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Landslide destroys Catskill home
A Catskill home was destroyed by a landslide, according to the American Red Cross. The landslide happened around 8:30 Tuesday evening at 5525 Cauterskill Road, they said. The Red Cross is now giving food, clothing and shelter to three people who lived in that home. They are also providing emotional support.
Volunteer group of nurses pay tribute to colleagues with creation of Hudson Valley Nurses Honor Guard
The group call themselves the Hudson Valley Nurses Honor Guard and travel to six Hudson Valley counties including Westchester, Orange, Dutchess, Putnam, Sullivan and Ulster, to attend funeral services and living tributes for nurses.
Pine Plains Resident Rich Tamburrino Voted Top Nurse
Critical care nurse Rich Tamburrino, of Pine Plains, was named the 2024 Top Nurse of the Year at a celebratory dinner on May 1, hosted by Hudson Valley Magazine. Tamburrino stood out among 20 recipients of the magazine’s Excellence in Nursing Awards for his significant impact on patient care. A panel of judges, consisting of instructors from Mount Saint Mary’s College School of Nursing, selected the honorees.
Chronicles: The Night the Mountain Fell
Norman Osofsky was sound asleep. Earlier that evening during the summer of 1952, he set his alarm to rouse him at 5 o’clock, when he would begin his chores and the morning milking on the family dairy farm in Boston Corner, N.Y. Afterwards he would board the school bus for the ride to Roeliff Jansen Central School, where he was a sophomore.
Art Gallery to Close in Ancram
After three years and exhibitions featuring 30 artists, Bob Bachler and James Kennedy are closing their Surface Library gallery next to the Ancram post office. This weekend the final show, “Imperfect Dreams,” features cyanotypes and palladium prints by the Gallatin-based artist and photographer Christian Mitchell. In 2017, partners...
Sojourner Truth statue to be exhibited in Kingston, Newburgh
NEW PALTZ – “Sojourner Truth: First Step to Freedom, 1826,” a bronze statue of the 19th century civil rights activist with deep Hudson Valley roots, will be temporarily exhibited at Kingston City Hall later this year, and then a site in Newburgh that will be named at a later date, before being installed permanently on the SUNY New Paltz campus in 2026.
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