Hudson Valley pulls out, and ESGs are in danger
- January
- 17
We found out yesterday that the Hudson Valley region decided not to host the Empire State Games, which were scheduled to be held in Poughkeepsie this July. Now it appears the Games may be canceled altogether, according to Hudson Valley coordinator Frank Intervallo.
The state has yet to decide what to do, but obviously this is a major blow. The Games take the good part of a year to plan, so how would they proceed now?
You can check out Jake’s story from today’s paper. Let me know how you feel.
Posted by Josh Thomson on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 7:39 pm | 
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
