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Mahopac, NY
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Brewster Voters Reject School Budget; All Other Putnam Spending Plans OK'd
By just 119 votes, Brewster taxpayers defeated a proposed $99 million school budget on Tuesday. The vote was 808 against to 689 supporting next year's spending plan. The school district and Board of Education will now have to come up with a revised budget for a second vote before resorting to a contingency spending plan. Brewster voters, meanwhile, passed a ballot issue to borrow $754,000 and buy new school buses, by a vote of 835 to 660. In addition to passing their school budget, Mahopac voters gave the OK to borrow up to $1 million for new school buses Putnam Valley Schools were seek…
Mount Pleasant, NY
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Two School Buses Involved In Area Crash
About 20 students and a couple of adults are being evaluated following a crash between two school buses at the intersection of Route 311 and North Terry Hill Road in the Hamlet of Lake Carmel in the Town of Kent. No injuries were reported in the crash that occurred around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, officials said. Check back to Daily Voice for updates.
Newburgh, NY
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Bus Company To Lay Off More Than 160 In Orange County
More than 160 jobs face elimination at the end of June following the announcement that First Student Bus Company had lost its contract with the Pine Bush School District. The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification on April 3, which notified the state that 166 employees would be laid off as of June 29. The notice also said the Depot Street plant would close. First Student listed the “loss of Pine Bush School District contract to Birnie Bus” as the reason for the elimination of jobs. A media spokesperson for neither First Student or Birnie Bus were not available for co…
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Hero Driver Gets Students Off Burning Cresskill School Bus
CRESSKILL, N.J. — A bus driver got two students out of the vehicle before it erupted in flames Wednesday morning, authorities said. The Valley Transportation driver said he was traveling north on Knickerbocker Road when he observed smoke coming from the engine around 8:50 a.m., Cresskill Police Detective Charles Franke said. No injuries were reported, police said. He pulled over and exited the bus with two students, and all took shelter in the vehicle of a driver who had pulled to the side of the road, according to Creskill police. Police did not know which school the bus was headed to, Fr…
