Vol. 37, No. 6 3 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019
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Municipalities face cuts in state funding
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
A proposed cut to state funding for municipalities in
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2019-20 executive budget
has towns and villages scrambling to fill holes in their
budgets.
The Aid to and Incentives to Municipality (AIM)
program distributes state aid to municipalities to use
Montgomery’s
Building Boom
however they wish.
Governor Cuomo’s 2019-20 executive budget proposes
the elimination of AIM funding for municipalities whose
AIM amount is less than 2 percent of their local fiscal
year 2017 expenditures.
If passed, the proposal would cut $16.4 million from
the budgets of approximately 90 percent of the state’s
villages. It would also cut about $42.7 million from the
budgets of the state’s towns.
Maybrook will lose $13,179 in funding, Walden will
lose $47,095, and the Village of Montgomery will lose
$14,162, all of which represent less than .5 percent of each
village’s 2017 expenditures.
Crawford will lose $23,088, or .28 percent of its 2017
expenditures. Montgomery will lose $68,115, Gardiner
$16,097 and Shawangunk $33,467, each of which represent
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Take Your Child to the Library Day
A complete guide to the Town of
Montgomery’s largest building projects
Dominick Lionetti, owner of
Weber’s Hardware in Wallkill,
will soon close his store
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
The Town of Montgomery might teem
with construction in the coming years as
numerous large projects sit before town
and village boards.
Many of the proposed projects are
warehouses, except City Winery and the
Chandler Lane project in the Village of
Montgomery and the Galaxy project in
the Village of Maybrook.
New projects promise new jobs. The
majority of jobs from the two largest
projects—Project Sailfish and Medline
Industries—will offer jobs around the
U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate of Orange
County’s average per capita income of
$32,600.
All three of the largest proposed
projects—Project Sailfish, Medline
and the Galaxy Project—requested or
received tax exemptions or grants. City
Winery, a proposed winery and event
space in the Village of Montgomery, also
received state grants.
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End of a
Wallkill era
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Laura Fitzgerald
Aubri plays with Legos during Wallkill Library’s National Take Your Child to the Library Day.
Story on page 2.
Dominick Lionetti knows the value of
hard work.
The owner of Weber’s Hardware in
Wallkill took his first official job in eighth
grade, working at the grocery store with
his father. Before that, he took odd jobs
mowing lawns and shoveling snow.
A Bronx native, Lionetti moved to
Wallkill in 1997 to raise his daughter,
Nicole. He took ownership of the store on
Jan. 1, 2006.
Lionetti said he liked the small-town
feel, complete with holiday activities
and community events. He used to judge
house lights at Christmas. His favorite
event was Halloween, when children and
even adults would dress up.
“It was a cute little town, it really was,”
Lionetti said.
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SERVING CRAWFORD, GARDINER, MAYBROOK, MONTGOMERY, PINE BUSH, SHAWANGUNK, WALDEN AND WALLKILL