Orange County’s transparent accounting and financial practices benefit residents Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana and Commissioner of Finance Joel Kleiman are proud to announce that the County has once again been awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) [...]

May 13 is the deadline for applications for grants from The Women’s Leadership Fund (WLF) for projects designed to promote financial stability and independence and/or opportunities for women and girls in Orange County. Any Orange County 501(c) 3 nonprofit is eligible to apply for the grants to WLF, an initiative of United Way of the [...]

Wappingers Falls 6th Grader Designs Winning Logo for United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region’s Touch-A-Truck Event Pine Bush 6th grader takes 2nd place, Gardnertown 5th grader wins 3rd in logo contest for June 9 fundraiser at Orange County Fairgrounds Henry Litsky, a sixth grader at Van Wyck Junior High School in Wappingers Falls, won 1st [...]

As spring brings warmer weather and longer days, residents will begin venturing outdoors again. For those of us in the Hudson Valley, this can also mean the chance of exposure to deer ticks and the diseases they can transmit. Lyme disease continues to be the most common tick-borne disease in the region and a focus [...]

A Port Jervis man was arrested Wednesday when City Police recovered cash and heroin inside the man’s apartment. In an ongoing effort to control the city’s heroin sales, Port Jervis police executed a search warrant at an apartment at 18 Mechanic Street. 34 year old Daniel Dailey, a resides in the apartment was charged with [...]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County’s annual signature fundraiser, Bowl For Kids Sake is set to roll out on Sunday, March 24, 2013 from 12PM – 5PM at Bowling Time Lanes in New Windsor. But this fundraiser isn’t just about the bowling; gutter balls or strikes won’t matter as much as helping children and [...]

During the month of February 2013 New Windsor Police Detectives Lesley Pierri and Christopher Sager initiated an investigation after the parents of a 13 year old boy suspected their son being involved in a relationship with a 44 year old former substitute school teacher. The parents of the boy discovered inappropriate text messages on his [...]

The Orange County Grand Jury, Wednesday, cleared a Newburgh man of any charges in connection with a fatal shooting outside a City of Newburgh bar in October 2012. 21 year old Charles Alexander had been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death  of Justin Doctor which occurred on October 14, 2012 in the [...]

Eight Outstanding Women Recognized for Contributions to Community The mother-daughter duo of Dr. Michele Winchester Vega and Natasha Vega, co-chairs of the 2013 Tribute to Women of Achievement of Orange County event, announced this year’s Tribute honorees on behalf of the award’s host organizations, Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson and YWCA Orange County. “As [...]

Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana and Commissioner Richard L. Rose of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation are pleased to announce that the Friends of the Orange County Arboretum are offering two gardening classes in March, Landscape Design on Thursday, March 14 & Thursday, March 21, and Birds & Birdhouses for Kids on [...]