TIMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 12, No 44
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NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Confirmation
class
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The two Town Council seats were
uncontested with Democrat Scott
Corcoran receiving 1,194 and Republican
Ed Molinelli receiving 1,088.
For the position of Town Justice
Dan Jackson had a razor-thin margin of
786 votes to 777 for his opponent Gregg
Hogancamp.
Gael Appler Sr. ran unopposed for
ONE DOLLAR
Dukes
drop
Burke
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Lanzetta, Croce win; Lloyd too close to call
Former
Marlborough
Town
Supervisor Al Lanzetta was returned
to office, Tuesday, beating incumbent
Stephen Osborn by a vote of 825 to 708.
On his win, Lanzetta said “We worked
hard, went door to door and did all of the
right things. I am blessed and it will be a
pleasure and honor to serve the people of
Marlborough.”
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Highway Superintendent and received
1,184 votes.
Town of Lloyd
As of press deadline, the races in
the Town of Lloyd are close. For Town
Supervisor, incumbent Paul Hansut
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By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Fingerprinting
Mark Reynolds
Parents were provided with optional fingerprinting for their kids at the recent Community Day at the Marlborough Police station in Milton.
Story, photos on page 3.
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Lloyd
hesitates on
sign law
At their last meeting, the Lloyd Town
Board held a public hearing on amending
a section of the town’s sign law concerning regulations on digital signs. The
board received input from resident Mike
Sweeney on a different section of the law
that calls for the removal of all wooden
billboards in town by the end of this
decade.
“Anything that restricts business in
this town is foolhardy to me,” he said.
Sweeney said the revenue he receives
from leasing his land for billboards helps
him pay his taxes. He said Building
Department Director Dave Barton’s comment that a person will have to sue the
town to keep them beyond 2020 is “insulting.”
“If that’s the attitude of the town, let
people come and sue us for reasonable
things, something is really wrong,” he
said. “[I] never thought a town board
would say we’re going to rip down every
billboard in the Town of Lloyd; never
thought in a million years.”
Councilman Mike Horodyski said he
could go either way on keeping them or
having them removed but surmised that
part of the impetus for removal was for
aesthetic reasons.
Three current Town Board members
– Jeff Paladino, Kevin Brennie and Mike
Horodyski – voted yes in 2010 on a measure that called for the removal of all
billboards by 2020. Wording in a recent
draft of the sign law sought to keep ones
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