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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Whose lawsuit is it?
The Land Master lawsuit, and subsequent $561,000 in fees, has become a hot potato this election season.
The lawsuit has a long history, spanning the service three supervisors and eight different board members. The comprehensive plan challenged was developed under Al Valk and his board then adopted by Susan Cockburn and the first board members with [...]
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Get informed: Montgomery candidate bios
Find out more about your local candidates and look up your polling place at our town election page.
Republicans outspending Dems in campaign
Republican-backed candidates have outspent and raised more than Democratic candidates for the Town of Montgomery supervisor and board seats. Thus far, Republican candidates have reported raising $17,600 to the Democrats $10,152.
The town Republican committee, which is backing candidates including Supervisor Mike Hayes, and Cindy Voss and Sherry Melick for town board, has spent almost $7,300 [...]
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Judge: No more money for Land Master developers
In an Oct. 23 ruling, an appellate court judge said the town doesn’t owe any more money to developers who sued them.
The town already paid attorneys Jacobowitz and Gubitz about $561,000, after losing the case which threw out town laws and its comprehensive plan.
The firm filed a motion to also receive attorney’s fees accrued during [...]
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New blog platform
Hey Folks,
As you can see we’ve changed the platforms for our blogs!
The new site has additional features, including categories and better photo display. I’ll be going back through more than 100 posts to make sure you can easily find those on the Central Hudson power line or police consolidation.
Sadly, we weren’t able to move all [...]
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Town debate details released
Word around the Village of Walden Thursday was that Democrat and Republican representatives had a heated discussion at the Walden Diner about the details of Friday’s debate.
After all was hashed out, here’s the format:
- During the debate as many questions that can fit in the time allotted will be asked. Questions will be fielded from [...]
Montgomery Dems restart their website
The Town of Montgomery Democratic ticket relaunched its website today minus a couple of candidate profiles.
The Restart the Progress website, which went live earlier this week, originally included the photo and biography of Maybrook resident Gail Jeter as a write-in candidate for town board. Jeter lost in the Democratic primary to candidates Lisa Kimball [...]
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Candidates to debate Friday
A town candidates debate is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Valley Central High School. Audience members can submit questions at the event, which will be moderated by Walden Mayor Brian Maher.
Village of Montgomery and police need arbitrator
The Village of Montgomery board and the police union will begin arbitration over a contract next week. Village police have been in contract negotiations since unionizing about three years ago. After a special meeting between the village board and its negotiating attorney Monday, Mayor Steve Brescia said the two parties still haven’t reached an agreement. [...]
Playground construction begins in Benedict Park