T IMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Misaligned
roads
Another Dunkin Donuts,
another faulty intersection
in the Town of Montgomery
Vol. 35, No 18 3 WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017
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It’s not a joke
PBHS stages mock accident before Junior Prom
By RACHEL COLEMAN
“If we don’t do it now, it’s just going
to get worse and worse,” said Town of
Montgomery Planning Board member
William Kelly.
A proposal for a new Dunkin Donuts at
the intersection of Route 17K and North
Drury Lane (across from the Valero gas
station) drew concern from planning
board members for the misalignment of
North and South Drury Lanes.
Kelly suggested the project’s
engineers that they slide the building to
the northwest, freeing space to realign the
roads in the future.
“I don’t know if it could be done or
not,” said Mike Morgante, representing
the applicant.
Morgante explained that they are
dealing with constraints ranging from
wetlands to stormwater management and
septic location. The NYSDOT is also
requiring no left turns out of the property
onto Route 17K.
Planning Board Chairman Fred
Reichle reassured him, stating that it
wouldn’t need to be a perpendicular road,
that an S-shape would be okay and they
weren’t asking the applicants to construct
the road now.
“That would be a lot of donuts,” said
Reichle.
Kelly explained that they weren’t
trying to hurt the project, but if they
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Photos by Robert Curtis/Ulster BOCES Community Relations
An EMT from the Pine Bush Volunteer Ambulance Corps tends to “injured” passengers Andrew Guido and Jade Imparato during the
recent mock accident drill at Pine Bush High School.
On April 28, the day of the junior
prom, Pine Bush High School (PBHS)
staged a mock accident drill with
the help of a number of local police,
emergency services, and community
organizations. Students in the school’s
junior and senior classes witnessed the
sobering exercise, which simulated a
prom night drunk-driving accident and
its devastating consequences for the
students involved.
Student actors from the PBHS Drama
Club assumed the roles of accident
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