Kamryan Murtaugh flew high at a Buffalo competition. Local 11-year-old vaults and balances her way to regional gymnastic competition Kennetts Gymnastics in Goshen currently only has five girls on the Gold Xcel team level. It was a tough weekend for the team... Sports 11 May 2022 | 06:07
Explore 18th century daily life at Hathorn house on Founders’ Day Friends of Hathorn will present a Founders’ Day living history event on the grounds of the Old Stone House Inn on May 21.... Entertainment 10 May 2022 | 09:55
The trio of new Goshen Eagle Scouts, left to right, Daniel Hartley, Samuel Lieneck, and Alexander Canale Three Goshenites rise to Eagle Scout rank with earthy work Only 5% of Boy Scouts of America achieve Eagle Scout rank, says Joe Canale, assistant scout master and generation leader... Entertainment 19 Apr 2022 | 05:16
Photos by Daria Bonomini ‘The Great Day’: Add Ukrainian Easter traditions to your holiday Easter, or Velykden (“The Great Day”), is celebrated in Ukraine with an array of traditions. Easter in Ukraine follows the... Local News 05 Apr 2022 | 12:04
Amber Vitoulis and the impressive sash of badges she’s collected along the years. (Photo provided) Don’t worry, they’ve got Thin Mints: Supply chain shortages hit the Girl Scouts It’s finally March, and you know that that means. No, I don’t mean March Madness or Saint Patrick’s Day. Ladies and gentlemen,... Local News 16 Mar 2022 | 11:51
New book explains Kiryas Joel as product of Jewish history and American politics Since 2003, David Myers, an authority in Jewish history at UCLA, has visited the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel dozens of... Home 16 Feb 2022 | 11:11
Carl Corcoran at the memorial to the Rev. Mychal Judge OFM, chaplin to the FDNY and son of immigrants, at the priest’s ancestral home in Ireland. Judge was killed on Sept. 11, 2001. ‘In the face of unfathomable loss, we rose as one’ I was home from America barely two years when the world changed, on that sunny Autumnal morning (afternoon Irish time). We... Columns 27 Aug 2021 | 12:13
‘Silencing ... the essence of our American ideals’ I am responding to your positive presentation of Assemblyman Schmitt’s widely discredited extreme right wing position on... Letters to the Editor 08 Aug 2021 | 04:27
Pictured from left to right are: Jennifer Dellova (parent and president of Washingtonville School Board), Nicole Hewson (parent and Middletown board member), Colleen Doyle (concerned citizen), Kevin Gomez (attorney/parent/Middletown school board member), Assemblyman Colin J. Schmitt, Joe Minuta (Orange County legislator), son of Ciara, Ann Marie Aviles and parent Ciara Irrazary of Cornwall. Photo provided by the office of Assemblyman Colin Schmitt. Critical Race Theory ‘rewrites history ... and provides false narrative on our most impressionable youth’ Assemblyman Colin J. Schmitt, a Republican from New Windsor who represents the towns of Wawayanda, Goshen, Hamptonburgh,... Home 03 Aug 2021 | 10:40
1908 Ford Model T. Source: Wikipedia They made America I am the co-author of “They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators” and a... Letters to the Editor 13 Jul 2021 | 01:55
‘The Democrats are using this legislation to make sure ... they can grab and hold on to power for good, and people are falling for it’ While some may use the blocking of H.R. 1, the so-called For the People Act, which would be better described as the Democrat... Letters to the Editor 05 Jul 2021 | 01:14
‘I can no longer be neutral’ I did not always feel strongly about eliminating the filibuster, the Senate rule which requires 60 votes to advance legislation... Letters to the Editor 28 Jun 2021 | 07:02
Now hiring. Where are the people? NOW HIRING. Where are the people? The signs are posted in store fronts, lawns and bill boards for all to see, Now Hiring.... Letters to the Editor 09 Jun 2021 | 03:41
Carl Corcoran. Photo by Brendan Lyon/ImageBureau A welcome call from Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day On this past St. Patrick’s Day, many of the longtime listeners to the Frank Truatt Morning Show on WTBQ Radio (AM 1110/F... Entertainment 30 Mar 2021 | 03:05
Pledging allegiance to the truth The opening words of The American Crisis written by Thomas Paine in 1776 could easily have been written today: “These are... Letters to the Editor 16 Feb 2021 | 11:49