There was a giddy air of celebration last Wednesday, January 2 at the Mulberry House Senior Center in Middletown, where newly elected State Senate District 42 representative Jen Metzger of Rosendale was being sworn in, along with returning District 100 assemblywoman Aileen Gunther of Forestburgh.
Ritayik becomes the first woman to hold the position of chief in the 50-year history of the SUNY New Paltz University Police Department.
Legislator Tracey Bartels of Gardiner was chosen tonight as the next chair of the Ulster County Legislature, defeating previous chair Ken Ronk by a 12-11 vote.
With a Comprehensive Plan drafted in 2004 that was never fully implemented and a Zoning Code adopted in 2008 that didn’t anticipate modern trends in vacationing, the Town of Gardiner has been wrestling in recent years with development proposals that seem like square pegs in round holes.
Walsh has a lot left on her plate, following a massive multi-pronged, multiyear effort to overhaul the town’s aging infrastructure and to remedy the damage wrought by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee back in 2011.
The town supervisor discusses what’s to come in 2019, his last year in office.
The leaders of the village and town discuss upcoming projects, possible local laws and other issues.
Even as village of New Paltz officials were celebrating a $750,000 grant to further improve the leaky sewer mains under the streets, they held a public hearing on an application to secure yet more funding for this ongoing project.
Zero Place will include 46 apartments and a ground floor of retail shops, and it is located at the corner of Mullberry Street and Route 32 North in New Paltz. Project engineer Barry Medenbach predicts that construction will take between 14 and 16 months to complete.
An African-American man said he suffered a broken jaw and dislocated teeth at the hands of police officers who struck him while he was handcuffed and seated in the back of a patrol car in September. The police commission said it found “no evidence” the man’s extensive injuries were caused by the police.