TIMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Vol. 34, No 48 3 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016
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Crawford adopts drug eviction law
By JESSICA COHEN
[email protected]
As drug addiction issues continue to escalate in
Orange County, the Crawford town board follows the
Montgomery
passes
Peddler’s Law
examples of Walden and Maybrook with relevant local
laws. At a recent town board meeting, the board passed
two of them.
One law, “Rental Properties—Illegal Drug Activity,”
allows the town to require eviction of tenants found
guilty twice in one year of “using or occupying the
dwelling in whole or in part” for possession, sale, or
manufacture of illegal drugs. Should the landlord fail to
‘Reingoat”
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Final stop for
rail museum?
By JESSICA COHEN
[email protected]
By JESSICA COHEN
[email protected]
Anyone who intends to sell goods or
services door to door in the Village of
Montgomery will need to wear a badge
with their photo and carry a certificate,
both issued by the village clerk, according
to a new local law recently passed by the
village board. Applying for the badge and
certificate requires particular kinds of
photo identification and a background
check, as well as a fee, yet to be determined,
according to a draft of the law.
However, such common door to door
visitors as Girl Scouts selling cookies
and religious groups promoting their
religious beliefs are not bound by these
requirements. Certain clauses make
exemptions for “Persons advocating or
disseminating information for, against or
in conjunction with any religious belief or
political position,” and “Persons soliciting
in good faith for the benefit of any bona
fide fraternal, educational, religious,
civic, or charitable organization.”
But according to the new law, all door to
door sales or advocacy is prohibited where
a resident displays a “No Solicitation”
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Dasher, Dancer and Prancer, et al couldn’t make it Sunday when Santa arrived in Maybrook,
but Maybrook’s new 4-H Troop stepped in with a pair of goats to fill in. More photos of
Maybrook’s Holiday Tree Lighting can be found on page 21.
The Maybrook Railroad Museum
is rounding a curve into uncertain
territory, as members of the group
who maintain and staff it age or move
away. Questions about the future of the
museum arose recently with discussions
about the expiration of its charter, which
gives it nonprofit status. However, the
charter expired 22 years ago, said Diane
Sanboothe, a member of the Maybrook
Railroad Historical Society, which runs
the museum.
“It’s the village board that’s looking into
reinstating the charter,” she said. “But no
one from the village board sits on our
board. I don’t know what they’re planning
to do, and I’d like them to explain why.”
Currently the museum group has only
five active members, she says, and only
one is under 65. The others are in their
late seventies, and long retired railroad
worker Tony Marano just turned 92.
“I don’t know who will take over the
museum,” said Samboothe, noting that
most of the time Marano and her husband
Robert operate the museum, receiving
visitors on weekends, from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m., April to October.
Robert Sanboothe, who has been a
member of the society for 22 years, says
he and Marano are the only members of
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