A textbook place for poultry

Last week the city of Newburgh was invaded by bears.

Well, one bear.

This week the city dealt with an even scarier threat from the animal kingdom.

Chickens!

Poultry patrol nets 14 in city

Lots of reasons Newburghers keep chickens

CITY OF NEWBURGH — Joyce Kyles knocks on the door of the house, and a woman answers.

"Good morning, hi," says Kyles, of Newburgh Animal Control. "We hear you have chickens."

The woman denies it but grants permission for a search of her backyard. Kyles is joined on this mission by Melissa Veraldo of Blooming Grove Humane Society and Deputy Gina Sangricoli, an animal cruelty investigator for the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Together, the three have begun a route across Newburgh in search of chickens. It's against city law to keep chickens, and the women have a list of a dozen addresses where they suspect people are harboring illegal birds.

Not exactly a deleted scene from Hitchcock’s The Birds.

Read all of Doyle Murphy’s story in the Times Herald-Record.

Comments

[mds]

For reasons known only to my subconscious, and possibly my therapist, I initially read "Newburgh" as "New Paltz." Whereupon I was dumbfounded by the notion that New Paltz would actually ban chicken-keeping. Newburgh, though, makes sense. They're such squares.