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SOUTHERN
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Vol. 15, No. 17
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APRIL 25 - MAY 1, 2018
Last week the Marlboro School Board
approved a $56,888,880 budget for the
2018-19 school year, which is a 2.03%
increase in proposed expenditures from
the current school year. The levy for
next year stands at $34,778,968 and is an
$830,235 increase over this year. A public
hearing on the budget is scheduled for
May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marlborough
Town Hall, 21 Milton Tnpk, Milton.
Superintendent Michael Brooks said
this year’s budget theme of ‘Stability and
Security’ reflects the priorities of the
School Board and the Administration as
they developed the budget for next year.
Brooks pointed out that last fall
the district’s Standard & Poors credit
ONE DOLLAR
Curtain rises
on Highland
production
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Marlboro adopts $56.8 million budget
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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rating increased from A to A+, making
Marlboro, “a very stable, economically
viable school district. We’re in a great
position, which is very, very important to
stay that way. We also want to continue
offering high quality academic programs,
so keeping our programs in place is an
important cornerstone of our approach,
Continued on page 6
Highland’s best and brightest
Lloyd project criticized
as ‘slight of hand’
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Ulster County BOCES
Highland High School valedictorian Arianna Ranalli and salutatorian Dean Riley lead the Highland Class of 2018. Story on page 25.
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Adaptive
reuse or new
construction?
In 2016 an application was submitted
by Ethan Jackman to convert his existing
9,600 sq/ft storage building at the closed
Pratt Lumberyard into a 20 unit apartment
complex. The project will have two stories
consisting of 6 two bedroom and 14 one
bedroom units, developed under the
Town of Lloyd’s Adaptive Reuse statute,
sec. 100-31 of the town code. The building
sits about twenty feet off of the Hudson
Valley Rail Trail.
During the initial public discussions
in 2016 the developer and his professional
team have repeatedly assured the
Planning Board and the residents that
most of the structure was going to be
reused and only part of the building
would be removed. Presently, the original
building has been taken down and an
entirely new structure is being erected in
its place.
At the September 15, 2016 Planning
Board meeting, Jackman stated, “The
proposal is for adaptive re-use in the
existing building. We will not take it
down. I have discussed this with [Building
Department Director] Dave Barton and
discussed it with an architect and they
both said this is doable.”
Board
member
Peter
Brooks
Continued on page 3