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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
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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…
