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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, March 7, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 10
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
PUBLIC AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
New Windsor Town Board, 7 p.m.,
Town Hall, 555 Union Ave., New Windsor.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
Newburgh City Council Work
Session, 6 p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
MONDAY, MACH 12
Newburgh City Council meeting. 7
p.m. City Hall, 83 Broadway.
Newburgh Town Board meeting, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 1496 Route 300, Town of
Newburgh.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14
Town of New Windsor Planning
Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 555 Union Ave.,
New Windsor.
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Judy Kennedy is honored
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The city was reeling from major tax-
rate hikes following the bungling of the
city courthouse project. “People were
furious and into this hopeless situation,
she stepped into the void and she had a
message,” said Mark Carnes.
“’We’re not going to keep fighting and
attacking and keep ripping each other
apart,’” he said, paraphrasing Kennedy.
“That was her first message.” The next
message was equally important, he said.
“’It’s not what I’m going do, it’s what
you’re going to do and I’m going to help
you do it,’” said Carnes, again citing the
mayor. “She brought us together and
said... fix the problems.”
“It’s about us and what she has taught
us,” he said. “That we have to work
together to do great things.”
A long way from Idaho
Kennedy, who was frail from her
year-and-a-half-long battle with cancer,
addressed the gathered guests. “I don’t
know if there are words in my heart or in
my head to thank you enough for all the
prayers that have gone out, for all of you
that have been supporting me,” she said,
recounting friends doing dishes, cleaning
her house and shoveling her driveway
during her illness.
“What I’m really saying is those are
the kind of people that are in Newburgh,”
she asserted. “Those are the kind of
people that change a city, because there is
heart here. There is connectedness… I’ve
lived in a lot of places, you just don’t see
that everywhere.”
Kennedy was born in Pocatello,
Idaho, located along the Oregon Trail.
According to her professional biography,
Kennedy’s family struggled financially
when she was child. She cared for her
three younger brothers while her parents
worked. From this she learned early
lessons in “managerial responsibility,”
her biography reads. “She’s an Idaho
potato!” shouted Terri Vargas in one
humorous moment that evening.
As the mother of four boys, she
was a homemaker for many years.
Kennedy owned her own bakery and
eventually put herself through college
to earn a bachelor’s degree in business
administration. She went on to work for
the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, as
a manager and consultant for Hewlett
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