Mamakating Democrats faced total defeat Tuesday night, when their incumbent town supervisor Bob Fiore lost his re-election bid to Bloomingburg fire commissioner Harold Baird.
Also swept into office were council candidates Regina Saunders and John Moul.
Saunders, a former town councilperson who lost two years ago to Teddy Brebbia, narrowly beat Ron Weathers this time around.
Superintendent of […]
Wurtsboro held an unscheduled meeting on 2009-10-20, postponed from the week before. It took place at the same time as the Mamakating town board meeting, but we managed to cover both simultaneously and get recordings of each.
The regular Wurtsboro Village business was over in a few short minutes. The remainder consisted of a joint session […]
YouTube videos have been uploaded for the 2009-10-20 Mamakating town board workshop meeting, in six consecutive 10-minute segments.
The first four segments contain a proposal by town highway superintendent Richard Johnson, for the purchase of heavy duty trucks. The exchange is noteworthy because of the expensive burden which these capital expenditures place upon the municipal budget. […]
The Sullivan County District Attorney’s race between Glenn Kroll & Jim Farrell raises interesting issues. Case in point is the distribution of several dozen bottles of “Krol” brand vodka to consenting adults. While technically within the letter of the law, such campaign tactics give the appearance of impropriety, because booze tends to cloud people’s judgment.
Many are unaware that a […]
The September village meetings for Wurtsboro & Bloomingburg both lasted about 7 minutes. Bloomingburg then spent about an hour planning for the upcoming mid-October Fall festival, featuring a parade and “haunted house. Wurtsboro’s public comment went on for an extra 20 minutes with former mayor Bob Whitehead discussing problems at the Horizons senior citizens home […]
This exhibition brings together the work of nine extraordinary artists, each expressing the excitement and beauty of our relationship to and responsibility for the flora and fauna that surround us.
The artists use painting, sculpture and photography to explore the lands we have chosen to preserve, and the animals with which we share the planet. The depth of the art […]
Yesterday morning’s tragic house fire — which took the lives of three young school girls on Peenpack Trail in Deerpark — left the mid-Hudson Valley at a loss for words. Today all eyes fell on the Times Herald-Record, trying to make sense of it all. A very well-written article grappled with the community’s loss in […]
This is probably the first time in years that a group of men aren’t hanging around Dino Morelli’s property for the purpose of urinating and/or defecating. Morelli lives next door to the Park & Ride lot at Quickway Exit 113 in Wurtsboro. After DOT built the parking area there, full-bladdered travelers transformed his driveway and […]
A snail crawls Tuesday morning across the tarmac outside Super G-Mart in Wurtsboro, followed by a trail of slime. Stay tuned for an update revealing who is the slowest lawyer in town — after my pending house closing, or the end of time — whichever comes first.
Call him a groovy guy. U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey has joined the twitterati, and is now tweeting up on twitter. His page can be found at http://twitter.com/mauricehinchey . As of this posting, Congressman Mo (Democrat - NY-22) has six followers, including yours truly. Hinchey is also following three other twitterers: @nytimes, @whitehouse, and @algore .
Mo […]
Last week, Bennett Weiss was busted Sept. 8th for violating Goshen Village’s protest ordinance, which requires a permit before airing one’s views in public. The story made headlines in the local daily Times Herald-Record. Weiss was protesting the Goshen Central School District for not showing president Obama’s speech to students. Residents questioned the issue at […]
Tuesday night’s symposium at Bernie’s Holiday Restaurant in Rock Hill saw a room full of happy frackers. Sponsored by the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development (funded with your tax dollars), the evening was spend advocating natural gas drilling with the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) method.
As always with this site, the article you are reading […]
A free screening of the new documentary “Water Under Attack” will take place tonight at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Narrowsburg, NY. The film is directed by Pennsylvania activist Josh Fox, and shall be shown on a unique mobile outdoor movie theater created by artist Dan Brinkerhoff. Showtime is 7:45 pm.
The documentary concerns a controversial underground […]
Below are the YouTube versions of the Goshen Jazz Festival 2009 Promo, in three ten-minute segments.
Part 1 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtpOocqUs8
Part 2 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAmQjyoUjM
Part 3 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4MGSEo1KRE
Read the Flier: http://goshenpubliclibrary.org/pdfs/jazz_fly.pdf
The Pine Bush Area Public Library will be holding its annual vote for trustees and the 2010 budget on September 15, 2009. Trustees running for election are: Peter Eriksen, Kristine Boyle, Raymond Zwart and Lisa Cannon. The proposed budget for 2010 requests an additional $8,000 to support the expansion of services to our patrons. […]
[Note: I’m just throwing the links up for now, with quick descriptions I wrote on the YouTube posts. These are three clips from the Sept. 1st workshop meeting, almost 30 minutes worth of content: discussing the Phillipsport bridge repair, the Wurtsboro Hills lake foreclosure, and reducing speed limits along certain town roads. Also, I’m not […]
Above, the boardwalk atop the Rosendale railroad trestle, undated photo. Anyone who speaks of the recent tax foreclosure without discussing unlawful denial of several bungee jump business ventures, is only providing half-truths. Those who claim the Wallkill Valley Railroad Company no longer exists, is ignorantly (or maliciously) slandering title. The scam is similar to the […]
We have a clip from the Aug. 18th Mamakating town board meeting. Councilman Teddy Brebbia took councilwoman Judy Young to task for an alleged political announcement which occurred on a recent youth group bus trip. Young denied any impropriety. The exchange was followed by supervisor Bob Fiore making remarks about the town swimming pool. Finally, […]
The Wurtsboro & Mamakating bicentennial events are scheduled for this weekend. Hopefully the weather will hold out.
Friday, August 28: Kick-Off Party for County Firefighters’ Assoc. begins at 6pm. Antique Firematics Apparatus Competition at 7pm. The Rausch Brothers perform at 9pm.
Sat. Aug. 29: Sullivan County Firefighters’ Association Parade & Bicentennial Celebration. Line up at 1pm with […]
Some unusual things are happening in the Village of Goshen, the seat of nearby Orange County, revolving around their new $32 million wastewater treatment plant, mandated by the state several years ago.
Under advisement from Goshen’s controversial water czar Jim Ulrich (Alpine Environmental), the local landfill was moved to a new site, to make room for […]
Helene Goetschius of the Mamakating Historical Society delivered a presentation on the early settlers of Mamakating, Thursday night, Aug. 20th, at the Old Schoolhouse museum in Summitville. Several dozen people attended, including two town councilmen.
Much discussed material comes from the Mamakating chapter of James Eldridge Quinlan’s History of Sullivan County, 1873. Little else has been […]
Tuesday Aug. 11th was an interesting day in Sullivan County law enforcement. I found myself in Mamakating town court challenging a traffic ticket for expired inspection sticker. After three hours of waiting, the charge was dismissed. Most of the unhappy motorists did not fare so well, settling for plea bargains costing each defendant hundreds of […]
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