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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Five take the oath of office in Marlborough
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
The Marlborough Town Clerk and
Board members retained their seats in
the November election. On January 1
they were sworn in.
After
Judge
Michael
Kraiza
administered the oath of office for Town
Clerk to Colleen Corcoran; she in turn
administered the oath for Supervisor to
Al Lanzetta, for Councilmen to Allan
Koenig and Howard Baker and for
Highway Superintendent to Gael Appler
Sr. Appler has now served the town for
more than two decades.
In a subsequent interview, Lanzetta
said he is pleased that the members of the
Town Board were re-elected.
“First of all they are a working
board and they find something they like
and they really go after it. They help
me tremendously,” he said. “When I
say working, they’re very involved in
bettering the lives of the people of the
Town of Marlborough.”
Lanzetta described his mantra for 2018.
“We built the foundation for the first
two years I was in office [and] now we’re
going to build the house.”
Lanzetta recently signed a contract for
$250,000 for repairs and the installation
of five new sidewalks in Marlboro in the
vicinity of Grand Street and Western
Avenue and on to the Marlboro Library.
Highway Superintendent Gael Appler and
his crew along with members of local 17
will perform the needed work.
Lanzetta said the $250,000 the town
received from NYS Assemblyman Frank
Skartados will go for sewers this year on
the western side of Route 9W up to the
proposed Dunkin Donuts site that will
be built on the former Dickie’s Diner
parcel. A second later phase of sewer
infrastructure work will go up to the
industrial park and be paid for by another
$250,000 grant from NYS Sen. William
Larkin.
Lanzetta said he will soon schedule
meetings to plan for a possible recreation
center on the grounds of the Marlboro
Presbyterian Church.
Lanzetta said the exterior painting
at the Milton Train Station will resume
once the warmer weather returns in the
spring.
“Then we’ll have a gala opening with
Larkin and Skartados and the community
being there.” he said. “That is the effort of
ten years of hard labor from a dedicated
board and volunteers.”
Lanzetta believes all of this effort
will eventually lead to an increase in
The Town of Marlborough elected officials for 2018: L-R Supervisor Al Lanzetta, Town Clerk Colleen Corcoran, Highway Superintendent Gael
Appler Sr., and Councilmen Allan Koenig and Howard Baker.
economic development in the community.
He is encouraged to see an uptick in
housing in town.
“Basically I feel Marlborough is in
a position where I’ve never felt more
enthusiastic and optimistic about what’s
going to happen to the town,” he said. “Its
ready to pop and it’s going to be a good
thing.”
Lanzetta thanked the public “for giving
me a chance to duly represent them for
another two years and I’ll work just as
hard as I did the first two years, if not
harder.”
Howard Baker said the campaign “was
a close race, we had good opposition. We
kept the board intact, which is a good
thing.”
Baker is looking forward to
implementing the recommendations from
On New Year’s Day Marlborough Town Clerk Colleen Corcoran swears in Al Lanzetta for anoth-
er term as Town Supervisor.
the Route 9W Corridor study.
“The focus really has to be improving
the two hamlets and the 9W corridor that
connects them to make it more business
fr iendly and at the same time make it
more aesthetically pleasing,” he said.
“There is a lot of work to be done there.”
Baker promised that the Town Board
“will continue to work hard like we have
been. We have a lot of projects teed up
that we want to drive to completion.
People talk about studies but now is the
time to start implementing some of the
recommendations from these studies.”
Koenig said he wants to “continue
the progress that we’ve made and work
together as a group to keep moving the
town forward.”
Koenig said besides sidewalks and
infrastructure he wants to continue
beautifying the hamlets. He said the
Bayside housing project is also very much
alive and they still want to build.
“Things are looking good and I think
we’ve done a good job and we’ll continue
to do a great job,” he said.
Koenig thanked the public for their
support “and I look forward to serving
them again.”