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2 Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, January 2, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 27 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 PUBLIC AGENDA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 Town of Crawford Re-organization meeting. 7:30 a.m. Town Hall, 121 Route 302, Pine Bush. Valley Central Board of Education, 6 p.m. Administration building, 944 Route 17K, Montgomery. It is anticipated that the board will move into executive ses- sion and that no action will be taken. Crawford Zoning Board of Appeals, 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 121 Route 302, Pine THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 Montgomery Town Board, 7 p.m. Town Government Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. Shawangunk Town Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 14 Central Ave., Wallkill Gardiner Town Board. 7 p.m. Town Hall, Route 44-55, Gardiner MONDAY, JANUARY 7 Town of Montgomery Planning Board, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery. HOW TO REACH US OFFICE: 300 Stony Brook Court Newburgh, NY 12550 PHONE: 845-561-0170, FAX: 845-561-3967 Emails may be directed to the following : ADVERTISING [email protected] CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS [email protected] TO REACH THE EDITOR [email protected] FOR THE SPORTS DEPARTMENT [email protected] PUBLIC NOTICES [email protected] WEBSITE www.timescommunitypapers.com The Wallkill Valley Times, (USPS 699-490) is a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday at Newburgh, NY 12550, with offices at 300 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY. Single copy: $1 at newsstand. By mail in Orange, Ulster or Sullivan Counties: $40 annually, $44 out of county. Periodicals permit at Newburgh, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wallkill Valley Times, 300 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY 12550. Walden thanks Larkin for his service By TED REMSNYDER Just in time for Christmas, Walden received a present they’ve long been waiting to find under the tree. But in this case it wasn’t Santa delivering the gift but outgoing New York State Senator William Larkin, who provided the village with $300,000 in funding for its long-desired community center. Larkin secured the money as part of the State and Municipal Facilities Program (a SAM grant) and presented the funds to the village administration in the form of an oversized check at a ceremony on Dec. 13. At the Village Board meeting five days later, the group expressed its gratitude towards Larkin, who is retiring at the end of the year, for obtaining a sizable chunk of the funds needed to make the community center a reality. “Very grateful to Senator Larkin for his gift of $300,000 towards the community center,” Walden Mayor Susan Rumbold said during the meeting. “Someone asked where the rest of the money is going to come from, and I guess my answer to that is that Christmas is coming and if some kind soul would love to give me a diamond necklace I’m taking it even though I don’t have the money right now to buy the earrings that match. So if somebody’s going to give me a gift like that, I’m going to take it and be very grateful for it, and we will work on the rest of the funding. But thank you to Senator Larkin for his gift, I thought it was wonderful.” The village has been working for years to procure the necessary funds to build a new community center in James W. Olley Community Park that would serve as a gathering spot for local residents. The grant from Larkin should cover nearly half of the money needed to build the proposed center. “The senator has discretionary funds and he used part of those to give us the grant towards the community center,” Village Manager John Revella said. “We know that the budget for the community center is around $650,000, so we wanted to try to get around half. We know that we have some projects at work in the village that would be contributing parkland use funds towards the village, which should be enough to match and complete the project. It’s not a matching grant, so if we can’t we may have to bond for some of the funds towards it as well.” The village requested the funds from Larkin’s office, and this time it came through after previous attempts to get state funding over the years have not been granted. The plans for the community center date back nearly a decade, Retiring State Senator Bill Larkin visited Walden on Dec. 14 to announce a $300,000 grant for a recreation center. He was greeted by Mayor Susan Rumbold. though the final details still have to be crafted. “We proposed it in our 2010-2012 comprehensive plan, it was in there in the park section,” Revella said. “There’s no final blueprints because we haven’t spent that kind of money on it yet. We have the preliminary information of what it would be, what it would cost and the location.” The timeline for getting a shovel into the ground to start building the center still has to be hammered out, but according to the terms of the SAM grant, the earliest start date is still more than a year away. “The grant monies won’t even be available until probably the spring of 2020,” Revella explained. “So we’re looking at a project in the spring or early summer of 2020.” During Tuesday’s meeting, the board set a public hearing for its next session on Jan. 15 for Local Law No. 9 of 2018 to amend the Village Planning Board and the Village Zoning Board of Appeals mailing protocols. Under the current code, applicants must mail a notice of every appeal for a variance to the owners of certain designated properties by certified mail and also publish a notice of the appeal in the newspaper. Under the amended law, which is still being crafted by Village Attorney Dave Donovan to meet the board’s requests, the village will take over the mailing process, as residents will no longer be obligated to send out the mailings themselves. “Such notice shall be by first-class mail in envelopes which have been addressed and on which required first-class postage has been paid for and affixed by the applicant, to be mailed by the Board Secretary or other employee or of Officer of the Village who shall complete and file with the Board listing each address to which the notice was sent,” the amendment to the code reads. All costs associated with the mailing shall be set forth in the Village Fee Schedule, as may be amended from time to time, and shall be borne by the applicant.” By streamlining the process and putting it under the village umbrella, the law is designed to save applicants time on money. The notices will be mailed at least 15 days “before the date of said hearing to the owners of all property abutting that held by the applicant in the immediate area and all other owners within 300 feet,” the law states.