TIMES
WALLKILL VALLEY
Vol. 33, No 40 3 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015
Much-needed public recreation, or
noisy nuisance?
Those were the two sides of a disagreement at Thursday’s Shawangunk
Town Board meeting, where the owner of
a local livestock and horse business railed
against the Wallkill Football League’s use
of Galeville Park.
The board also received the tentative 2016 budget from Town Clerk Jane
Rascoe. Although the board has only
begun looking at the numbers, and figures are subject to change, the town is
looking at a 0.17 percent increase in its tax
rate.
But before the budget was released,
the Town Board got an earful about the
football league.
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Galeville noise irks neighbors
By JANE ANDERSON
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“This is a hobby for them, but it’s a
livelihood for me,” Donna Spano told the
board, comparing the recreational league
with her business. The league practices
and holds football games in the front
field of the park, which is directly across
Long Lane from her driveway, she said.
The noise from coaches’ whistles upset
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Progress
for Taylor
Biomass in
Montgomery
By RACHEL COLEMAN
Cozy new furnishing for the Vikings
Bond Brungard
Brad Conklin, Valley Central school board president, cuts the ribbon for the new stands at Valley Central High School, prior to Friday night’s
home opener. The new stands have room for 1,600 spectators, an increase from the 50-year-old bleachers that held 950 and were demolished
shortly after graduation last year. Game coverage, additional photo, on page 44.
There may be light at the end of the
tunnel for the garbage-to-energy facility
Jim Taylor has been itching to build in
the Town of Montgomery for the past 15
years.
“I’m here with good news for a
change,” said Taylor, owner of Taylor
Biomass Energy, as he spoke to the
Maybrook Village Board at their meeting
last week.
The $275 million project has faced a
multitude of hurdles, setbacks and delays
over the years, the most recent one being
the evaporation of funding through the
Department of Energy. Last-week however, the Town of Montgomery decided to move forward on the tax-exempt
bonds needed by Taylor to secure private
financing.
The Capital Resource Corporation,
formed by the town’s Industrial
Development Agency and approved by
the Town Board, will serve as the facilitator for the $200 million in tax-exempt
bonds. The agency will issue the bonds,
which will be sold on public market and
the funds from those sales then loaned to
Taylor.
According to Chris Martell, attorney
for both the IDA and CRC, there is no
repayment obligation for either agency
or the Town of Montgomery. Instead, all
of the responsibility rests on Taylor.
That burden seemed to sit comfortably on Taylor’s shoulders as he waited
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