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Breea Williams of Roosevelt, N.Y., an Accounting major at Mount Saint Mary College, works at the Newburgh Free Library as a Tax-Aide preparer on Wednesday, March 23. Photo by Lee Ferris. Even with the extension in place, Tax Day is still on its way.…

New York State recently awarded a $1 million Higher Education Capital (HECap) matching grant to Mount Saint Mary College for the construction of a Community Engagement and Wellness Center on campus. Under this program, New York State will contribute…

Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students and faculty have been helping local communities to fight against COVID-19 through contact tracing and, recently, by administering COVID-19 vaccines.  Contact tracing Over the summer, about a dozen Mount Nursing…

Through Mount Saint Mary College’s St. Valentine Food Drive, students, faculty, and staff donated $3,242 worth of food to help feed local people in need.   The virtual drive yielded more than 600 food items, which were sent to the St. Mary Friary and…

Mount Saint Mary College has received a grant for $425,000 from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to be used in the creation of a multipurpose community wellness center.   The Mount Saint Mary College Community Engagement and Wellness Center will…

About 50 Mount Saint Mary College Nursing majors are administering COVID-19 vaccinations to doctors, nurses, and other staff at four local hospitals.  The effort has been supervised by Lynette DeBellis, a Mount Nursing instructor and a 1985 alumna of…

The 23rd Annual Making Healthful Decisions Conference, “Tools for Growing Resilience for Schools, Health and Human Services, and the Community,” recently gave area professionals training and new ideas for creating a better community. The conference was…

Mount Saint Mary College closed on the sale of the Desmond Estate last week, officially putting the 26-acre property in the care of the Town of Newburgh.  The town has revealed plans to continue using the estate for educational programming, and as parkland…

COVID-19 is this holiday season’s biggest Grinch – but just like that grumpy green grouch, it won’t stop Christmas from coming, said Fr. Gregoire Fluet, campus chaplain and director of the Mount Saint Mary College Campus Ministry.  As of Tuesday, December…

November 2020 – Join Mount Saint Mary College online for its 11th Annual Gala on Wednesday, December 9 at 7 p.m., celebrating the students, employees, and alumni who have worked to keep their communities safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.…