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Orange County Woman, 25, Killed In Route 17 Crash
A 25-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash after losing control of her vehicle and hitting a tree.
Orange County resident Rachael Angelo, of Circleville, in the town of Wallkill, was killed around 10:20 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, on Route 17, in Goshen, said New York State Police Trooper Steven Nevel.
Angelo was driving a gray Volkswagen went for "some reason" she lost control, went off the left shoulder of the highway, and crashed into a tree, Nevel said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Former Middletown Mayor Gertrude Mokotoff Dies At 100
Former Middletown Mayor Gertrude F. Mokotoff, a 66-year area resident, died at the Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill on Wednesday, Oct.17. She was 100 years old.
The daughter of the late Abraham and Anna Fox, she was born on August 20, 1918, in Brooklyn. She later married her first husband, Reuben Mokotoff, a cardiologist from Manhattan, where they lived until she talked him into moving his practice to Middletown in 1954.
A professor at S.U.N.Y. Orange in Middletown teaching microbiology and lab tech, Mokotoff, served as Alderwoman, Common Council President and eventual…
