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Mount Saint Mary College student Caitlyn Garrigan of Staten Island (right) and Rob Wakeman, associate professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Knight Summer Connections program, prune a peach tree at Newburgh Urban Farm and Food Initiative.  …

Mount Saint Mary College’s Together in Pink team (seen here) earned more than $2,000 for cancer research at last year’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. The team is looking to beat their 2023 total at the next walk, scheduled for Sunday, October…

Dr. Dana E. Crawford, a pediatric and clinical psychologist, will host Preventing and Repairing Cultural Misunderstandings” on Friday, Friday, September 27 at Mount Saint Mary College. She’s seen here speaking at another Desmond Center event, the Healing…

Members of the local community are welcome to discuss what they would like to see the Desmond Center provide at the upcoming community listening session on Thursday, September 26. Seen here, area residents discuss ideas for Desmond Center programing at…

Children between the ages of 5 and 13 can attend four swim classes at Mount Saint Mary College – one each Saturday – starting September 7.   Mount Saint Mary College is offering swimming classes for children ages 5 to 13 from Saturday, September 7 through…

Runners of all ages, get ready to taste victory (and confections) at Bishop Dunn Memorial School’s Sixth Annual Cupcake 5K Run/Walk on Sunday, September 15. The event, featuring a race for adults and another for children 10 and under, will be held at…

Incoming Mount freshmen in the college’s Knight Summer Connections program aided in a build for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh on Saturday, August 17. The students were joined by Mount mentor Brianne Thompson, director of the Office of Student…

After a successful pilot program last semester, a joint initiative of Mount Saint Mary College and the Newburgh Ministry once again gave Nursing students hands-on experience in educating real-world clients on mental health issues.  Linda Kelly, associate…

Left to right: Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students Kyra Hazzard and Bisi Akin, both of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Brittany Ubrich of Cold Spring, N.Y.   A joint initiative by Mount Saint Mary College and the Newburgh Ministry is giving Nursing students…

About 70 Mount Saint Mary College students in the course “Forms of Literature” took learning beyond the classroom by serving at the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley in Cornwall, N.Y. and the Downing Park Urban Farm in Newburgh, N.Y. The initiative was…