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How Many Politicians Does it Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

Monday, October 5, 2009

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 […]

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Whitehead comes in last for Wurtsboro village mayor

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The results of the three-way mayoral race in Wurtsboro village are in. Incumbent Michelena “Micky” Maher was re-elected by a wide margin. According to the Times Herald-Record, Micky got 203 votes, compared to Paul Champagne’s 28, and Bob Whitehead’s 24.

Barbara Piper beat out Robert H. Hawkes for village trustee, by 211 votes to 34.

That’s a […]

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Fun With Monotype Script

Friday, March 6, 2009

Inspired by Bob Whitehead’s imaginitive “Babe Ruth” campaign poster (due to be unfurled next week in Wurtsboro’s three-way mayoral race), we decided to have a little bit of fun with the baseball theme. The cursive typeface, sometimes called “Ballpark Weiner,” is actually a knockoff from Monotype Script Bold,  standard with the Windows XP operating system. […]

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Wurtsboro to Narrow Canal Street with Quitclaim

Monday, August 18, 2008

For many years, Sarah Avery has been trying to settle problems with her land title. The cloudy issue involves old maps for the village of Wurtsboro, which marks a “paper” street that never existed in real life.

In addition, Canal Street — surveyed on official documents as being 88 feet wide — is in actuality only […]

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Bob Whitehead Sees Red Over Blacktop Scandal

Saturday, July 26, 2008

The public comment section of July 15th’s Mamakating Town Board meeting was fiery. Former Wurtsboro mayor Bob Whitehead, age 78, spoke his mind at length about recent media disclosures surrounding last year’s hasty Sullivan Street repaving project.

Hear Bob Whitehead’s full comments here: http://midhudson.info/special/R080715_bobwhitehead.mp3 (2008 July 15, Mamakating Town Board meeting) [MP3, 7.7MB] [Can’t play it? […]

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