On Thursday, March 4th, Citizens Foundation President Nancy Proyect submitted to following comments to the MTA Board on proposed service cuts on Metro-North's Port Jervis and Hudson lines. The Orange County Citizens Foundation is a private, nonprofit ...

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, the Office of Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange and the Orange County Citizens Foundation will co-host a presentation focusing on significant women in Orange County’s history and in modern times. Tow ...

Walk down Main Street in the Hudson Valley today and you will see empty storefronts and businesses struggling to stay open. Move a little further out of town and you’ll find brand new houses on three-acre lots for sale and empty strip centers. Is it just ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will sponsor a hike of Storm King Mountain followed by a picnic at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall on Sunday, October 18th. This is a third in a series of hikes that the Citizens Foundation has hosted s ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will honor artist and environmentalist Shawn Dell Joyce with the 2009 Seligmann Award. Ms. Dell Joyce will receive the award at the Citizens Foundation's Annual Meeting, on the grounds of the historic Seligmann Homest ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation will host a breakfast forum at its headquarters in Sugar Loaf on Wednesday, July 1st featuring MetroNorth Railroad President Howard Permut. The topic will be MetroNorth initiatives and service in the region. This ...

M. Justin Rider of Newburgh was named to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Orange County Citizens Foundation in Sugar Loaf. Rider is an associate attorney with the law firm Rider, Weiner & Frankel, P.C., where his primary areas are corporate and muni ...

True to form, the Orange County Citizens Foundation has found another hidden gem in our own backyard. Jeanne MacDonald, a music teacher in Minisink Valley school district by day and cabaret singer by night, will present “Come Back to Me: A Tribute to Pegg ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation is presenting a conference April 6th to discuss what types of infrastructure and services green industry need, how to meet state and federal regulations, and zoning codes that incorporate energy efficiency. The public ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation is urging community leaders and residents of local towns, cities and suburban areas to utilize the economic slowdown as an opportunity to evaluate how they would like to effect change and make great places in their co ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission's Fort Montgomery State Historic Site will host a lecture and presentation of historical works by Colonel Red Reeder and Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper on Thursday, March ...

The Board of Trustees of the Orange County Citizens Foundation opposes the Ravitch Commission’s recommendation that a mobility tax be levied upon Hudson Valley employers to pay for the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) capital projects or operational ...

The Orange County Citizens Foundation is seeking input from County residents as to charts, studies, and statistics they would like researched for publication in the non-profit organization's first update of its enormously popular 2007 Orange County Qualit ...

The impact of the aging baby boom generation will have broad-based effects, even locally. "They will factor immensely in the future of our county," said Nancy Proyect, President of the Orange County Citizens Foundation. "That is why we focused our lates ...

Two new Board Trustees have been announced by the Orange County Citizens Foundation in Sugar Loaf: Cornwall on Hudson resident Howard Protter, Esq., and Monroe resident Michael M. Murphy, P.E. Mr. Protter is Managing Partner and CEO of Jacobowitz and Gu ...

“How many of you have children?” asked NYS Dormitory Authority representative Jodi Smits Anderson. Many hands in the audience of 230 went up. “Are they a benefit or a burden?” The attendees looked at each other. “Is green building a benefit or a burden?” ...

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall will host a Story Hour Saturday October 25 at 10am featuring a trio of children’s books by local author Mary Elizabeth Sergent. Each story interweaves West Point lore with the lives of the little rabbit, mous ...

On September 10th, the Citizens Foundation celebrated the opening of its 38th Annual Meeting at the Seligmann Estate in Sugar Loaf. At the same time, the Foundation opened its 2008 Cultural Exhibit, Read All About It: The Lives and Works of Orange County' ...

An Afternoon with Frank D. Gilroy on Sunday September 14 will launch the “live” component of the Orange County Citizens Foundation’s traveling exhibit, Read All About It: the Lives and Works of Orange County Authors. Mr. Gilroy, a Monroe resident, wil ...

“We’re inviting the public to join us for what promises to be a hilarious evening in Sugar Loaf,” said Susan Cayea, a Board Trustee of the Orange County Citizens Foundation. Susan has organized a Tapas Picnic friendraiser at 5pm at the Foundation’s Seligm ...