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Hudson Valley businesses counting on feds for crucial Sandy aid

Boatmaster Ian MacKay of Piermont and Deborah Brenner

Photo credit: Angela Gaul | Boatmaster Ian MacKay of Piermont and Deborah Brenner of Tappan clean up outside of Cafe Portofino restaurant at 587 Piermont Ave. in downtown Piermont. (Oct. 31, 2012)

When Hurricane Sandy knocked out his electricity in November, chief executive Jon Prusmack used a generator to keep the lights and computers running in his offices at DHS Systems, an Orangeburg company that manufacturers field shelters for the military. But work on his 120,000-square-foot assembly floor ground to a halt.

"We lost production for a week here. We had no power because we can't...

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