Middletown Times Herald Record - Fri Nov 20

Dean and Debra Palen's iron grip over the Ulster County Health Department created years of distrust, inappropriate cash management practices and extensive inefficiencies that put the public's health and safety at risk, according to an investigation released Friday by the Ulster County Comptroller's Office.

Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record - Fri Nov 20

Mass layoffs at some of the region's largest employers - IBM and Pfizer - will make a bad situation worse as the jobless economic recovery continues.

Poughkeepsie Journal - Fri Nov 20

KINGSTON: An Orange County man who was convicted last month of fatally shooting his girlfriend in Milton was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in state prison.