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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, August 21, 2019
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 28
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PUBLIC AGENDA
MONDAY, AUGUST 26
Valley Central Board of Education,
6:30 p.m. Administration building, 944
Route 17K, Montgomery.
Town of Montgomery Planning
Board, 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 110 Bracken
Road, Montgomery.
Maybrook Village Board, 7 p.m. Village
Hall, 111 Schipps Lane.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27
Montgomery Fire District Work
Session. 7:30 p.m. Montgomery
Firehouse, 136 Ward Street.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Gardiner Town Board. 7 p.m. Town
Hall, Route 44-55, Gardiner.
Town of Shawangunk Planning
Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 14 Central Ave.,
Wallkill.
Montgomery Village Board, 7:30 p.m.
Village Hall, 133 Clinton Street.
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Car show raises $2,000 for cancer center
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Car enthusiasts and community
members strolled down Clinton Street
last Thursday for the 2nd annual Orange
County Sheriff Carl E. DuBois and
Hudson Valley Cancer Resource Center
2nd Summer Car Show. Held in the Village
of Montgomery, the community event
featured more than two dozen entries,
music, food and more.
Casey MacDonald, Founder, President
and CEO of the Hudson Valley Cancer
Resource Center, said the show raised
about $2,000 for the center.
Donations benefit the patient navigation
program, which provides resources for
cancer patients and their families from
diagnosis to survivorship or end of
life care. This includes assistance with
medical costs, transportation, lodging,
insurance assistance and more.
“We’re so grateful to anyone who
donates or gives us a hand to do this type
of work,” MacDonald said.
While the car show was a fundraising
opportunity for the center, it was also a
place for car enthusiasts to gather.
Frank Glynn showed his 1967
Volkswagen Beetle. With a surfboard, a
cooler and other beach items strapped
to the roof, the little cream colored car
looked like it was ready for a day of fun in
the sand and sun.
Glynn said the car is perfect for leisurely
cruises in good weather. Originally from
Puerto Rico, the car has a few features
unique to the European model.
“I love it,” Glynn said, smiling wide.
While there were several small cars,
there were also many long, low cars
typical of older models. Steven Martindale
Frank Glynn shows his 1967 V.W. Beetle.
Steven Martindale shows his 1970 Chrysler
Newport, one of only 1,120 models made.
showed his 1970 Chrysler Newport, the
last year Chrysler convertibles were
manufactured.
“It’s a pleasure to drive,” Martindale
said. “It just floats down the road.”
George Charles shows his 1966 Impala.
Walden woman
causes Valley
Central school
lockdown
A Walden woman was charged with
making a terroristic threat against
Valley Central School District on
Tuesday.
At approximately 10:10 a.m.
on Tuesday, Aug. 20, the Town of
Montgomery
Police
Department
conducted
an
investigation
of
a terroristic threat made to the
Valley Central District, according to
Investigator Stephen Ragni. The threat
was allegedly made in anger of an
upcoming school bond vote issue. The
threat was received by a phone call to
the administration building.
The threat disrupted the voting
process and the Town of Montgomery
police responded to a lockdown of the
high school by maintaining a security
presence.
By 11:20 a.m., the police identified and
located Alice Lubitz, 63, of Walden, as
a person of interest, Ragni said. After
transporting the individual to police
headquarters, Lubitz was charged with
making a terroristic threat, a class D
felony.
The school lockdown was canceled
shortly after Lubitz was in custody
and there is no further apparent threat
to the school district, Ragni said. The
investigation is ongoing and further
charges may be added.
Shawangunk Town Board approves
By TED REMSNYDER
As the community around his Indian
Springs Road home has continued to grow
in numbers over the past two decades,
Shawangunk resident Peter Meisel has
grown increasingly concerned about
the 55 miles per hour speed limit on
the county road outside his house. The
twisty road has no shoulders, and the
homeowner has frequently seen cars
barreling through the area.
After Meisel informed the
Shawangunk Town Board about the
issue, the council unanimously approved
a resolution during its meeting on Aug.
15 to ask the county to request that the
state Department of Transportation
study the speed limit on Indian Springs
Road. The resolution is the first step in
a process that will most likely stretch
out over a number of months. “We have
a form that we have to fill out which we
send to the County Department of Public
Works Commissioner (Thomas Jackson)
and then if he agrees with it, he’ll just
forward it to the state and they do a study
and approve it,” Town Supervisor John
Valk said. “It can take six to eight months.
We had one on Bruyn Turnpike near the
highway garage. We just got notice of that
four or five weeks ago. I think we asked
for that last fall.”
Meisel said he made the initial request
to lower the speed limit because the
current situation is untenable. “I’ve been
there for 20 years now and in the past
it was very rural, but there’s a lot more
houses there and a lot more children
living there,” he told the board. “Even
today we were dealing with an issue with
garbage pails all over the road and there
was an accident. I was cleaning it up
and almost got plastered three or four
times by people speeding down the road
going above 55. There was a State Trooper
right next to me and he said, ‘What are
these people doing?’ So not only does the
road bend a little bit, but it’s also very
hilly, so there’s a lot of hidden driveways.
People are flying down that road and it’s