TIMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Vol. 34, No 20 3 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
First Holy
Communion
Heroin use among young people has
grown to epidemic proportions, statistics
suggest. But those who are using that
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VALLEY CENTRAL
Parents get eye-opening facts on drugs
drug, and drugs that lead up to heroin,
are no longer the strung-out addict
stereotype; rather, they could be the kid
next door. Or your own child.
Those facts were part of drug
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Heroin epidemic
By JANE ANDERSON
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awareness presentations at Pine Bush
High School on Monday evening. The
presenters hoped to help parents
Continued on page 4
Gift for the Montgomery Village Museum
By a margin of 1177 -434, Valley Central voters approved the 2016-2017 spending plan. The
$98,533,456 budget represents a 1.91% increase
over last year’s spending plan.
The top three in a field of five candidates
were elected to seats on the Valley Central
Board of Education. Sarah Bunting Messing was
the top vote-getter with 1137 votes. Joseph
Byne, a 2013 Valley Central graduate, won a
board seat with 977 votes. Incumbent Bradley
Conklin, with 884 votes, was re-elected to his
second term. Unsuccessful candidates were
Chris Ann Harper (519) and Nicole Estrada (373).
WALLKILL
Wallkill voters resoundingly approved the
proposed 2016-2017 school budget on Tuesday
with a 688 -218 margin. The $71,912,252 budget
features a zero percent tax levy increase while
retaining staff and bolstering programs throughout the district.
In the annual Board of Education election, four
contenders vied for three seats on the board
and challenger Dustin Palen (602 votes) was
the top vote-getter. Palen, a Sergeant from the
Orange County Sheriff’s Office, earned his first
three-year term on the board. Board President
Joseph LoCicero (600 votes) and board member
Leif Spencer (520 votes) were each re-elected.
Vice President Tom McCullough (506 votes)
came up just short in his bid for a third term.
PINE BUSH
Photo provided
Derrik Wynkoop, President & CEO of Walden Savings Bank, presents Village of Montgomery Historian Marion Wild and the Montgomery Village
Museum with a $1,000 donation Friday at the ribbon-cutting of the bank’s new Montgomery branch. Additional photo on page 27.
The Pine Bush Board of Education race became
uncontested a week before the election, with
candidate Jeffrey Weisman bowing out before
the Meet the Candidates Night at the high
school. That left four candidates for four board
seats: incumbent President Lloyd Greer Jr. and
Vice President Gretchen Meier, and newcomers
Dori Johnson and Matthew Watkins. Besides
Greer and Meier’s three-year seats, the open
seats were the three-year term of board member James Starr, who chose not to run again,
and the one year remaining in the term of
board member Eric Meier, who passed away last
September. The candidate with the fewest votes
will serve the one-year term; it was unknown at
press time who earned the fewest votes.
Voters also approved the district’s proposed
$112,429,077 budget.
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