T
IMES
Turning trash into fuel
MID
HUDSON
Vol. 30, No 18
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Volunteers
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MAY 2 - 8, 2018
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Reverie
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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
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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.
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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
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