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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, October 9, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar..........................................12
Craig McKinney................................ 9
Classifieds......................................30
Crossword...................................... 32
Highland......................................... 27
Letters to the Editor........................8
Marlborough................................... 26
Obituaries...................................... 23
Opinion.............................................8
Police Blotter...................................4
School News................................... 28
Service Directory...........................34
Sports............................................40
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
Lloyd Zoning Board, 7 p.m,. Lloyd Town
Hall, 12 Church St., Highland
Marlborough Zoning Board, 7 p.m.,
Marlborough Town Hall, 21 Milton Tnpk,
Milton
Plattekill Zoning Board, 8 p.m.,
Plattekill Town Hall, 1915 Rte. 44/55,
Modena
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
Marlborough Town Board, 7 p.m.,
Marlborough Town Hall, 21 Milton Tnpk,
Milton
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15
Highland School Board, 7pm, Highland
High School rm E-32, 320 Pancake
Hollow Rd., Highland
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15
Lloyd Town Board, 7pm, Lloyd Town
Hall, 12 Church St., Highland
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Marlboro appoints student representatives
By MARK REYNOLDS
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The Marlboro School District
appointed two student representatives to
the school board. They are both seniors
and will alternate in attending the board
meetings that are scheduled on the first
and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30
p.m. at the Marlborough Town Hall. Each
representative compiles a report that
they read at the school board meetings
and answer questions.
Jimin Beare applied for the position,
in part, because of her friendship with
current board member Joann Reed.
“She’s been part of the family
for so long and I absolutely love her
advocacy work, her assertiveness and
her enthusiasm that she does for special
needs kids,” she said. “I was absolutely
inspired by her.”
Beare is unsure if she will study
politics in college, “but as a citizen it’s
still very important to be more educated
about the subject.” She will be voting for
the first time in a national election next
year.
In order to keep up on what is
important to the student body, Beare
plans to send bi-monthly Google forums,
“to the kids emails or doing monthly
visitations to the schools and heading out
to support them for events, like Power Up
Night at the Middle School. I [also] plan
on attending parent-teacher conferences
and things like that.”
Beare described he view of the role of
a student representative.
“I’m here and I’m always willing to
discuss anything. I’m enthralled with
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Madeleine Brand.
people’s discussions on what they want to
vent to me,” she said.
Students can contact Beare on
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, all
under her name.
Madeleine Brand said she applied for
the position, “to represent my class and
to make the school a better environment
than it already is.”
Brand is glad the board appointed her
and Beare.
“I feel we can both help out and make
it better,’ she said. “I am looking forward
to a good school year.” Brand expects to be meeting with
students in the Middle and Elementary
schools to gather information on their
concerns, either in person or by a Google
classroom poll.
Brand said so far everything has been
going very well but trusts she will find
issues of concern to the students.
Brand has unexpectedly found the
schools administrative issues interesting.
“Usually that’s not what I’m drawn
to but I thought it would be a good
opportunity and good to put on my
resume for college,” she said.
Plattekill Town Board approves sale of library building
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Jimin Beare.
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use of the Senior Center, located at the
Plattekill Public Library, will be decided
by a collaboration between the library
trustees and the Plattekill Golden Seniors
group.
The Town of Plattekill 2020 budget
planning continues
The Town Board is hard at work
ironing out details of the 2020 Town of
Plattekill Budget. All town departments
have submitted their budget “wish lists”
to the Town Clerk. The Town Board will
meet with the heads of each department
over the next few weeks in order to create
a tentative budget. Copies of the tentative
budget will be available to residents at the
Town Hall by the end of October.
According to Supervisor Joseph Croce,
the creation of the 2020 Town of Plattekill
Budget has proved to be the hardest of
his career as Town Supervisor. Due to
increases in health insurance, wages and
other factors, the 2020 tentative budget
currently includes a 1.81% tax increase
for residents. Supervisor Croce stressed
that the budget is still tentative. The
Town Board and Town department heads
will continue to evaluate the upcoming
budget. Supervisor Croce publicly
thanked the members of the Town Board,
and Town Clerk Barbara Dawes for their
hard work during this budget season.
The Town of Plattekill 2020 budget vote
is scheduled for the November 6 Town
Board meeting.
The next Town of Plattekill Town
Board meeting will be held on October 16
at the Plattekill Town Hall.