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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Sam’s Point Fire
Police Blotter
TOWN OF CRAWFORD POLICE
Michael Masucci, 30, of Montgomery, was charged April 16,
with Criminal Contempt in the 2nd Degree. Police said Masucci
violated a court issued Order of Protection. He was released to
return to Town Court on April 25, 2016.
Franklyn Ferrino, 39, of Middletown, was charged April 19, with
Aggravated Unlicensed operation and Unlawfully Fleeing Police.
Ferrino was observed failing to stop at a stop sign at Collabar
Road and 17K. He is to appear in Town court on May 2.
Scot Berenson, 50, Montgomery was charged with driving
while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, following a personal injury auto accident on Stone School House Road.
He is to appear in Town court on May 2.
WALDEN POLICE
Courtesy NY State Incident Command
As of Tuesday, the Sam’s Point Fire at Minnewaska State Park Reserve has burned approximately 2,000 acres in Ulster County
– about 1.5 miles west of Cragsmoor. Approximately 200 firefighters were among those fighting a brush fire that started on
Saturday, April 23. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
Spartan race coming to Shawangunk
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in one of the official, sprawling Spartan races held in the
Tri-state area.
A large-scale Spartan race that’s coming up in June
at the Tuxedo Ridge Ski Center will cost athletes up
to $129 to participate and will run them through five
miles of treacherous obstacles, including an uphill mud
crawl. While Verkeerderkill Park wouldn’t be torn up to
that degree for the training event, which would mostly
see locals doing sit-ups, burpees and other exercises at
the behest of a trainer, the board passed a motion on
Thursday stipulating that the company must pay full
freight to rent out the park. “It’s a for-profit organization,
so we shouldn’t be spending taxpayer money to help
a private corporation make a profit,” Shawangunk
Supervisor John Valk. “It’s illegal to do that if it doesn’t
benefit the taxpayers in our town.”
Town Councilman Adrian Dewitt mentioned that
the company cost the town’s Parks and Recreation
department a good chunk of money in cleanup costs
when Spartan held a previous event in the municipality.
“The town worked in conjunction with that, and it
wasn’t very successful,” Valk said of that event. This
time around, Spartan w