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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Library trustee resigns after writing letter of complaint
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At their February meeting, long-serving Plattekill
Library Trustee and former board President Lynne
Newburgh
prepares
to oppose
Danskammer
Ridgeway submitted her resignation to President William
Farrell. She was not in attendance.
On the library agenda for February Farrell indicated
that he was going to discuss Ridgeway’s formal letter
of complaint that she sent, while Library President, to
Mark Schamming, Deputy Commissioner for the NYS
Library Cultural Education Center, on September 13,
2018. Within the six page letter, Ridgeway accuses board
Trustees William Farrell, David Padilla and Joseph Egan
Continued on page 5
Four
decades of
knighthood
Section 9 champs
Marlboro’s K of C council
celebrates a milestone
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
The City of Newburgh looks to join the
Article 10 process for Danskammer Energy
Plant by beginning the application for
intervenor funding. Intervenor funding
can be used to pay for expert witnesses,
consultants, administrative costs and
legal fees associated to information
submitted for the sitting board in the
Article 10 process.
Danskammer Energy Plant is not
located within city lines, but its proximity
to the border of the city qualifies the
municipality for intervenor funding. City
council members and members of the
community have spoken out against the
plant because of the fear that pollution
will be pushed into city air.
The Energy plant must follow Article
10 of New York State Public Service law,
which calls for the review of new, and
repowered or modified major electric
generating facilities in New York State by
the Board on Electric Generation Siting
Continued on page 3
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Bond Brungard
Captains Erin Lofaro, left, and Jetta Stephens, right, pose with the newest addition to
Marlboro’s trophy case after the Lady Duke’s won the Section 9 championship last weekend.
Story on page 36.
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This past weekend the Marlboro
chapter of the Knights of Columbus
celebrated their 40th anniversary with
a Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church
followed by a dinner at the Ship Lantern
Inn in Milton.
Fr. Thomas Dicks summed up their
mission since their founding in Marlboro
on March 1, 1979.
“The Knights of Columbus is a great
organization of Catholic men who are
really looking to make the world a better
place and to incorporate charity, unity
and fraternity into their whole lives,” Fr.
Dicks said.
Justin Pascale joined in 2003, in large
part because of his uncle Anthony
Andola, who was a Grand Knight at that
time.
“It was very attractive to help people
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