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Vol. 15, No. 3
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JANUARY 17 - 23, 2018
The Marlborough Town Board
continues to fight with a united voice
against the U. S. Coast Guard’s push to
establish additional oil barge anchorage
areas along the Hudson River, stretching
from Yonkers to Kingston. Last week
Marlborough approved a resolution
aimed at preventing any new anchorage
areas “from being sited at locations
where they pose a clear and direct threat
to the environment, quality of life and
regional economic development goals of
the Hudson Valley.”
The
resolution
states
that
Marlborough in particular has economic,
natural and scenic assets that would be
threatened by anchorage areas in their
town. Marlborough’s concern is that large
barges have the potential to disrupt the
economic “vitality” of the newly revived
waterfront, may endanger drinking water
supplies, damage fish habitats and could
detract “from the scenic beauty and
quality of life along the river.”
A nautical map of the barge plan calls
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Anchorage plan for Hudson still alive
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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for establishing 10 formal sites with a
total of 40 berths. Proponents of the plan
point out, however, that these are not new
areas as vessels have anchored in these
parts of the Hudson River in the past. The
plan only seeks to establish these areas in
an official capacity.
Just off of Marlboro, the plan calls
for marking out 154 acres of the river
where vessels could anchor, in Milton 74
acres are proposed and just to the south
in Roseton 305 acres are being proposed.
All are slated as long term sites, meaning
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Kids loved roasting marshmallows at Winterfest 2018, Saturday. More photos on page 2.
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Plattekill
Library
board still
at odds over
new building
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
For the past three years the Plattekill
Library Board of Trustees has been
unable to reach a consensus on how
to build a new library in town due to
significant and ongoing disagreements
on how to proceed.
The board spent several years on a
failed attempt to buy the nearby Cider
Mill property and it appears they have
lost their deposit of $9,250 because of the
mishandling. This lack of cohesiveness
on the board was on full display at last
week’s meeting.
When Karen Adamson, Valerie Smith
and Lynn Ridgeway were asked if they
had voted in the past against the present
library property for a new building,
Ridgeway flatly denied they had voted
no. Adamson said she has never been
against considering the present property
but does not want to sink any money into
the actual structure while Smith wants
“proof” that their present site is a “good
thing for the taxpayers.”
Library board minutes reveal that in
2016 the trio were willing to spend nearly
$1 million for the sale and remediation of
the Cider Mill property before a shovel
went in the ground for a new structure.
The library’s own architect calculated
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