By Taylor Sterling

Orange County Partnership dinner this past week honored Jonah Mandelbaum and Donna Applegate for their many years of building and offering affordable housing. The amount of people they have assisted cannot be counted numerically, it’s more like the movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life.”  You don’t know how many lives you have touched until you look back and Jonah and Donna have helped thousands. There are not enough accolades for these two amazing people who just want to simply say, congratulations and thank you for all you have done and continue to do. In attendance was Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus, former Senator, Mike Martucci, President of Orange Bank & Trust, Michael Gilfeather, Director of Tourism and Film, Amanda Dana, and 600 of our closest friends. Also honored was Hank Gross of Mike Martucci’s Mid-Hudson News. Also very well deserved for all those years reporting the news.