Vol. 37, No. 10 3 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019
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City Winery gains final approval $1 million
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
City Winery gained final site plan
approval at a Village of Montgomery
planning board meeting on Feb. 27.
The project will turn the old
Montgomery Worsted Mills property
into a fully operational vineyard and
event space that includes a restaurant, a
distillery, tasting rooms, 14 guest rooms,
an outdoor ceremony and performance
areas, and parking for approximately
300 cars and loading areas, according to
Village of Montgomery planning board
documents.
Founder and CEO Michael Dorf said
renovation will start this week and he
hopes to begin planting in the spring, as
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Filling the purse of Safe Homes
increase
projected
Pine Bush begins
budget preparations
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Photo provided
Montgomery Montessori School collected gently used handbags filled with feminine toiletries, the whole month of February as part of our
“Fill Your Purse” project. The donations were delivered to The Safe Homes of Orange County on February 28. Safe Homes of Orange County’s
mission is “to work toward the elimination of intimate partner violence, teen dating violence, and trafficking by providing comprehensive
support services to victims and their children, and by increasing public awareness about these issues and encouraging accountability for
perpetrators.” A few of the school ambassadors helped deliver 70 donated bags to the Safe Homes office in Newburgh.
The Pine Bush School Board started its
budget preparations last Tuesday night
with the introduction of its preliminary
staffing, technology and instructional
budgets.
Assistant
Superintendent
for
Instruction Donna Geidel said the
preliminary
instructional
budget
might see an increase of more than $1
million. The district’s 2018-19 budget is
approximately $116.2 million.
In
special
education,
Geidel
recommended the creation of a new
Collaborative Academic Social Emotional
Teaching and Learning Environment
(CASTLE) class at Pine Bush Elementary
(PBE) and the addition of a special
education teacher, two teaching assistants
and a behavioral specialist to staff it. In the
CASTLE program, students with severe
delays in social emotional regulation work
within the general education curriculum
and receive small group instruction with
positive reinforcement.
Geidel also recommended the addition
of a school psychologist at Pine Bush High
School (PBHS) and an assistant director of
special programs to assist with committee
of pre-school special education, out-of-
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