WALLKILL VALLEY
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Vol . 35 , No 7 3 WEDNESDAY , FEBRUARY 15 , 2017 3 ONE DOLLAR
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Montgomery to pierce tax cap , seek raises for employees
By JESSICA COHEN jcohen @ tcnewspapers . com
Village of Montgomery residents may pay higher taxes to give raises to village employees , if Mayor Steve Brescia has his way .
Walden receives sidewalk grant
At a public hearing for a local law to authorize the village board to override the state tax cap of . 0115 , Brescia at first neglected to hold the public hearing . He opened the board vote , and the board followed his lead , voting to authorize themselves to override the cap . Village attorney Kevin Dowd then reminded Brescia to
Coaching legend hold the public hearing .
When Brescia did open the hearing , he said , “ We ’ ll pierce the tax cap if necessary to give village employees a 2-percent raise .”
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Stop work order slapped on Montgomery business
By JESSICA COHEN jcohen @ tcnewspapers . com
By TED REMSNYDER
Walden residents will soon be able to stroll along refurbished sidewalks in the village after the municipality received an $ 80,000 grant to renovate the walkways on East Main Street from Highland Avenue to the Sunoco gas station . The village board passed a resolution at its Feb . 7 meeting to accept the county grant , which came through the Community Development Block Grant program . Walden originally applied for $ 125,000 in sidewalk repair funding .
The East Main Street work is expected to commence in the spring if all goes according to plan . “ The sidewalks are in desperate need of repair and it ’ s been like that for awhile ,” Walden Mayor Susan
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Wallkill wrestling Jeff Cuilty coached his final competition Saturday after guiding three teams over his 37-year tenure . Story on page 34 .
What is now Fusion Graphics , owned by Kyle Venetis , at 1130 State Route 17K should only have been an enclosed storage pavilion , according to the building permit , said Town of Montgomery building inspector Walter Schmidt . He put a stop work order on the building on Monday , which prohibits occupation . But that was also the day the store opened , according to a man who answered the phone in the store on Tuesday .
A neighbor , Mike Young , said people continue to come and go .
“ The store is fully stocked with a cash register , display window , shelving , and shirts hanging from a rack ,” Young said on Tuesday morning .
He and other neighbors have been Continued on page 3
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