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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Dedicated service
Plattekill retires policeman’s badge
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Lloyd, Marlborough and Plattekill
recently unveiled their proposed town
budgets for 2017.
Town of Lloyd
Bookkeeper Karen McPeck said that
the town’s tentative budget reflects the
figures that were compiled and submitted
by department heads.
“This is our working budget and this is
where we will start to make adjustments
and analyze the numbers,” she said.
McPeck highlighted the trend in the
last few years with calculations outside
the water and sewer district; in 2015 the
initial tentative budget showed a 38 cents
per thousand increase that was reduced
in the final budget to a .05 cent/thousand
increase; the budget for 2016 originally
had a $.51 cent /thousand increase that
was lowered to .04 cents/thousand and
in 2017 “we are showing a .35 cents/
thousand increase and we’ll work it to
keep below the tax cap again.”
Councilman Joe Mazzetti commended
McPeck and all of the Town Board
members “that worked very diligently
so far to make sure that we’re under the
tax cap because that’s important to our
taxpayers to keep under the cap.”
Presently, Appropriations for 2017
stands at $9,164,734, with the top four
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The Plattekill Town Board recently honored Police Officer Willard Sutton at a special retirement ceremony. Pictured L-R Lt. William Smith,
Supervisor Joe Croce, Sutton and Councilmembers Cindy Delgado, Dean Depew and Michael Putnam.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
In an extraordinary action, the Town
of Plattekill retired Badge number 116
that belonged to Police Officer Willard
Sutton, who served the town for 32
years. This was the first time that a
departmental badge has ever been
retired.
Last week the Town Board honored
Sutton with a special presentation to
acknowledge his long and distinguished
career in law enforcement. Supervisor
Joe Croce said the Town Board “did
not want that to go unnoticed.” A
shadow box was presented to Sutton
containing his Police department patch,
an American Flag, the collar TPP button
[Town of Plattekill Police] and his Police
Badge, which will not be worn again by
a Plattekill Police Officer, and a small
plaque acknowledging Sutton’s 32 years
of dedicated service.
Croce presented the shadow box
to Sutton, saying “Thank you so very
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Historically, military sailors, who
were retiring from shipboard service
considered it bad luck if their shadows
touched shore before they did but
having a small shadow box containing
their belongings allowed them to ensure
that they would touch shore before their
‘shadow’ did.
Lt. William Smith congratulated
Sutton on his retirement, saying Sutton
has always supported him “and I feel it
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