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Orange County moves Warwick polling site due to excessive heat
Orange County's Board of Elections moved a polling site in Warwick June 24 due to the excessive heat. Originally voters in two districts, 11 and 18, were supposed to vote at the St. Ignatius Church, 75 Main Street in the Village of Florida. Fatal fire: Goshen community mourns loss of father, two sons in 'devastating' house fire Due to extremely high temperatures and for the safety of voters and poll workers, that polling location was moved to the Florida Senior Center, 1 Cohen Drive in Florida. Republican voters in the town are choosing a candidate for district 2 in the Orange County Legislature. Mike Randall covers breaking news for the Times Herald-Record and the Poughkeepsie Journal. Reach him at mrandall@ This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: Orange County NY moves polling site due to excessive heat
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03-04-2025
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These are the top 10 NY counties for small businesses, according to SmartAsset
Dutchess, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties all made the top 10 in a ranking of the best counties for small business owners in the state compiled by the financial technology company SmartAsset. SmartAsset recently published its ranking of all counties in all 50 states and how they stack up when it comes to being a good place to be a small business. In New York, SmartAsset said Ulster County ranks as the third-best county for small business owners, followed by Dutchess County in sixth place, Orange County in eighth place and Sullivan County in ninth place. SmartAsset said it considered five factors to determine which counties were the best places for small business owners. Those factors were the percentage of people in a county with small business income; the percentage of total income coming from small businesses; the amount of tax a potential resident must pay on their income; the five-year change of small business ownership rate; and the five-year change of small business income. To determine how attractive a region is for small business owners, SmartAsset compared the number of tax returns that reported small business income to the total tax-filing population of the region. Next, they compared the total amount of small business income to the total income reported in each region. Then they measured the change in those variables over a five-year period. According to SmartAsset, small businesses are typically incorporated as pass-through entities, which means that the business owners pay income taxes on the company profits rather than the company itself paying income tax. More: REAL ID deadline is approaching. What to know, how to apply in mid-Hudson Valley Because of this, income taxes can play a major role in determining the financial success of a small business. To determine income tax burdens across counties, SmartAsset used the national median household income and then applied relevant deductions and exemptions before calculating federal, state and local income taxes for each location. Those five factors were then indexed and equally weighted to yield SmartAsset's Small Business Index. The places with the highest Small Business Index scores are the places that ranked highest in the study. Ulster County's index score was 50.3, followed by Dutchess County at 47, Orange County at 46.33 and Sullivan County at 45.52. Columbia County, which is just north of Dutchess County, ranked at the top of SmartAsset's list of all counties in the state, with an index score of 54.71. Columbia County Yates County Ulster County Greene County Suffolk County Dutchess County Seneca County Orange County Sullivan County Delaware County Miami-Dade, Florida. Gaines County, Texas. Bristol Bay, Alaska. Broward, Florida. Monroe, Florida. Sully, South Dakota. Collier, Florida. Hand, South Dakota. Hopkins, Texas. Young, Texas. Mike Randall covers breaking news for the Times Herald-Record and the Poughkeepsie Journal. Reach him at mrandall@ This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: These NY counties are the best for small businesses, SmartAsset ranks Sign in to access your portfolio
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15-03-2025
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Orange County home listings asked for less money in February - see the current median price here
The median home in Orange County listed for $499,450 in February, down 0.1% from the previous month's $500,000, an analysis of data from shows. Compared to February 2024, the median home list price increased 0.1% from $499,000. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Orange County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at Orange County's median home was 1,938 square feet, listed at $262 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 3.6% from February 2024. Listings in Orange County moved steadily, at a median 81 days listed compared to the February national median of 66 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 80 days on the market. Around 292 homes were newly listed on the market in February, the same number of new listings from February 2024. The median home prices issued by may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales. Across the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area, median home prices rose to $766,889, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 1,473 square feet, at a list price of $538 per square foot. In New York, median home prices were $659,974, a slight increase from January. The median New York home listed for sale had 1,559 square feet, with a price of $414 per square foot. Throughout the United States, the median home price was $412,000, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,791 square feet, with a price of $227 per square foot. The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu. This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: Orange County home listings asked for less money in February - see the current median price here
