riders to get train updates.
Aug 17, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 17--The Port Authority and NBC Universal have reached a seven-year agreement that will deliver next-train technology to PATH riders -- along with a douse of old-fashioned advertising -- at no cost to the agency. "It's a model agreement for ...
Teen headed for basic training 'pulled off the impossible' by graduating.
Aug 17, 2007 ... Byline: Ashley Kelly Aug. 17--PORT JERVIS, N.Y. -- It's the silver ring in his bottom lip, the baggy jeans that hang off his rump, and his long blond hair that get the locals talking about Donald Leonard. Some told him he would amount to nothing and be stuck in Port ...
Florida, N.Y., gas station lures motorists with low prices.
Aug 17, 2007 ... Byline: Matt King Aug. 17--Next time you're Florida way, try to have an empty tank -- a little old-fashioned American capitalism has pushed gas prices to the lowest level in Orange County. Ever since the QuickChek opened on Main Street a few weeks ago, the Valero and ...
Rail link to Stewart explored.
Aug 19, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 19--Metro-North Railroad has studied the feasibility of building a rail link between Stewart International Airport and New York City three times since 1971, and only now is it prepared to advance the idea. The timing is no accident. ...
Derek Osenenko joins Record as new executive editor.
Aug 21, 2007 ... Byline: Douglas Cunningham Aug. 21--MIDDLETOWN -- Derek Osenenko, the former editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal and more recently the chief of Gannett News Service, yesterday was named executive editor of the Times Herald-Record. Joe Vanderhoof, Record president and ...
Orange County, N.Y., affordable apartment complex offers rare find.
Aug 21, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 21--WAWAYANDA -- It is perhaps the rarest housing find in the mid-Hudson: homes that are new, affordably priced and available for rent. Regan Development's Horizons at Wawayanda is such a find, a 107-unit affordable apartment complex to ...
Bankruptcy Court gets a new home.
Aug 22, 2007 ... Aug. 22--POUGHKEEPSIE -- Yesterday was moving day for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A Finnegan's Moving & Warehouse Corp. truck idled on the sidewalk just outside the courthouse on Church Street, with another parked nearby. While Judge Cecelia Morris held court down the ...
Port Jervis, N.Y., mourns 'Jerry the sign painter'.
Aug 23, 2007 ... Byline: Ashley Kelly Aug. 23--PORT JERVIS -- Gerald "Jerry" Walters' spirit lives on in Port Jervis through his work. Walters, 70, died Tuesday at his home. Walters spent most of his time painting signs, many of which are still displayed throughout the ...
Orange County sifts through options in transportation plan.
Aug 25, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Aug. 25--NEW WINDSOR -- By 2035, six- and eight-lane interstate highways could dominate Orange County's transportation network -- or not. But the long-range plan that the federal government requires urban counties to revise every four years is now ...
'Made in U.S." matter to kids?
Aug 26, 2007 ... Aug. 26--As parents search the racks for clothes for their children, do they really care where they are made? Or does price hold more weight in the final decision? Aside from price, how easy is it to find clothing made in the United States versus other countries? We decided to ...
Billboard shows casinos' bad side.
Aug 29, 2007 ... Byline: Victor Whitman Aug. 29--WURTSBORO -- The newest casino billboard on Route 17 doesn't say "Casinos Mean Jobs!" "Jobs Now!" or any of the other slogans that pop up on glossy billboards on the way to Sullivan County. "What's the point of living in the Catskills ...
Equity loans get harder to obtain.
Aug 29, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 29--If you've had trouble finding a home equity loan lately, there are two possible explanations. Either you've been looking in the wrong place, or you're not considered a good candidate. Since the subprime loan meltdown ...
Eckerd under a cloud: Rite Aid buy could bring closings.
Aug 30, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 30--Since it bought Eckerd and Brooks in June, Rite Aid has been closing stores piecemeal throughout its territory. This past weekend, it shuttered the former Eckerd on Route 300 in Vails Gate, folding customers' prescriptions into the ...
Housing prices turn chilly.
Aug 31, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Aug. 31--Home prices in Orange and Dutchess counties fell this spring for the third quarter in a row, according to a new report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Prices slipped 0.46 percent from the first quarter of the ...
Tycoon's massive Livingston Manor, N.Y., development plan hits logjam.
Aug 31, 2007 ... Byline: Victor Whitman Aug. 31--LIVINGSTON MANOR -- Wall Street tycoon Andrew Krieger's massive residential and hotel/spa development is on hold. His plans for 500 acres are stalled. But he has been busy of late. In between frequent jaunts to India, the financier who ...
