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Vol. 16, No. 7
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FEBRUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 19, 2019
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Last
week
architect
Thomas
Ritzenthaler, of CS Arch, took members
of the Marlboro School Board and the
Administration on a walking tour of the
Middle School, showing the upgrades and
changes that his company is proposing
as part of the district’s Capital Facilities
Plan, called Vision 2020.
Superintendent Michael Brooks said
the district’s “paramount responsibility”
is to support the student’s learning
environment coupled with fostering fiscal
responsibility to the taxpayers.
Brooks said the district has done a
great job in maintaining the facilities over
the last several decades.
“We have a tremendous facilities and
ONE DOLLAR
Concert for
strings
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Marlboro plans Middle School upgrades
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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operations group led by Larry Cavazza
that takes extraordinary pride in making
sure things work, that things look good,
that things smell good, that things sound
good. That’s just what they do, it’s in their
core and I thank you very much for that,
Mr. Cavazza.”
Brooks said the time has come,
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Lloyd looks
at battery
storage plant
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Jim Quigley, Supervisor of the Town of
Ulster and President of the Ulster County
Supervisors Association, informed the
Lloyd Town Board on a power plant that
has been proposed by GlidePath in his
township.
Quigley said the first iteration of
the proposal was for a natural gas fired
plant, “that as of last Friday was recast
into an environmentally friendly battery
power peaker facility.” He pointed out
that regulatory changes, backed by the
Governor, made it possible for GlidePath
to construct a battery facility, something
they had always wanted to do.
“In December the Governor doubled
down on his announcement of a policy
change by saying that he would advocate
for 3,000 Mega Watts of battery powered
storage on the grid by 2030 but more
importantly he authorized NYSERDA
[New York State Energy Research
and Development Authority] to create
a program to incentivize the quick
deployment of these facilities,” Quigley
said.
Quigley said this policy change
allowed Glide Path to accelerate their
project and now makes the plant in fully
conform with New York energy policy.
“It has now been hailed by the
environmental community as a cutting
edge project,” he said.
Quigley said he understands that
GlidePath may be approaching the Town
of Lloyd for a similar proposal and offered
his experiences of the past nine months
Polar plunge
Mark Reynolds
Highland Firefighters took a plunge in icy waters last weekend to raise money for Alzheimer’s research. Story on pages 18 and 19.
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