Town of Blooming Grove's Councilmembers were administered their oath of office by Town Clerk, Darlena Decker Left to right: Supervisor Rob Jeroloman, Highway Superintentendent Wayne Kirkpatrick, Deputy Supervisor Cathy Acevedo, and Councilmen Frank Malloy, John Stegenga, John Byrnes, Simon Schwrartz, and Steven Amante Town of Blooming Grove Board members took their oaths of office last evening and, aside from 2 issues requiring serious discussion, they proceeded to tackle

Seeing-Eye Puppy raising Party at Chester's Tractor Supply Store A group of new Seeing Eye Puppy Dog Raisers got together in the big warehouse room at Tractor Supply in Chester.  Their purpose- to make friends in the Seeing Eye Dog Community, and start the exhilarating and somewhat daunting process of spending a year and a half to socialize these new pups, both to other dogs and to small and large groups of people.  If the laughter and camaraderie was any sign of how these ne

At the Courier Journal Headquarters, we are very proud to share the official analysis of our increase in readership during the year of 2025. As a relatively new media resource we are particularly proud of several factors that are shown below. Of particular importance and smile-making is the overall 2025 readership number of 64,866 times that primarily local community members not only took the time to go to our website and read important news, but stayed at the site for almo

This event is at SUNY Orange in Middletown and it's a wonderful live children's theatre event for kids 3-9 years old. Only $5 admnission & SUNY students free.

The Town of Chester's 300-acre Industrial Park was developed almost 40 years ago by V. Paulius and has contributed much in the way of tax benefits to the Chester Community, housing several large commercial entities and about a dozen smaller ones. It currently has several warehouses that are not in use. Federal ICE Officials are Considering Chester Industrial Park Warehouse(s ) as one of about 23 sites where they want to house a total of about 80,000 immigration detainees . A