TIMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 13, No 8
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FEB. 24 - MARCH 1, 2016
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ONE DOLLAR
“You’re a Good
Man, Charlie
Brown”
Dukes
tune
up
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Lloyd towing companies cry foul Marlboro
unveils
school
Marlboro girls end MHAL title drought
budget
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week, two Lloyd auto repair
shop owners, Jerry Erichsen and Troy
Tortarella told the Town Board that the
town’s towing rotation list is unfair and
the rules governing the 11 companies on
the list should be revamped. They pointed
out that Joseph DiBlanca has four out
of the 11 slots on the list and as a result
receives more calls than any other com-
pany, which Erichsen and Tortarella said
gives DiBlanca an unfair advantage.
Erichsen said this situation has been
going on for more than six years and “is
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Highlights academic
challenges
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Bond Brungard
Taylor Felicello, left, Melissa Sadler, center, and Julia Rusk, right, team captains for the Marlboro girls’ basketball team, accept trophies for
Marlboro’s first MHAL title since 1986. Story on page 40
WWW.SOUTHERNULSTERTIMES.COM
Last
week,
Marlboro
School
Superintendent Michael Brooks unveiled
a first draft of a conceptual budget plan
for the 2016-17 school year, including data
on how well students are doing academically. He said he was not yet releasing
a specific proposal “of what our budget
should look like for 2016-17 because there
are too many variables and too many
options” at this time, such as what exactly will the district receive in state aid,
what the tax cap will be and will the Gap
Elimination Adjustment, which is a loss
to the district, remain at $329,000. He said
“if the cards fall right in Albany” the
district may, by shifting and reallocations
in budget lines, be able maintain their tax
levy at virtually a zero percent tax levy
increase.
Brooks said although the worst of the
power plant sale/reassessment impact is
over, the district still has to “find a careful balance between the academic needs,
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