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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, February 21, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar..........................................12
Craig McKinney................................ 9
Classifieds...................................... 26
Crossword...................................... 28
Highland..........................................21
Letters to the Editor........................ 9
Marlboro........................................20
Obituaries...................................... 25
Opinion.............................................8
Plattekill........................................22
School News....................................18
Service Directory........................... 29
Sports............................................ 36
Six seeking Democratic
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CORRECTION
Highland’s Mat Malherio was mis-
identified in a photo in the Feb. 14
edition of the Southern Ulster Times.
The athlete pictured was Joseph
Arentsen.
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Six candidates running for the Democratic nomination for the NY 19th Congressional seat participated in a forum at the Marlboro High School
last Saturday. Pictured L-R Jeff Beals, Antonio Delgado, Gareth Rhodes, Dave Clegg, Pat Ryan and Brian Flynn.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Six candidates for the NY 19th
Congressional seat appeared at a
forum at the Marlborough High School
last Saturday at the invitation of the
Marlborough Democratic Committee,
organized by Mici Simonofsky. One of the
six will be chosen on Primary Day, June
26 to represent the Democratic Party.
Simonofsky welcomed the candidates
and the public to the forum and each
candidate was given the opportunity to
introduce themselves and to tell a bit of
their own story and their political beliefs.
Jeff Beals
Jeff Beals began with a question; one
that all of the candidates share: “Are you
ready to get rid of John Faso and open a
new chapter for our community?”
Beals is a High School teacher and his
wife Suhayr is a kindergarten teacher in
Woodstock “and our sons Abraham (5)
and Joseph (7) go to school with us.”
Beals said his four grandparents
survived the holocaust but “lost their
world to the rise of intolerance in their
country and came to America as refugees.
They came here for a better start and
worked in factories and sweatshops in
New York City and found a piece of
paradise here in the Hudson Valley in
Sullivan County in the Catskills.”
Beals started his career in the