Judy Rife
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Ridership declines sharply on trains, buses
The metropolitan region’s transit agencies are registering dramatic declines in ridership as telecommuting surges and closings accelerate in → Read More
'Fresh start' in works for Stewart; new operator, better marketing planned
NEW YORK — The Port Authority’s commissioners will be asked to approve part of a new five-pronged strategy to attract more air service to New York Stewart International Airport when they meet Thursday.Huntley Lawrence, the Port Authority’s aviation director, is scheduled to discuss the strategy in presenting a resolution that recommends hiring a new company to operate, maintain and manage… → Read More
Final call for Norwegian Air at Stewart
STEWART AIRPORT — Norwegian Air’s final flight from New York Stewart International Airport will depart Saturday the same way its first → Read More
CBD hemp's unpleasant smell making the rounds in the mid-Hudson
The smell of CBD hemp is in the air — and how!In parts of the mid-Hudson where farmers are growing hundreds of acres of cannabidiol hemp for → Read More
Survey results offer food for thought for struggling farmers markets
ITHACA – The results of a survey about why people shop – or don’t shop – at farmers markets will give market managers and vendors → Read More
New Paltz apple farmer Dressel Nikles to lead state trade group again
FISHERS — Directors of the New York Apple Association have re-elected Sarah Dressel Nikles, of Dressel Farms in New Paltz, as chair of the 15- → Read More
Labor bill revisions address farmers' concerns
ALBANY — Farmers reacted cautiously Monday to 11th-hour revisions in the farm labor bill that the state Legislature is expected to adopt before it adjourns Wednesday.“It’s not perfect, but it’s much better than it was, much better,’’ said Paul Ruszkiewicz, president of the Orange County Vegetable Growers Association and a county legislator.The revisions, the result of negotiations among the… → Read More
Coach USA sold to private equity firm; no changes imminent
Coach USA, the parent company of Short Line and other bus operations throughout the country, has been sold to a Los Angeles, Calif.-based private equity → Read More
Coach USA starts daily NYC-Sullivan casino bus run
NEW YORK CITY — Coach USA/Short Line and Resorts World Catskills announced this week that the bus company has started daily express service between the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the casino resort in the Town of Thompson.Buses will leave the Midtown terminal every day at 10 a.m. for the two-hour trip to the casino. Return service will leave Resorts World at 4:30 p.m. but customers have the… → Read More
Exit 131 construction to cause summer-driving headaches
CENTRAL VALLEY – Visitors heading to old and new attractions in the Route 17 corridor will discover this summer what local people already know: There is simply no skirting the construction at Exit 131.Now in its second year, the state Department of Transportation’s $150 million reconstruction of the Route 17 exit at Route 32 and the Thruway remains a constantly moving tableau of men and machines… → Read More
State seeks consultant for Route 17 expansion study
ALBANY — The state is advertising for consultants to conduct an eagerly awaited new study of traffic conditions on Route 17 and recommend potential solutions for alleviating congestion on the four-lane gateway to Orange and Sullivan counties. Prospective consultants have until Wednesday to respond to the Department of Transportation’s request for expressions of interest. The DOT anticipates… → Read More
Program helping young farmers buy land
Farmland protection goals in the Hudson Valley are shifting from keeping valuable agricultural land out of the hands of developers to putting it in the → Read More
Ex-Orange legislator, SAC chairman Wright dies at 87
NEW WINDSOR — James Wright, the former chairman of the Stewart Airport Commission and a long-time Orange County legislator, died Tuesday. He was 87.“He was a passionate leader when it came to the airport,’’ said Louis Heimbach, who succeeded Wright as SAC chairman in 2016 and whose tenure as county executive overlapped Wright’s service in the Legislature. “He always maintained the airport had a… → Read More
Controls sought for pest threatening Black Dirt onions
PINE ISLAND – Preliminary research has begun to identify controls for the allium leafminer, the new pest that poses a threat to Orange → Read More
Metro-North receives grant for PTC communications testing
NEW YORK — Metro-North Railroad has received a grant of up to $2.3 million to support testing of positive train control radio communications.The grant, from the Federal Railroad Administration, will help Metro-North establish a lab to investigate radio spectrum issues along the Northeast Corridor rail line and ultimately enable PTC to operate reliably for all railroads that use the rail line.… → Read More
Traffic snarls likely as old Tappan Zee Bridge is demolished
Highways in three states are sporting variable-message signs warning that a stretch of the New York State Thruway will close temporarily Saturday to accommodate the demolition via explosives of a section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge.State police will begin stopping traffic around 9 a.m. on the Thruway, adjacent entrance ramps and roads in both directions between Nyack in Rockland County and… → Read More
DEP eyes aqueduct leaks beneath Rondout Creek
HIGH FALLS — The New York City Department of Environmental Protection will enlist property owners around High Falls in a study to evaluate apparent leaks from its Catskill Aqueduct and design repairs.The DEP and the U.S. Geological Survey plan to approach about 20 property owners for permission to install monitoring equipment in their wells and perhaps drill some new ones to gather additional… → Read More
Book chronicles history of dairy farms in Orange County
GOSHEN – A retired teacher who grew up on a dairy farm has written a book about the history of the industry in Orange County.The author, James Baird, said he wanted “to help document what the dairy business has meant to the county before it disappears.”The 157-page softcover, “Orange County, N.Y., Dairy Farms Past and Present,” was published by Royal Fireworks Press in Unionville in October and… → Read More
State will convert current I-84 exit signs to mileage-based numbers
First, they did the Taconic State Parkway. Next they’ll do Interstate 84, and then they’ll do the Hutchinson River Parkway. → Read More
Norwegian Air's struggles impacting Stewart
Norwegian Air, the airline that has lifted New York Stewart International Airport's fortunes so spectacularly, hasn’t done so well with its own → Read More