Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY) back issues from October 2007:
Natural gas line will bring industry to New York towns, O&R Utilities says.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Oct. 1--WAWAYANDA, N.Y. -- Orange and Rockland Utilities is building a natural gas pipeline to nowhere. Everyone involved swears this is a good thing. The utility company is spending $510,000 to install about three-quarters of a ...
Utility builds natural gas pipeline 'on spec' for future industry.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Oct. 1--WAWAYANDA -- Orange and Rockland Utilities is building a natural gas pipeline to nowhere. Everyone involved swears this is a good thing. The utility company is spending $510,000 to install about three-quarters of a mile of ...
Orange, Dutchess counties lead New York for jobs, drop to middle nationwide.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Levensohn Oct. 2--The good news? When it comes to creating and keeping jobs, Orange and Dutchess counties make up the best-performing metropolitan area in New York state. The bad news? The Orange/Dutchess area ranked in the ...
Middletown, N.Y., real-estate office merges with nearby firm.
Oct 05, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Tresslar Oct. 5--MIDDLETOWN -- Courtney Duff & Associates, a local real estate and development firm, has merged with another area brokerage. The resulting brokerage will operate as Prudential One Duff Realtors, company executives said. The deal brings ...
Milking the business: Local dairies make more by innovating.
Oct 24, 2007 ... Byline: Adam Bosch Oct. 24--CALLICOON -- Our local dairy farmers have long been trapped in financial hardship. The cost of feed, fertilizer and gasoline continues to rise, while profits from milk remain unsteady, said Joe Walsh, executive director of the Cornell ...
Critics say Florida housing project a risk to frogs, water supply.
Oct 24, 2007 ... Byline: Matt King Oct. 24--FLORIDA -- A housing project slated to be built near the shores of Glenmere Lake is drawing the ire of environmentalists who say it would trample habitat for the endangered northern cricket frog and threaten the village's main water supply. ...
No fed funds for Woodstock museum.
Oct 24, 2007 ... Byline: Victor Whitman Oct. 24--BETHEL -- A senator from Oklahoma has squashed $1 million in federal funds for billionaire Alan Gerry's Woodstock-era museum in Bethel. In a rare rebuke of a pet project, senators, including Democrats, pulled monies last week earmarked ...
Florida district seeks $4.8M.
Oct 24, 2007 ... Byline: Matt King Oct. 24--FLORIDA -- A $4.8 million capital improvement plan for the Florida School District will be on the ballot on Dec. 11. If voters approve the borrowing, the money will be used for about 90 repairs and renovations at Golden Hill Elementary, the ...
Middletown, N.Y., airport to improve road, parking ahead of plan.
Oct 25, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Oct. 25--NEW WINDSOR -- Stewart International Airport will get an unexpected Christmas gift: an expanded parking lot and an extended circulation road in front of the terminal. "We expect to award the construction contract by the end of October and ...
Developer buys site in Lloyd, promises to build upscale retail.
Oct 25, 2007 ... Byline: Jeremiah Horrigan Oct. 25--LLOYD -- A New Jersey development venture has bought the 34-acre Central Hudson warehouse site across from the new Lowe's Home Center on Route 299 and South Street, promising to build an upscale retail "experience" there. The site ...
Small businesses testify in Montgomery, N.Y., to hard business climate.
Oct 26, 2007 ... Byline: Meghan E. Murphy Oct. 26--MONTGOMERY -- Small businesses looking to build in the Hudson Valley face high property taxes and health and liability insurance costs. In the Town of Montgomery, the climate is driving away new development and causing some businesses to fold. ...
Lloyd, N.Y., council eager for proposed retail outlets to arrive.
Oct 26, 2007 ... Byline: Jeremiah Horrigan Oct. 26--LLOYD -- While no one's saying exactly which retail outlets are headed for Central Hudson's warehouse site across from the new Lowe's Home Center at Route 299 and South Street, one thing appears clear: The Town Board won't put up many obstacles ...
Pascack riders get more trains.
Oct 29, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Oct. 29--SPRING VALLEY -- Until yesterday, the Pascack Valley rail line in Rockland County was always a poor cousin to the Port Jervis line in Orange County, with a paltry 23 trains on weekdays and none on weekends. Now, the tables have turned with ...
Family health centers look to grow in mid-Hudson area of New York.
Oct 29, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Brooks Oct. 29--NEW PALTZ -- More than $7 million is pouring into family health centers in the mid-Hudson. The money is linked to the acquisition of the former Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute by the former Institute for Urban Family Health in New York ...
Interest in land surrounding Stewart International Airport soars.
Oct 29, 2007 ... Oct. 29--The land grab began nearly a year ago, in the weeks after word came that Stewart International Airport would be changing hands. Developers and speculators locked up key sites in and around the airport, betting on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to usher in ...
Orange County, N.Y., to begin land-use study as development heats up.
Oct 30, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Randall Oct. 30--STEWART AIRPORT -- The debate over development around Stewart International Airport didn't end two years ago. True, a 2005 settlement between the state and environmental groups ironed out how 1,600 acres would be preserved forever as ...
The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y., business briefs column.(Column)
Oct 31, 2007 ... Oct. 31--STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL OFFICIALS CELEBRATED yesterday the completion of Montgomery Manor, an affordable senior housing development in the Village of Montgomery. The manor is comprised of two three-story buildings providing 87 apartments, all but one of which are already rented, ...
Farm bureau likes new bill.
Oct 31, 2007 ... Byline: Matt King Oct. 31--The new federal Farm Bill isn't the bonanza local farmers were hoping for, but it is starting to get them attention historically reserved for the giant growers of corn, soy beans and other staples. "I don't see how New York could lose right ...
New owner, new era: Port Authority expert looks into Stewart's future.
Oct 31, 2007 ... Byline: Judy Rife Oct. 31--Jameson W. "Jim" Doig, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and professor emeritus of politics and public policy at Princeton University, is the author of what is widely regarded as the book on the Port ...
Teachers plan to strike.
Oct 31, 2007 ... Byline: Doyle Murphy Oct. 31--GOSHEN -- Teachers at 10 Catholic High Schools through the Hudson Valley and New York City said last night that a recent contract proposal isn't good enough and they'll prepare for a strike. Members of Lay Teachers Association voted 123-9 ...
