Highland Falls, N.Y.—DeeDee Moreno, a big-hearted craft store owner, walked down Main Street in the village of Highland Falls after the water had ceded and checked on everyone she saw.  Nearly nine inches of rainfall on Sunday, July 9, turned the once babbling Highland Brook into a roaring river, which swept the central business district…

The Orange County government asked a judge on June 9 to extend a stay on the relocation of illegal immigrants arranged by New York City, according to a court filing.  If granted, the request—formally called a preliminary injunction—will make the ban effective throughout the county’s lawsuit against the city, according to county attorney Richard Golden.  A…

After two failed attempts in Wallkill and Monroe, the developer of a world-class dinosaur park now sets his eyes on a piece of 140-acre land in the Town of Montgomery. The property sits at the intersection of Route 17K and Barron Road and is zoned commercial. Neil Gold, the New Jersey-based developer, said he first had…

Orange County took New York City to court a day after the city’s Mayor Eric Adams bused dozens of illegal immigrants to a Newburgh hotel. The lawsuit filed on May 12 argues that Adams has no legal authority to run a temporary shelter in the county; it demands the court immediately reverse the transfers and…

Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus declared a State of Emergency on May 8 in response to a New York City plan to bus illegal immigrants to upstate hotels. The executive order prohibits hotels, motels, and other short-term rental facilities in the county from housing any illegal immigrants, or asylum seekers, arranged by the New York…

During the April 19 State of the County address, Executive Steve Neuhaus presented a positive financial shape highlighted by booming sales taxes, reduced tax levy, and a growing fund balance.  If he was to name one financial woe, it is the policies and laws out of Albany that shift undue burdens to local taxpayers, Neuhaus said in…

According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 383 children who crossed the border illegally by themselves were sent by the federal government to live with sponsors in Orange County, New York, in the past year.  The number of unaccompanied minors placed in the county grew from under 50 in 2020…

Over a hundred residents learned how the Chinese communist regime extended its long arm to threaten U.S. communities at a seminar in Warwick, New York. On the same day of the event, on March 22, a cyberattack out of mainland China was said to hit one of the largest health care providers in Orange County and held its system…

The legislature of Orange County, New York, unanimously passed a revised spending plan of close to $75 million in federal COVID-19 dollars on Mar. 2.  The money was allocated to the county under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)—a $1.9 trillion federal pandemic stimulus package signed into law two years ago.  By law, the funds…