TIMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 13, No 51
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DECEMBER 21 - 27, 2016
In the past few months it has become
apparent there are sharp divisions among
trustees of the Plattekill Library on
where to locate a home for a new library
and how to go about it.
Most recently the board voted to stop
consideration on a parcel, known as the
Cider Mill property, that is just down
from their present location on Route 32.
The board has already spent $17,000 on
structural and environmental studies on
this parcel and sent the owner a deposit
check of $9,250 in April 2014, which he
cashed. In November 2014, the owner sent
a check of his own back to the library
board’s attorney with all indications that
the deal was off.
Library Board President Lynn
Ridgeway is on record stating that the
library’s attorney decided on his own to
place the seller’s check in “escrow” and
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Infighting plagues Plattekill Library Board
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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at this point, due to the passage of time,
the check is no longer valid. Ridgeway
also stated that no one on the Library
Board instructed their attorney to take
this action. A source who spoke on the
condition of anonymity, pointed out that
in a phone conversation the library board
had with their attorney, he insisted that it
was the board who instructed him to hold
the check. The attorney did not mention a
particular person but additional records
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‘There were, in the same country, shepherds....”
Flu season
is here
First four cases
confirmed in
Highland
By JESSICA COHEN
[email protected]
The first four confirmed cases of
influenza that Stephen Weinman, MD,
has seen this season in his Highland
office included a middle school boy, two
middle aged adults, and one patient over
65, all in the last
two weeks.
“Before that,
there
were
none,” he said.
“Once you see
them, you see
more and more.
They
slowly
increase
and
then peak in a
few weeks. The peak lasts a week or a few
weeks, depending on how many people
are vaccinated and the kind of flu coming
through. Last year there were less than
average.”
Nevertheless, about 20,000 people die
annually from the flu, he says. They
are usually the very young, the elderly,
and people made vulnerable by chronic
ailments, particularly cardiac problems,
diabetes, asthma and other respiratory
About 20,000
people die
annually from
the flu
Photo provided
The children of Saint Augustine’s Parish in Highland presented their annual nativity pageant last Friday. Story, additional photos on page 38.
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