A meeting Tuesday night at Woodstock Day School about a controversial quartet of dumps in Saugerties drew about 30 residents, many of whom voiced their concerns about potential harm to their drinking water from the site, and also the impact of the noise associated with the constant influx of trucks laden with construction and demolition debris.
A ruling by a state Supreme Court justice has halted the Town of Saugerties from enforcing stop-work orders issued by its building department to J. Karolys and Son, a local trucking and excavation company that’s now under scrutiny for disposal of construction debris on four properties in the town.
‘You have to trust us, and we have to trust folks…’
A broken water pipe transformed the couple’s Barclay Heights backyard into a veritable mudslide.
The charred remains of 18-20 Russell Street have been further reduced to a pile of blackened debris after demolition began last week. On April 21 of last year, a fire, the cause of which remains a mystery, took the life of Tanya Conklin, 46, mother of six.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) encourages college students to apply for one of 17 summer internships at its offices in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains.
A dump on Route 212 is causing strife between the owner, the town and the dump’s neighbors, who fear for their drinking water.
The Planning Board approved projects on Old Kings Highway and Lauren Tice Road. The first would power approximately 75 homes; the second, 240 homes.
A half-dozen neighbors spoke against the project at a recent meeting of the Village Board, citing potential traffic problems.
On Feb. 23, 2018, authorities said, a Saugerties family awoke to find a crossbow bolt embedded in their living room wall, a broken window and a bloodied axe.