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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, April 12, 2017
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
Montgomery Town Board Audit/
Work Session, 7 p.m. Town Government
Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
Town of Montgomery ZBA, 7 p.m.
Town Government Center, 110 Bracken
Road, Montgomery.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19
Wallkill Board of Education. 7 p.m.,
Leptondale Elementary School.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Valley Central Board of Education
5:45 p.m. Administration building, 944
Route 17K, Montgomery. BOCES vote and
election and tenure review.
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Depew’s deals paved the way for bigger things
By JESSICA COHEN
A
s a Pine Bush High School senior in
1999, when Dan Depew might have
been thinking about school work,
football, or the prom, his mind drifted
to problem-solving, he recalled—how to
stock the cafeteria soda machine with
healthy drinks and still have it fund
school activities, for instance. And when
the only bathroom at one end of the
school was locked, he asked why and
was told that hallway lacked monitors.
So he suggested opening the bathroom,
and if anyone made a complaint, it could
be locked again. It stayed open without
incident.
Depew says he was neither popular
nor a good student when he was elected
student council president. Because of his
dyslexia, which makes reading difficult,
he got by in school by lis