“People come here upset, feeling bad about their circumstances, sometimes crying,” Richardson notes. “We try to ensure that by the time they leave they’re happy and smiling. We try to uplift everyone as well as help them keep food on their tables.”
“It’s been a great year in the village. Things are getting done.”
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for snow, effective from 9 a.m. Thursday, December 29 to noon the following day.
The town, village, the school district, the Boys and Girls Club and Family of Woodstock teamed up a number of years ago to honor local kids for doing the right thing.
“When you go into a new organization, you spend a lot of your time exploring and discerning. The congregation and I will be working together how to be church in this place in this time. We have a lot to learn together.”
After receiving approval last year to build Country Meadows, a 43-unit mixed-use housing development on North Street, Premier Development will be back before the Saugerties village planning board January 11 seeking to have that approval amended53 units of market-price housing.
The proposal would lower the speed limits on the southern approach to town, starting at the Old Stage Rd. intersection.
At its December 14 meeting, the Saugerties town board honored Brian Sawchuck, Gerry Marzec, James “Spider” Barbour and Paul Pavlovich.
Two community banks serving Ulster and Orange counties, Wallkill Valley Federal Savings & Loan in Wallkill and Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley headquartered in Walden announced their merger last week.
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