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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, February 17, 2016
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Opinion.............................................8
Police Blotter...................................4
Plattekill........................................ 23
School News...................................20
Service Directory........................... 32
Sports............................................40
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Hein delivers 2016 State of the County address
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Hein began by saying that when he
took office what was needed was an
entirely new way of thinking about how
county government could best serve the
residents of Ulster County.
“We chose to innovate and create
entirely new models that are now replicated all across New York. If we had just
shied away from tough choices or innovation, then we never would have addressed
the looming crisis at Golden Hill [nursing
home] or restructured County government, delivering millions in tax cuts and
millions more to our towns and City governments,” he said. “If we were willing to
accept the status quo as the only choice,
then homeless Veterans would have no
choice but to sleep under bridges, vulnerable seniors would be stuck on waiting
lists and more inner-city kids would be
struggling to access higher education.
The dream of a world-class rail trail system would have remained only a dream
and our long-neglected roads and bridges
would have simply begun to crumble.”
Hein said he took the opposite approach
by reinventing county government “from
the ground up” that resulted in a disruption of the status quo. By working hard
and partnering with others there is now
a $7.8 million community college satellite
campus in Kin