Topics include: critiquing Faso’s “accomplishments,” thanks for emergency medical help at Stallions game, America alone, Faso tells letter-writer to scram, taking issue with column on Saugerties politics, invitation to Indivisible Saugerties meetings, county Legislature race and more.
Want to help the local bat population? Put up a bat house. It won’t save the bats from white-nosed syndrome, but it ups the odds that surviving bats will reproduce.
Maurice took risks…In his research on mob-tinged dumping, Hinchey had to undergo a number of unpleasant confrontations. One of the more grim was the “handshake that wouldn’t end.”
Ulster councilman and deputy supervisor John Morrow was unanimously elected chair of the Ulster County Industrial Development Agency by his colleagues this Wednesday morning, July 12, at the county office building in Kingston. He succeeds banker Mike Horodyski, a resident of Highland who resigned last month after holding the unpaid position since 2013.
“Only the ‘bad apples’ will be affected by the police patrol,” writes the safety/courtesy coordinator for the Hudson Valley Rail Trail. “Cyclists behaving responsibly should welcome them.”
For upstate residents, Thursday, June 29 marked the first day of operations for popular ridesharing services Lyft and Uber. For this particular (transplanted) upstate resident, it also marked a birthday and an opportunity to test my theory that the ridesharing services might usher in a new era of car-optional country living. (Spoiler alert — it won’t, at least not yet).
Two current board members with a friendly relationship will face off for supervisor … why wasn’t Lamb cross-endorsed? … thoughts on why the GOP won’t be caucusing this year and what impact that might have on the election … an explanation for the brief “Helsmoortel for Town Clerk” talk … what will the conservatives do?
The driver in Kingston’s first official Uber pickup is a native Kingstonian who attended high school in Saugerties. A 2011 graduate of SUNY-New Paltz, he’s an adjunct professor there and also has his own film production business.
Topics include: the health care bill’s regressive redistribution, Saugerties’ true conservatives, holding one’s nose in the presence of repugnance, Trump’s behavior undermines nation’s standing, disappointment with Price Chopper’s bike rack, Medicaid for all!
For better or worse, people like their government close, even if it costs more. Will the county’s application pass final muster? Could be. After that would come the heavy lifting.