Vol. 37, No. 24 3 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019
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A good fit for Montgomery?
Residents voice concerns at tense meeting with Medline representatives
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Montgomery residents expressed
numerous concerns over impacts to their
quality of life in a tense meeting with the
Montgomery village board and Medline
Industries, Inc. representatives on June 6.
Located on the east side of NYS
Route 416 and north of Interstate I-84,
the 1.3-million-square-foot warehouse is
proposed in the Town of Montgomery,
just outside Village of Montgomery
limits. The building will replace the
outgrown facility 500,000-square-foot
facility in Wawayanda, which employs
320 workers, according to Town of
Montgomery planning board documents.
The project is currently before the Town
of Montgomery planning board.
Numerous village residents stated
the project would ruin their quality of
life, bringing traffic, noise, pollution, and
visual impacts.
“This is not going to benefit us,”
village resident Amy Jones said.
Chief among residents’ concerns
was an increase in employee and truck
traffic through the village, which already
experiences trucks and congestion at peak
traffic times on narrow intersections.
Dmitry Dukhan, Vice President of
Real Estate for Medline, said Medline will
not send its trucks through the village,
instead routing them through Neelytown
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W alden C elebrates F lag D ay
Silence isn’t
golden
Banned from speaking at public
meeting, residents are fighting back
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Montgomery town residents are
fighting back after some of them were
prohibited from speaking at the public
meeting with the Montgomery Village
board and Medline representatives on
June 4.
During the meeting, Village of
Montgomery
Mayor Stephen
Brescia stated
only
village
residents
could
speak.
When
town
resident Susan
Cockbur n
tried to speak,
B r e s c i a
directed village
MICHAEL SUSSMAN
police to escort
her out. Police CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY
prohibited her
from speaking,
but did not remove her from the meeting
room.
Crawford town resident Jess Gocke
was escorted out when she tried to speak
but was allowed back into the meeting
hall.
Village and town residents have
contracted Michael Sussman, Esq, a
prominent civil rights lawyer located in
Goshen. Cockburn said Sussman believes
residents’ constitutional rights have
been egregiously violated. Sussman, who
has scheduled a press conference for
“ T his is not
America. This
is not the
country
we all love.”
Alana Velez, Little Miss Walden, is assisted by Walden Mayor Sue Rumbold in leading the Pledge of Allegiance during Sunday’s annual Flag Day
Ceremony at Walden’s Veteren’s Memorial Park.
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