TIMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 13, No 46
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NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2016
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Grand theft
$800,000 well-drilling rig stolen in Plattekill
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Skartados
re-elected to
Assembly
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Incumbent Democrat Frank Skartados
handily defeated Conservative Rev. Bill
Banuchi in the 104th NYS Assembly
district. The unofficial tally has Skartados
at 26,023 and Banuchi at 6,293. There are
still absentee and affidavit ballots left
to count but these are not expected to
significantly
change
the
outcome.
Rev. Banuchi
said running for
elected
office
was
a
good
experience,
saying
that
he “learned a
lot along the
way.” He said
the Republican
Frank Skartados
Party’s failure to
register his name
on time for their line was a contributing
factor to his loss.
“It relegated me to a minor party
candidate with a Conservative Party but
had we been on the Republican line the
way we originally intended, we think we
would have had a much better chance to
be competitive,” he said.
Banuchi said his message reminded
people “that our government is based
on a Judeo-Christian tradition; that was
really a welcoming attitude when I talked
about God, which normally people think
is the third-rail of politics. We found that
A well drilling rig worth an estimated
$800,000 was stolen on November 1
from Frank Sabarese & Son, a 70 yearold business in Plattekill. The drilling
machine is on a 10 wheeler truck, is 35
feet long by 13 feet high, is ‘moonstone
blue’ and has the company name on it.
Phil Sabarese said the rig was stolen
at 12:08 am on November 1 from their
secured lot, which is directly across
from the Ardonia Market on Rte. 44/55
in Plattekill. Sabarese said a security
tape from the market clearly shows
an individual backing the rig out
and driving off west on Route 44/55,
however, a face is not visible because
a mirror on the driver’s side blocked it
out.
“We get in at 6 a.m., have our morning
coffee, shoot the breeze, talking about
where we’re going next to drill and a
little past 7 it was light enough and we
go outside and we noticed the cable
going across the gate to block off our
back lot is off,” he said.
Sabarese knows he did not leave the
cable off of the gate the previous evening
and his father looked up and said the
machine was gone. Sabarese pointed
out “that whoever did this knows how
to drive one of these rigs because a drill
rig with a drill pipe on the right side and
the drill pipe on top with the carousel is
very top heavy; it is not like driving a
flatbed. These things sway so whoever
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The drilling machine is on a 10 wheeler truck, is 35 feet long by 13 feet high, is ‘moonstone
blue’ and has the company name on it.
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