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Popular Area Café Facing Uncertain Future Popular Area Café Facing Uncertain Future
Popular Area Café Facing Uncertain Future The owners of a popular new restaurant in the area who have been fighting to stay open after complaints from neighbors got a reprieve of sorts during a zoning meeting. Café Con Leche, a Puerto Rican eatery located in Wappinger at 10 Main St., in a building that was built in 1852, and has been home to another cafe and a deli and catering outfit, will be allowed to stay open until at least Oct. 21, after the Town of Poughkeepsie Zoning Board tabled the issue until the next meeting. The café, which formerly operated out of a stand on the platform of the New Hamburg train station, was hit with …

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by Kathy Reakes
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Feds Sue Woodcliff Lake Over Orthodox Worship Center Rejection Feds Sue Woodcliff Lake Over Orthodox Worship Center Rejection
Feds Sue Woodcliff Lake Over Orthodox Worship Center Rejection The government filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against the borough of Woodcliff Lake over its denial of an Orthodox Jewish congregation's attempts to build a new worship center in town. The borough and its zoning board violated the “Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act” when it denied Valley Chabad zoning approval to build a house of worship on its property at the corner of Werimus Road and Woodcliff Avenue, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Borough officials also “took steps to keep it from building a house of worship anywhere else in t…

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by Jerry DeMarco