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Posted January 14th, 2010 by newburghedinfo

If you are on the Newburgh School District's robo-call system you probably received a message this afternoon announcing that after school activities have been cancelled for today. An ordinary person might wonder why this is occurred.

Apparently there has been an incident over at the High School and the building was in "lock-down".

The Times Herald-Record has appended some information to a story about a stabbing which occurred yesterday:

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"Four students arrested in fights at NFA Thursday"
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Newburgh Police Chief Eric Paolilli held a press conference for noon on Thursday. He said police had already arrested four students at Newburgh Free Academy, the district's sole high school. Lots of police have been added to district schools to deal with fallout from the stabbings, he said.

The front page of the THR site says: "district to close all its school Friday in response to 'emergency crisis'".

official word

On January 14th, 2010 Anonymous says:

As of 3:20pm http://newburghschools.org has an announcement:

In response to an incident in the City of Newburgh last night the Newburgh Enlarged City School District will be cancelling all after school activities for today, Thurs., January 14, 2010. At this time, NECSD officials are working in conjunction with the City of Newburgh Police Department to ensure the safety and well being of all NECSD students and staff. The safety of our students and staff remains the top priority.

In addition, the NECSD will be closed tomorrow, Fri., January 15, 2010 in an effort to keep the unrest within the City of Newburgh from filtering into the schools. This includes all after school activities and scheduled events. School will resume as scheduled on Tues., January 19, 2010 following the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

other coverage

On January 15th, 2010 Anonymous says:

There is some additional coverage in a story at the Poughkeepsie Journal

And a short snippet of video from the police press conference from HVMediaGroup: is available here.