T IMES
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 30, No. 35
AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
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Grid season
kicks off
Friday
Tiger Infrastructure Partners and
Agate Power, owners of the Danskammer
Power Plant, has announced plans to
replace their aging plant with a new
state of the art facility. The new plant is
expected to generate up to 575 megawatts
and is projected to cost $400 million. The
18-acre site is located off River Road in the
Backpack
giveaway
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Danskammer Plant to be replaced
Town of Newburgh.
Tiger Infrastructure Partners is a
private equity firm that was founded by
a former Treasury official and is backed
by Julian Robertson, a billionaire hedge
fund investor as well as the New York Ziff
family.
John Lacey, Director of Public
Relations and Public Affairs for the
company, responded with details about
the proposed new facility. He said the
ONE DOLLAR
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New energy source
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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new Energy Center will, “provide a
more efficient and cost-effective facility
to produce electricity while minimizing
impacts on the surrounding communities
and maintaining tax benefits into the
future.”
Lacey said the proposed plant will be
far more efficient than the present one,
touting the fact that the new facility’s,
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Salsa Under the Stars
Brian Wolfe
Mextonalli, a Mexican folklore dance group performed last Friday during the second installment of Salsa Under the Stars at Safe Harbors Green
in Newburgh. The event drew about 400 people.
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Gay Lee
petition
upheld
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
The race for Mayor in the City of
Newburgh is back in action. Candidate
Gay Lee won her way back onto the
ballot winning her lawsuit against the
Orange County Board of Elections for
invalidating 69 of her signatures on
August 16 and reaffirming the lower
court decision in the court of appeals on
Tuesday.
The Board of Elections went to the
Appellate Division, Second Department
of the New York State Supreme Court on
Tuesday to have the decision reversed.
The appellate division sided with Justice
Catherine Bartlett, the decision of
the lower court was upheld. Lee will
officially be running against current
Mayor Torrance Harvey on September 13
in the Democratic Primary.
“I think Judge Bartlett and the
appellate court did the right thing,” said
Lee. “They decided not to disenfranchise
Newburgh voters by following this bogus
law created by [Councilman] Jonathan
Jacobson and the Board of Elections. The
issue became less about me and more
about the voters in the City of Newburgh,
we cannot continue to allow Newburgh’s
voice to be stifled.”
Lee will be fighting for a one-year term
against Harvey in the coming election to
fill the vacancy created by the death of
Mayor Judy Kennedy in April. Kennedy
served two years as Mayor and requested
that Harvey fill her position which was
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