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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Wallkill River Bridge re-opens
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
After several months of construction,
the long awaited Wallkill Bridge has
finally re-opened.
The bridge was shut down in early
July after the Ulster County Department
of Public Works determined that it needed
rehabilitation, causing local businesses
to feel the economic burden of losing
customers who used the Wallkill Bridge
to visit their shops.
In October, Laura Hernandez of
Countryside Cafe noted how the bridge
closure was affecting the cafe’s business.
“Customers who used to come here go
to other places because now it takes an
extra 5, 6, or 8 minutes to come here, or
they get lost,” Hernandez said in October.
The bridge construction was initially
expected to be completed in November.
“Everybody worked extremely hard to
make [the bridge] what it is today, which
is a bridge consistent with the historic
nature of what this has always been,”
said Ulster County Executive Mike Hein.
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Wallkill residents take their first steps on the new Wallkill Bridge, which was shut down for several months due to construction.
“The key is to make easy access for local
businesses before the holidays.”
Hein was joined by Wallkill residents
and local elected officials on the new
bridge for a ribbon cutting ceremony on
Monday.
Shawangunk cookie walk a sweet delight
eople lined up bright and early outside of the
Reformed Church of Shawangunk this past Saturday
for the Women’s Fellowship’s annual cookie walk.
Cookies were selling for $6/pound and were all
homemade baked by the congregation.
“Some of our most popular cookies are the crescent
almonds and snyders,” said fellowship member Patty
Myers. “They’re gone in fifteen minutes.”
All proceeds collected from the Cookie Walk will be
donated to several organizations at the end of the year
including St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and
local food pantries such as the Food Bank of the Hudson
Valley.
The Women’s Fellowship meets the first Sunday of
every month at 12:30 p.m. at the Reformed Church of
Shawangunk.
- Jaspreet Gill
Homemade cookies were sold at the Reformed Church of
Shawangunk’s Women’s Fellowship annual cookie walk.
From left: Lis Tucker, Wilma Gilbert and Patty Myers, members of the Reformed Church of Shawangunk’s Women’s
Fellowship, host their annual cookie walk benefitting local food pantries and organizations.