Mid Hudson Times May 02 2018

T IMES Turning trash into fuel MID HUDSON Vol. 30, No 18 3 Volunteers Page 20 MAY 2 - 8, 2018 3 ONE DOLLAR Restive Reverie Page 14 SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR ‘Eco-Safe Digester’ planned for New Windsor parcel By WAYNE A. HALL [email protected] “My biggest concerns,” says New Windsor homeowner Betty Ann Yaris, “are the traffic and runoff.” She like other meeting goers at New Windsor town hall Thursday were catching up to the proposed alternative to the town’s traditional garbage throw away and bury collection method of trucking refuse to landfills. New Windsor has already signed a contract for BioHiTech Global to buy for more than a million dollars, a 12-acre site for the proposed plant in New Windsor where the company’s “Eco-Safe Digester” would turn garbage into fuel instead of burying it in landfills. Solids are sorted out and become useful fuel in this innovative process that’s caught fire in Europe. Waste disgester microbes run by computers power this innovative process that’s taken hold in Europe. No cost savings estimates were given at the town board meeting but in other communities using this method of waste Continued on page 4 N ewburgh ’ s B ravest Shantal Riley The City of Newburgh honored its bravest firefighters at a ceremony last week. From left: Acting Fire Chief Terry Ahlers, Lt. Brendan Hogan, Assistant Chief Bill Horton, firefighter Justin Myers and firefighter Patrick Griffin. Story on page 3. WWW.MIDHUDSONTIMES.COM Lee to enter race for mayor Former Newburgh city councilwoman Gay Lee announced last week that she will run for mayor this fall. Lee is expected to challenge fellow Democrat Torrance Harvey, who last week was appointed mayor by the Newburgh City Council following the death of Mayor Judy Kennedy. Harvey will serve through the remainder of 2018. A special election will be held in November to fill the remaining year of Kennedy’s second term which began in January, 2016 “This is not on behalf of me This is for the people Gay Lee in the City of Newburgh, some of whom have a lot of difficulty speaking up for themselves they are so overwhelmed by their poverty that they don’t know where to start,” she told midhudsonnews.com last week. “The people who are new to Newburgh need someone who can hear what they are saying and articulate it to the city manager and articulate it to Albany.” Lee vacated her seat on the City Council in 2016 in her first bid for mayor. That ended when her places on the Democratic, Green and Independence party lines were successful challenged by fellow candidate Jonathan Jacobson who contested the validity of 483 signatures on her nominating petition. Jacobson Continued on page 4