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THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 VOLUME 14; ISSUE 25 ULSTER PUBLISHING, INC. WWW.HUDSONVALLEYONE.COM KINGSTON TIMES ONE DOLLAR FIFTY CENTS BUSINESS CITY GOVERNMENT weekend. The passage of the law follows a two- IT’S THE ECONOMY year campaign by housing activists in New Geddy Sveikauskas York City and Upstate who formed a coali- Reform for renters tion to lobby for reform both in Albany and in communities statewide. That coalition was instrumental in flipping several Sen- Tenants’ rights significantly expanded ate seats — including some in the Hudson Valley — thus breaking Republicans’ Movin’ by new state legislation BY JESSE J. SMITH decades-long hold on the chamber and clearing the way for a flood of progressive ajor changes to New tection Act will also open the door, for legislation. The renters’ rights bills faced York’s housing laws could the first time, to rent stabilization laws fierce opposition from commercial real on up offer additional protec- in upstate communities. The package of estate interests, traditionally one of New tions to renters in Ulster bills emerged from a deal between the York’s most powerful lobbies. wo Kingston projects County. The revamped state Assembly and Senate and was signed “It really was a matter of unifying M years in the making marked version of 1974’s Emergency Tenant Pro- into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the (continued on page 2) significant milestones this week, taking important and remember those who were buried T COMMUNITY steps toward their larger here “with gratitude and sorrow.” The ambitions. In doing so, they provided clues Rev. Evelyn Clarke poured a libation in about the new directions toward which acknowledgement of “those who made the Ulster County economy is evolving. the Middle Passage, who were sold on They are harbingers of change. the auction block, those who had their On Monday, architect Scott Dutton’s children snatched from their arms, who 68,944-square-foot Fuller building at 45 labored in grist and sawmills, who built Pine Grove Ave. hosted Mayor Steve No- the houses of stone that stand today as a ble’s announcement of the expansion of monument to them. … Rise up and live embedded business intelligence software in us and we will not fail to honor you,” analytics firm Exago. A longtime occupant Clarke intoned. of office space on the corner of Wall and Odell Winfield, director and board John streets, Connecticut-headquartered chair of the Library at the A.J. Wil- Exago is moving its Kingston jobs to the liams-Myers African Roots Center, said Fuller building. It will occupy 8,800 with streets and buildings named after square feet on the third floor of the totally slaveholders, African Americans needed renovated former historic needle-trades to reclaim their space. “We need to watch and hat-making plant, formerly one of over our ancestors … this is about a war Kingston’s largest factories employing against bad history,” he said. Historian hundreds of people. Exago, which cur- Ford, now 101, was seated in the front row rently employs 63 people between its two and briefly spoke, as did Steve Rosenberg, locations, said it will employ 40 in its new PHYLLIS McCABE executive director at The Scenic Hudson Kingston space and expects to add 25 more The women’s group “Good Gourd” performed music and a water ceremony to bless Land Trust, which contributed $40,000 the burial ground. in the next two years. to the fundraising effort; KLT Executive On Tuesday, developer Charles Blaich- Director Julia Farr; Tyrone Wilson, ex- man formally opened the Hotel Kinsley, ecutive director of Harambee; and Joe Kingston’s first boutique hotel, at the Sacred soil Diamond, an archaeologist and professor former bank building at 301 Wall St. in at SUNY New Paltz. the Stockade — directly across John Street Ceremony celebrates protection of In 1990, Ford and Diamond walked from the space Exago will now be vacating. down the street and realized 157 Pine, the The hotel portion of the Kinsley will be Pine Street burial ground BY LYNN WOODS very deep back yard of which extends back opening in the coming weeks and is now 225 feet, matched the site of “the coloured accepting reservations. The vision behind early 30 years after organizer Micah Blumenthal conducted burial ground” that Ford had noticed was the place is in diametric contrast to the city historian Edwin a prayerful mediation, encouraging the inscribed on an 1870 map of Kingston, now-numerous standard cookie-cutter Ford first identified an crowd to place one hand on the ground (continued on page 8) (continued on page 15) NAfrican-American burial ground on Pine Street and after repeated attempts by local historians to protect the site failed, it’s finally hap- FACES OF KINGSTON pened. The Kingston Land Trust (KLT), in Morgan Y. Evans partnership with Harambee, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and celebrating African-American history, has acquired the historic site at 157 Pine. Within a mere six months, it raised $140,000 to purchase Shawna-Marie and preserve the foreclosed property, which has a dilapidated house on the site. The deal closed on May 23, and last Elizabeth Brown Saturday morning, the now-recognized aces of Kingston is a old so it’s been about 24 years sacred ground was officially sanctified chance for all of us to know one now. At three years old my family by five gourd-shaking, turbaned women another better and celebrate the moved to Delaware for my father’s in white, who led a crowd of 100 people wonderful folks in our midst. job. We lived there for a while and to the shady, overgrown backyard in a F This week the delightful then moved to Auburn, N.Y. and “Community Gratitude” ceremony. 38-year-old Shawna-Marie Elizabeth then back to Kingston. Kingston Kingston resident, activist and arts Brown joins us to share her feelings and definitely has always been home, experiences. almost my entire family lives here.

Morgan Y. Evans: How long have you MYE: What is your earliest fond lived in Kingston? memory of here? One of my earliest fond Shawna: I’ve been back in Kingston since I Shawna: MORGAN Y. EVANS was about 14 years (continued on page 7) Shawna-Marie Elizabeth Brown. 2 THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES

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communities around the idea that tenants in every zip code deserve protection,” said Rebecca Garrard, chief housing organizer for the progressive group Citizen Action of New York and the Upstate coordinator of the Housing Justice Campaign. “This is a case where people power won out over lobbying dollars.” The new laws strengthen existing protections, or create new ones for renters statewide. The laws apply to all rental properties. The new provisions include: • Limiting security deposits to one month’s rent. The new law also requires landlords to provide a detailed explanation, in writing, if they choose not to return the deposit. • Stronger protections against “retaliatory evic- tion.” Tenants can challenge an eviction by demon- strating that the action was taken in retaliation for complaints about building conditions. Previously, the law only protected tenants who made a complaint to a government agency, like a municipal building department. The new law allows tenants to claim retaliation based on complaints to the landlord or PHYLLIS McCABE building superintendent. • Establishes a stay of eviction based on hardship. Courts may stay an eviction for up to one year if the Face of determination tenant can demonstrate that they cannot find similar housing in the neighborhood and that the eviction VICTORIA MCCARTHY OF MOUNT TREMPER, a member of Sport of Iron gym in Kingston, prepares to would produce some kind of hardship like limiting lift 308 pounds in the open division of the New York State Powerlifting Championships last weekend. Some their access to healthcare or requiring children to 150 men and women competed in the offi cial USA Powerlifting event. change school districts in the middle of the school year. The hardship provision applies to eviction for any purpose, including nonpayment of rent. Kingston Tenants Union. “When we testified about it ommon Council Majority Leader Rennie • Bans the use of “blacklists” of purportedly at the state Senate, I feel like that was a tipping point.” Scott-Childress (D-Ward 3) expressed cautious troublesome tenants. For the past decade, Kingston In Kingston, the Common Council passed a me- Csupport for rent regulation, but said he still Landlord Support has maintained such a list, using morializing resolution has questions about public records of evictions. signaling support for the [ ] what powers commu- • Makes unlawful evictions, such as when a land- reforms; Mayor Steve ‘ This bill does nothing to nities would actually lord clears out and apartment and changes the locks Noble hailed the passage contribute to the development of have to regulate rents. while a tenant is out, a misdemeanor crime punishable of the bill. It will now Scott-Childress added by fines of up to $10,000. be up lawmakers in the aff ordable housing. Nothing at all.’ that rent regulation • Requires landlords to provide 30 days notice various Ulster County had to be viewed in the to tenants if they plan to raise the rent by more than municipalities to decide — Mike Kelly, New York State context of a holistic 5 percent or do not plan to renew the lease. whether to implement approach to housing is- But housing activists say that the biggest potential rent regulation. Association of Realtors sues that might include impact of the legislation is a provision that would allow “Our next step is to go regulation of short- communities statewide to opt-into rent stabilization. back to our local elected term rentals, voluntary Currently, rent stabilization is only authorized in the officials, sit down with agreements with small five boroughs of New York City and Westchester, them and think about how to get this enacted,” said landlords to limit rent hikes in exchange for tax breaks Rockland and Nassau counties. In communities with Tyler. or other incentives and developing new housing stock rent stabilization, an independent of all types. board typically establishes annual caps “I think all of the elected officials in the city, with on rent hikes based on area property ‘Our next step is to go back to our local maybe one exception, are dedicated to improving values and other factors. If enacted, housing at the low end of the housing sector,” said the law would only apply to rental elected offi cials, sit down with them and Scott-Childress. “The question is, what are the best properties of more than six units built think about how to get this enacted.’ measures to achieve that.” before 1974. If rent stabilization is authorized in Kingston, it “That’s really the game-changer,” — Rashida Tyler, Kingston Tenants Union could impact over 1,000 units in the city. According to said Rashida Tyler, a board member of an estimate from the city assessor’s office, 1,768 units at Citizen Action and co-founder of the 80 rental properties in the city meet the standard laid out in the rent control law. But city officials noted that at least some of those units were already subsidized. If Harold (Hal) Garris Rowe the city opts into the EPTA, it will need to first carry out a vacancy survey to determine exactly how many Harold (Hal) Garris Rowe 83, died peacefully on May 23rd, and which units would be impacted. 2019, in Sarasota, Florida, three years after moving from The new laws have not been met with universal Woodstock, NY. He was preceded in death by his parents, acclaim. Opponents in the real estate industry say that Laura Cockrill Rowe and Harold Garriss Rowe, Sr. He is re- they fear the new rules will hurt small landlords and membered with love and affection by his wife, Nancy Rowe; discourage larger developers from building new hous- ing or investing in existing stock. Mike Kelly, director of children, Laurie Hallas, Christopher Rowe, Kathy Montag, government affairs for the New York State Association and Carrie Rowe; their spouses, Jarrett Hallas, Jan Rowe, Sean of Realtors, questioned how the rent stabilization law Montag; his sister, Janice Curtis; and grandchildren, Ryan would benefit Upstate, which, as a region, continues Montag, Matt Montag, Abby Montag, Courtney Lassiter, Cait- to lose both population and investment dollars. lin Rowe, and Casey Rowe; first wife, Cecilia Rowe; many in- “I understand the concerns [that drove the new laws, and Oliver, his faithful dog companion. law] to a certain extent,” said Kelly. “But this bill does nothing to contribute to the development of affordable Hal spent his professional life as an educator, college pro- housing. 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third-party candidate will be on the ballot in Kingston’s mayoral race, after city Democrats opted to pursue a challenge to his nominating petitions. A Ethan Scott Barnett collected over 750 signatures to place his self-created “Kingston People’s Party” on the November ballot. Earlier this month, former Kingston Democratic Committee chair Joe Donaldson filed a “general objection” to the petitions. The move gave the committee one week to examine the petitions and file specific objections to individual signatures. If enough signatures were ruled invalid by election officials, the petition could potentially have been rejected and Barnett left off the ballot.

Everyone is encouraged to get out and have their voices heard in the Primary Election on Tuesday, June 25th. There are local elections in Kingston, PHOTO PROVIDED Ethan Scott Barnett. Saugerties, and Woodstock. Local elections Barnett, a 26-year-old graduate student and civil rights historian, suggested that racism and a desire to shut outsiders out the political process were behind are often overlooked—but there is no level the committee’s move. Local party officials, however, described the petition challenge as a routine move to of government that will most directly impact ensure the integrity of the election process. Kingston Democrats said they filed the objection in an effort to every aspect of our daily lives more than buy time to go over the petitions to ensure that they had been properly collected and filed. A deadline to file specific objections to signatures passed last week local government. with no further action by the Democratic Committee. Barnett is challenging incumbent Democrat Steve Noble. He has positioned himself as a more progressive From our school systems, to policing, to and authentic voice for marginalized groups in the city, and a break from an entrenched system that he affordable housing, to public transit. This is has called corrupt and unresponsive to the needs of Kingston residents. Noble also faces a challenge from the right by where WE can make a tangible difference. Republican candidate Ellen DiFalco. DiFalco, who served as former Mayor Shayne Gallo’s confidential secretary, has been a persistent critic of the Noble Polls will be open from 12 pm to 9 pm administration’s ethics and fiscal policy. on Tuesday, June 25th. You can visit the Cake Box Ulster County Board of Elections’s website Bakery/Cafe at www.elections.ulstercountyny.gov to find Cakes for Grads! your polling place. Together, we can voice Other desserts Available our concerns and have a say in how our

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begin at 9:30, launched from the From 1 p.m. on July 4 until mid- the framework for the kinds of 30 percent for the fi fth, 20 per- BRIEFLY NOTED Wurts Street Bridge. The best night, there will be no parking on businesses who might receive cent for the sixth and 10 percent view, the city says, is between the both sides of Abeel Street from tax breaks and their possible for years seven through 10. The Fireworks to illuminate Route 9W Bridge and the Wurts Wurts Street to Broadway and destinations within the town. tax breaks are only eligible for Independence Day Street Bridge at lower Broadway the fi rst three parking spaces on Town offi cials said the goal would businesses with over $50,000 in The city Wednesday announced and T.R. Gallo Park. Broadway from the intersection be to encourage fi scal growth in a expenses who can show they will details of the annual Fourth of “We hope that everyone will of Abeel (approaching Garraghan municipality that has seen its tax provide local employment oppor- July celebration and fi reworks on come out and enjoy the food, mu- Drive) to accommodate the shut- base diminish in recent years. tunities and expand the tax base. Thursday, July 4, held at Kings- sic and the spectacular fi reworks tle bus maneuvering. There will “This is a board that will allow The proposal, which is likely to ton’s Downtown waterfront. Food from one of our beloved parks,” also be no parking on Thursday, the Assessor’s Offi ce to imple- receive a more thorough vetting vendors will start serving at 4 the mayor stated. July 4, from 7 a.m. until midnight ment the accelerated 485-B [tax] with a public hearing in July, p.m., with live music from 5-9 Traffi c and parking rules will in the three rows of parking exemptions that are outlined in would also recommend locations p.m. at T.R. Gallo Park. be strictly enforced. The City of spaces closest to Gallo Park in Section XII of the statute and will within the town where businesses The music lineup, presented Kingston and UCAT will be offer- the parking lot behind Mariner’s serve to hopefully attract addi- might be encouraged to relocate. by 92.9 WBPM, Rondout Sav- ing free shuttle services to the Harbor, at the intersection of tional industry and commercial The next meeting of the Ulster ings Bank, The Reis Group, and Waterfront. More details about West Strand and Dock Street. activities to our town,” Quigley Town Board is scheduled for WMC Health Alliance Hospital, shuttle pick-up and drop-off loca- Due to maintenance, the Wurts said during a Town Board meeting Thursday, June 20. includes: Ivory Rose (pop) at 5 tions will be announced closer to Street Bridge will be closed from on Thursday, June 6. CRISPIN KOTT p.m.; Geezüs Butlers (arena rock) the event, the city stated. Monday, July 1 to Thursday, July A municipal Industrial and at 6:30 p.m.; and Mister Kick The following streets will be 4. No pedestrians will be allowed Commercial Incentive Board Friendly to (dance rock, R&B and hits) at 8. closed to vehicular traffi c with on the Route 9W Bridge from can be formed under state law military spouses After the music performances, no parking from 1 p.m. on July 6-10:30 p.m. to consider property tax exemp- SUNY Ulster has been named Mayor Steve Noble will welcome 4 until midnight: Broadway from tions for up to a decade for new a “Military Spouse Friendly the crowd at 9:15 p.m., followed Abeel Street to East Strand (both Ulster board may create businesses and those who are School” for 2019-20. SUNY The by a color guard fl ag presenta- sides); all of West Strand; East new panel for tax breaks seeking to relocate into the college said Ulster is one of 11 tion and the national anthem. Strand from Broadway to the mu- The Ulster Town Board will community. Additionally, property schools in New York to be so The fi reworks display, presented nicipal parking lot entrance. The consider forming a fi ve-mem- assessments can be cut in half named, which, the college states, by Mainetti & Mainetti, PC and Wurts Street Bridge will be closed ber Industrial and Commercial for the fi rst three years, reduced “showcases schools that best O’Connor & Partners PLLC, will to traffi c. Incentive Board to help establish by 40 percent for the fourth year, support the unique challenges

CRIME Taking another look New DA’s Office panel will review questionable convictions BY JESSE J. SMITH

he Ulster County District Attorney’s Office has formed a Conviction Integrity Unit to review cases with an eye towards identifying instances where an innocent T person may have been convicted for a crime they didn’t commit. The unit will review cases referred to them by the legal community and the public and, if warranted, reinvestigate them. “The concerns here are obvious,” said District At- torney Holley Carnright. “And there have been so many advances in [investigative and forensic] science, it’s a good opportunity for us, in cases that warrant review, to have a chance to do so using those techniques.” The unit includes senior representatives from the DA’s office, defense attorneys Tom Melanson and Cappy Weiner, Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa, Kingston Police Chief Egidio Tinti and community activist Theresa Widmann. Referrals to the unit will DA Holley Carnright. be reviewed by a unit coordinator reporting directly to the DA. If the coordinator finds a legitimate issue of innocence, the case will go before the full com- Carnright said the unit would focus on cases where tigations or forensic testing absent some demonstrated mittee. The committee will then develop a detailed the convicted person claimed they were actually inno- flaw in the legal process leading to conviction. action plan to re-examine the case. The committee is cent of the crime, rather than “wrongfully convicted” “The appellate process deals with what [evidence] authorized to order a full reinvestigation of the case based on flawed legal procedure. In appellate courts, was there at the time and was that sufficient to support or forensic testing of evidence using techniques that defendants can claim wrongful conviction based on a conviction,” said Carnright. “Generally, it’s not the were not available at the time of the conviction. As an things like a judge giving improper instructions to defendant saying, ‘I’m really innocent.’ It’s ‘my lawyer additional protective measure, the full committee will the jury or prosecutors failing to turn over relevant screwed up, the judge screwed up, my sentence was meet twice a year to look at cases that were found to evidence without actually asserting innocence. Appeals unfair.’” be without merit by the unit coordinator. courts, however, do not routinely authorize new inves- Carnright said the unit’s formation was not spurred by any particular case or complaints about his office or local police agencies. Rather, he said, it was cre- ated in recognition of advances in forensic science and recognition that, despite safeguards, checks and Sore Feet? balances, mistakes happen. “This office has a duty to provide every safeguard to New assure that only the guilty suffer the consequences of a criminal conviction,” Carnright wrote in a statement announcing the unit’s formation. Patients The announcement comes as Carnright prepares to step down after 12 years as Ulster County DA. His Welcome chief assistant, Mike Kavanagh, is running to succeed him. Kavanagh faces a challenge from Kingston-based litigator Dave Clegg, who is running on a reform We accept most insurances including Fidelis Care! platform that stresses rehabilitation and “restorative justice” for non-violent offenders. Clegg said he wel- Dr. Jonathan Sumber comed the formation of the unit and would continue and possibly strengthen it if elected. 845•331•0601 | 190 Fair St., Kingston, NY “This is something I’ve been talking about all along,” said Clegg. “I guess they heard me.” KINGSTON TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 NEWS 5 and obligations faced by military register for more than one class at UCSBA’s annual dinner on Museum in the Rondout will host spouses.” or with more than one person. May 23 at the Best Western in its annual maritime festival on The college has been designat- For all event details and regis- Kingston. Saturday, June 22 from 10 a.m. ed “Military Friendly” since 2009 tration, visit the Kitchen Class- “In everything he does, he to 5 p.m., featuring a national and earned “Gold status” last es webpage at https://tinyurl. leaves his community more boat-building challenge and year. com/2019kitchenclasses. Con- beautiful than he found it,” Pad- antique and classic boat show. Interested veterans and their tact Janie Greenwald at jhg238@ alino said of Childs. “If you know The boat-building challenge is an families can visit www.sunyulster. cornell.edu or 845-340-3990 ext. James, then you know he is a event where teams of two com- edu/admissions/military/ for 326 with questions. tireless worker who also happens pete to build a boat from scratch more information. to have a great sense of humor. in four hours, and then compete Childs honored One night, as I was waiting for in a rowing race on the Rondout Jam session next week Kingston’s the Rev. James a Board of Education meeting with cash prizes in three catego- Strawberries are one of our Childs Sr., an 11-year trustee to begin, I put my head in my ries: speed, quality, and rowing fi rst local crops and the Cor- on the Kingston school board, hands to gather my thoughts and race. The classic boat show will nell Cooperative Extension of has received the Ulster Coun- get ready to power through this focus on preservation of histor- Ulster County is offering a class ty School Boards Association meeting after a long day. James ic, antique and classic boats. A ULSTER BOCES PHOTO on how to make and preserve (UCSBA) Distinguished Friend Trustee the Rev. James Childs. walked up to me and asked me parade of these classic vessels fresh strawberry jam. The boiling of Education Award. The annual what I was thinking about. I told begins at noon. bath canning method which will award honors 10 residents from advocate for diversity in shaping him I was pondering the meaning There will be face painting, a be taught can also be used to the county’s school districts and the district’s individual school of life. He replied, ‘Oh, I know scavenger hunt game and other preserve jellies, chutneys, and Ulster BOCES for their dedication environments. Prior to joining the that answer,’ and walked away! all-day activities. The Hudson pickles; students will bring home and commitment to students and Board of Education, he enjoyed As I shook my head and laughed River Fishermen’s Association a jar of jam for themselves. schools. a long career as a manager at I thought to myself, I think he will be offering fi shing lessons for The class takes place on June A member of the Kingston IBM and continues to serve as might actually know the answer kids while the Mid-Hudson Wood- 26 from 6-8 p.m. at the exten- City School District Board of pastor of Pointe of Praise Church to that question.” workers will construct miniature sion’s 232 Plaza Road in Kings- Education since 2008, Childs in Kingston. boats with kids. There will be live ton (Hannaford Plaza) facility. also serves on several volunteer Kingston City School District Maritime Fest music in T.R Gallo Park. The mu- Classes are $35 and a $5 committees and, Ulster BOCES Superintendent Paul Padalino this Saturday seum will also offer discounted discount is applied when you says, has been a steadfast presented Childs with the award The Hudson River Maritime admission.

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6 COMMUNITY THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES affiliated with the Trump administration that showed “how the census could be used to suppress black and Census and immigration brown people by adding the question of citizenship” — evidence that the Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in their decision, Drake noted. Meeting in Rosendale, featuring The timing of that decision is another concern: “You need millions of postcards for the 2020 Census, which Sheriff Figueroa, tackles two hot topics BY LYNN WOODS means they have to be printed starting next month … if the Supreme Court doesn’t issue a decision by the s part of its mission end of June, I don’t know what to engage with local will happen.” government for what While many undocumented it sees as a just and immigrants will likely be afraid to A transparent process that answer the citizenship question, truly represents the constituents, the whether you are a citizen or not local advocacy group Ulster People should not be a reason for con- for Justice & Democracy featured cern, given that “in theory, census two guests, Jen Drake of the Dys- data exists in a black box and is on Foundation and Ulster County not accessible to any part of the Sheriff Juan Figueroa, at its monthly government, outside the Census meeting on Monday, June 17 at the Bureau,” said Drake. Part of the Rosendale Community Center. On education process is letting people the agenda were two important is- know accessing their data from sues: the 2020 U.S. Census and the the census is against the law, she new immigration enforcement policy added. She said that Dyson will be implemented by Figueroa. making funds available “for local Drake described the importance trusted messengers to speak to of the census and the many questions people in their own communities and risks surrounding it. A key issue is in their own language.” the Trump administration’s intention Drake said the Census Bureau to add the question about whether has begun recruiting partners one is a U.S. citizen, which could lead and enumerators — the people to a significant undercount. “Large who knock on doors — of which immigrant communities could lose 300,000 will be hired. The online out on representation and funding,” process will begin in March and said Drake. Dozens of states, cities April and the results are supposed and municipalities have responded to be delivered to Congress by by suing the federal government. Dec. 31, 2020. “Once they have The case is currently before the U.S. a count, the government does a Supreme Court, which is expected to statistical analysis to see of they rule by the end of this month. did a good job by comparing the Drake said the Dutchess-based numbers to the records of births Dyson Foundation, which funds and deaths and information nonprofits in six Hudson Valley coun- from local health departments,” ties, is committed to “examining the Drake said. In the 2010 census, ramifications of an undercount, how the government estimated that we can support a complete count, and 1.5 million children were missed what funding is available to help.” The (“people think they’re too young census is written into the Constitu- and don’t include their children”) tion — specifically, the requirement but despite that miscount, 2010 that the U.S. government count was the most accurate census every person in the nation every 10 ever, she said. years — and was once described as Figueroa: Deputies won’t “the largest peacetime mobilization of Americans.” The results deter- PHYLLIS McCABE enforce immigration law mine two things: the distribution of Juan Figueroa. One of newly elected Sheriff $700 billion of federal funding and Juan Figueroa’s first priorities was the distribution of political power, i.e. the number of said. But “the Trump administration wanted to keep the issuing a general order for Immigration Enforcement seats each state gets in House of Representatives. The funding flat,” and although Congress approved more to his 300-person staff on February 27. upcoming census is particularly important for New money, there’s still a question whether it’s adequate. “I’ve instructed the personnel in my office not to York, which is at risk of losing one seat and could lose There’s another very significant issue: the 2020 inquire about the immigration status of any person two if our population is undercounted, noted Drake. Census will be the first that’s online, which means “the unless it’s necessary to investigate criminal activity,” Besides the citizenship question, there are other system needs to be incredibly robust from a security and Figueroa said. “Any interaction they have to document. serious concerns. Drake said because the previous systems standpoint,” Drake said. People will receive a We will not be performing any enforcement of immi- census director stepped away after the presidential postcard with a unique identifier that will direct them gration law. Service personnel may respond to a judicial election and wasn’t replaced for over a year, the Census to go online and complete the census; they can also warrant issued by a court or a judicial subpoena,” but Bureau was under-resourced right when it needed to call in. If they don’t do anything, they’ll get a second not a civil immigration warrant, which is issued by start making the push for 2020. The Trump admin- postcard as a reminder, and if they still don’t respond, ICE [U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] istration also attempted to limit the bureau’s funding. they’ll eventually receive a paper document. or CPB [Customs and Border Patrol]. “We shall not The 2010 census cost $13 billion and estimates were “People have a lot of concerns about this, including provide ICE or Customs and Border Patrol access to that the 2020 census would cost $20 billion, Drake data privacy,” said Drake. “Will people feel safe going resources if ICE is enforcing federal law.” online? We’ve seen that tech can be a weakness, and A month into his term, “I got an email form from Join us at Hasbrouck House for our FREE whether the investment by the government is suffi- ICE, which said they wanted to meet. I said, ‘Sure, but ‘Sunset Flix’ film series! The fun continues cient [to ensure the online form is effective] remains in Ulster County I believe in the due process of the throughout the Summer. Come early for to be seen.” law.’ I never got a response back,” Figueroa said with a themed food, drinks and surprises! Regarding the citizenship question, there are chuckle. Under the new policy, “when somebody gets Visit www.hasbrouckhouseny.com for details. questions about the way it was introduced, she added. stopped, we don’t ask their immigration status. The “Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross oversees the Cen- policy is about due process, the rights of persons who Saturday June 22nd Saturday August 10 sus Bureau, and he asked that the question be added. are arrested or detained. Everybody has the right to The Big Lebowski Dirty Dancing Typically, the way a question gets added happens years go before a judge and jury. I’m a big supporter of the 7:30 — 11:30pm, 7 — 11pm, in advance. Scientists and statisticians discuss and test Constitution, and I represent the people of this county. Movie @ 8:30pm Movie @ 8:15pm it. But this was done precipitously.” Ross’ motives have If you commit a felony, whether you’re undocumented been further called into question by the discovery of or otherwise, you go to court.” Saturday July 6 Sunday September 1 writings by a now-deceased Republican congressman Specifically, the four-page policy says: Wet Hot American Rocky Horror “Sheriff’s Office personnel shall not stop, question, Summer Picture Show interrogate, investigate, or arrest an individual based 7:30 — 11:30pm, 7 — 11pm, solely on the any of the following: actual or suspected Movie @ 8:30pm Movie @ 8:15pm Help keep local immigration or citizenship status; or a ‘civil immi- gration warrant,’ administrative warrant or an immi- journalism strong gration detainer in the individual’s name, including The business of media is changing, those identified in the National Crime Information but local, on-the-ground, fact-checked Center database.” journalism is needed now more than ever. Further, it states, “Sheriff’s Office Personnel shall hudsonvalleyone.com/support not inquire about the immigration status of an indi- Hasbrouck House vidual, including a crime victim, a witness or a person UP Ulster hv1 who calls or approaches the police seeking assistance, 3805 Main St, Stone Ridge | 845.687.0736 Publishing unless necessary to investigate criminal activity by KINGSTON TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 7 that individual” in which case the inquiry must be “Things have changed drastically since [the license, get insurance, drive their kids to school and documented, and “they shall not perform the functions Trump] administration took over,” Figueroa said. “A go to work,” he said. “It’s better for all of us.” of a federal immigration officer or lot of people in communities otherwise engage in the enforce- of color are scared,” leading Addressing the overdose crisis ment of federal immigration law.” ‘I’ve instructed the to “the old days of organized Figueroa said he’s applied for a grant, written with The policy also prevents per- crime, because people would the assistance of a grant writer at SUNY New Paltz’s sonnel from honoring “detainer personnel in my offi ce rather go to the godfather than Benjamin Center, that would pay for a trailer equipped requests from federal agents.” The law enforcement. We cannot go with a room and a bathroom designed to educate only instances in which Sheriff’s not to inquire about the back to that.” people about the signs of opioid addiction (such as Office Personnel “may respond Figueroa said he discussed syringes in empty toothpaste boxes, shoes missing affirmatively to an ICE or CBP immigration status of the policy with the sheriffs in laces and drugs hid in the empty battery compartment request for nonpublic information any person unless it’s Tompkins, in which sits the of an alarm clock). The trailer would be hauled to about an individual is if the request liberal enclave of Ithaca, and various events and locations, such as the county fair, is accompanied by a judicial sub- necessary to investigate Albany counties, which have and walk-through tours provided to the public. The poena or judicial warrant, which similar policies. “There are a grant would also pay for training police officers and is based on probable cause and is criminal activity. … We handful of us,” he said, not- crafting a plan to provide support to opioid addicts issued by a federal judge” — dis- ing that all the surrounding who are incarcerated, including enlisting mental health tinct from the civil immigration will not be performing counties’ sheriff offices “have a experts and a six-month follow-up after the person detainer described above. any enforcement of different philosophy.” is released from jail. Such a program is desperately The policy also applies to peo- Figueroa also supports the needed: Figueroa said that Ulster County has one of ple in the sheriff office’s custody immigration law.’ Green Light Law (officially the highest overdose rates in the state, with a total of and “prevents use of office facili- called the Driver’s Access and 166 overdoses and 56 deaths in 2018. ties to ICE or CBP officials for the — Sheriff Juan Figueroa Privacy Law), which passed the “We could also bring in the First Chance program, sole purpose of enforcing federal State Assembly (and on Tuesday, to get them employed,” he said. He explained that First immigration law.” Personnel “shall was passed by the State Senate; Chance provides employment opportunities to first not inquire about or request proof Governor Cuomo was expected offenders age 20 to 32. of immigration status or citizenship when providing to the sign the bill into law). The law restores the right “We need to come together as a county,” Figueroa services or benefits,” unless such services or benefits to obtain a driver’s license regardless of immigration concluded. “Our enemies are taking advantage of us, are contingent upon immigration or citizenship status, status, a right that existed prior to 2001. With the and democracy is compromised. We need to include all the policy states. passage of the new law, “safe individuals can get a citizens together. We are one nation and always will be.”

but it happened. basically Kingston 2.0 and I’m really proud to say I live Faces of Kingston here and can’t wait to see what the future has in store. MYE: What is a place no longer part of Kingston, Continued from Page 1 like a closed business you remember or a time period MYE: What is an important social issue for you cur- come and gone, or something you miss from the past? rently in this country or even on a local level? Shawna: Well, it wasn’t part of Kingston, but the Shawna: The most important social issue to me right memories would have to be coming to stay with my Catskill Animal Farm was a part of my childhood, now is affordable housing. Many of my friends are grandparents for the summer. Just imagine ten little and I know it was a staple in just about every kids live working two or three jobs just to make ends meet girls all playing Barbie dolls, clothing everywhere. I when we were young. There’s a picture of me sitting while trying to enjoy life and survive, and it shouldn’t also went to summer camp for the first time. One of on my mom’s lap — I think I was maybe two — and be like that. Rents are soaring and not just for the the best things about summer with the Grans was I’m feeding deer. young folks but also for the empty-nesters that want falling asleep to the sounds of the train driving by to sell their homes and downsize. It’s a constant battle, the bottom of Emerick Street, such a comfort. Still MYE: What is your favorite part of Kingston to explore but on the upside I have been reading about all the to this day when I hear a train at night it brings back when you have the time or have a night free to relax? grants that Kingston is getting that will allow more such nostalgia. Shawna: Hmmmm, I love all of Kingston. The Strand, affordable housing units to be built. It’s important so you can walk by the water and look at boats. Midtown that with all the great change it’s inclusive and not MYE: What can you tell us about what you do for a with all of the art galleries. But I’m definitely a bit of just one-sided. For a city to do well, all parties have living here currently and what do you love about it an Uptown girl. You can usually find me on a Saturday to be included. that is rewarding? morning walking through the farmers’ market and on Shawna: I moved back to Kingston from Brooklyn a weekend night at Crown or Stockade Tavern enjoying MYE: How do you manage to have better style than about a year ago and was blessed to have found a job a delish beverage. Since I work Monday through Friday the vast majority of other people who live here? pretty quick. I’ve been in health insurance for the last I try to stay low-key, and I’m actually in bed by ten Shawna: [laughs] Umm, well my style is my style. 14 years or so, and the first place I applied called me on a weeknight since I have to be up and out so early. I don’t follow trends because that’s just not me. I go and I was hired. I’ve been at Mid-Hudson Regional with what feels right and makes sense. I’m pretty Hospital for about a year and work with some really MYE: What do you love most about Kingston right tall and lean, so not everything I try on fits right. great ladies. We process insurance, set up authoriza- now? I do love fashion so one day I’m in a vintage dress tions for patients coming in for surgeries or therapy, Shawna: What I love most about this beautiful little at brunch in Saugerties, and the next minute I’m and we make sure they have active coverage so they town is that she is thriving, growing and evolving! wearing Old Navy leggings, a tank and flip-flops don’t have to worry and know that their care is paid The art galleries, the music, festivals, the restaurants, while grocery shopping. As of late, I’ve been trying for. I guess we are kind of authorization superheroes. the shops and of course the people. The revival has some new things. I actually bought a sun hat from For fun and to keep my zen I also assist with events at begun and is going strong. I’ve been here for a long Bop to Tottom that’s fantastic. Petalos Floral Design in Uptown Kingston. I met the time now and I’ve never seen Kingston like this. It’s owner Brian about a year ago at a farmers’ market fund- raising event. He said, “I own a flower shop,” and I said, “I love flowers and plants if you ever need any help at all.” Mark M. Vianello, July 28, 1965 - June 15, 2019 We got in contact with each other a few weeks later and it;s been flower heaven ever since. My dream job is actually working in a flower shop. It took 38 years, Mark Vianello spent his last morning doing what he loved, fishing and spending time with his son Mark and best friend Bob before his wonderfully kind heart gave out. Mark treasured every moment he had NEED GUTTERS? GOT LEAFGUARDS? with this children Mark, Stephanie and Gianna. WANT THE BEST? 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PHOTOS BY PHYLLIS McCABE Attendees were asked to touch the ground of the burial site and to think of the men and women who are buried there.

Sacred soil Continued from Page 1

Diamond recalled. The graveyard “showed up in the historic record until the 1970s, when there were still some gravestones,” he said, recounting how in 1996, the owner of the neighboring building had discovered a box of human bones while doing excavation work in his cellar. The clearest evidence that the site was a buri- al ground emerged last January, when Diamond and John Ray- burn, a profes- sor of geology ‘We need to watch at SUNY New Paltz, mapped over our ancestors the site using … this is about a war ground-pene- trating radar against bad history.’ and found dozens, if not — Odell Winfi eld, hundreds, of A.J. Williams-Myers anomalies in the soil whose African Roots Center long shape, ar- rangement in Jamaican native Garfi eld Dyer sings a song he composed as Odell Winfi eld listens. rows, and alignment (all point east, conforming to religious tradition) resemble coffins or buried bodies. Years after a failed attempt to acquire the prop- the appropriate way to physically commemorate the contacted the research departments of local universi- erty back in 2011, late last year members of the KLT cemetery; and clearing and doing ground penetrating ties and that in the future, “maybe we’ll excavate some learned the site was in foreclosure and negotiated radar on a portion of the site that extends around remains to test DNA, working with the community to with the bank to buy time to raise the funds. A goal the back of the neighboring property. (If there are make sure we do it sensitively.” The KLT also plans to of $200,000, which would cover not only the pursue landmark designation. Farr said purchase price but also the renovation work details were also being worked out about to stabilize the house, was set. Partnering ‘We must all pull together to make this a lasting whether the KLT and Harambee would with Harambee, the KLT put in $40,000 jointly own the property or it would and received a matching grant from Scenic legacy for our children and grandchildren.’ eventually be turned over to Harambee. Hudson. More than 250 donors, including the — the Rev. G. Modele Clarke, Harambee Fourteen sunflower seedlings, from Old Dutch Church (which donated $10,000) heritage seeds harvested by the Mohawk and other nonprofits, as well as numerous Nation at the Akwesasne Reserve on the local businesses, rose to the challenge, raising border of New York and Canada, were another $80,000. Harambee and the KLT planted. the Rev. G. Modele Clarke, hope to raise the remaining $60,000 by the end of no graves, Wilson said a community garden might after explaining the origin and meaning of the term the year. (To contribute, visit KingstonLandTrust. be planted on the site, with educational programs on “Harambee,” encouraged the community to join in org; 845-877-5263; [email protected]). farming for youth.) Ongoing research to determine the the preservation effort. “We must all pull together number of people buried on the site, the time period, to make this a lasting legacy for our children and Trying to solve mysteries and their identities is also of a priority. grandchildren,” he said. “Hopefully as they see us At the ceremony, Farr outlined next steps: turning “The church records might identify someone by pulling together, it will take shape in their minds the house into an interpretative center; putting togeth- ‘Sam boy of somebody,’” said Winfield. “We need to do and become a greater thing.” er programming, which would include deciding on this research.” Farr said the KLT and Harambee have KINGSTON TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 COUNTY NOTES 9 to 2 p.m. to present various medicines, implements, Greetings from the cardinal and techniques used by physicians during the Revo- lutionary War, as well as discuss the role that doctors played and their social standing during this period. Terpening is a professor emeritus of biology. Admission is free and all are welcome. For infor- mation about this and other outreach programs of the Ulster County clerk’s office, call clerk Nina Postupack at 340-3040. Saugerties feral cat roundup The village of Saugerties will be trapping, neu- tering and releasing feral cats earlier this year than usual, trustee Donald Hackett said. “Usually they begin in August, but I guess we’ve been having a couple issues going on, so I would like to start a little bit earlier,” he said. “I think we have $500 in our budget for that.” Trapper Kim Kelly works with the Woodstock neutering program, Hackett said. The cats are neu- tered and released near where they were picked up. The cat’s ear is nicked, so if it is picked up again, the “trap, neuter, return” program will know the animal is already neutered. Last year, the program identified four cats. At $25 per cat caught, neutered and released, the program had adequate funds, Hackett said. The year before, the village spent the full $500, catching 20 cats or possibly more, which would have busted the budget, he said. PHYLLIS McCABE So far, Hackett has received two calls from residents ARCHBISHOP CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN is welcomed by Jose Vieira, the human resources manager concerning feral cats. Trustee Jeannine Mayer said she at ArchCare, and the Rev. Rick de la Pena, Vassar Brothers Medical Center’s chaplain and a past clergy of St. had also received a couple. Joseph’s Church in Kingston. The cardinal was in town Monday to bless and cut the ribbon for ArchCare, the Kelly notifies the homeowners in an area where archdiocese’s expansion of Catholic Home Care Services to the former Always There Home Care facility. she will be trapping before she begins, Hackett said. Cat owners will then know they should not well. “I suspect we’ll use close to that,” McKenna said. let their house cats out. Should a pet be trapped, Mystery in patricide-suicide Besides drilling the well, a casing, screen and pump the owner should notify the animal shelter to have It’s been a little over two weeks since a Saugerties must be installed. The new well will not be affected it returned. man killed his father in the parking lot of a New Paltz by any other projects of the improvements planned or diner and shot himself following a police pursuit. underway at nearby Rick Volz Field, he said. Hear-no-evil free parking Investigators are still trying to piece together why it happened. A doctor in the house The New Paltz village board continued a public According to New Paltz Police lieutenant Robert hearing last week for a proposed law to keep cars from Lucchesi, police have not yet “ascertained a specific being parked too close to driveways. Mayor Tim Rogers motive” as to why Jeremy Kaartine, 22, decided to talked about making an official — but unpublicized gun down his father, Andrew Kaartine, 58, of Orange — list of free parking days. County. “We do know that the son contacted the father The hearing is for a law that would ban parking to arrange this meeting to try and reconcile, as they’d a car within five feet of a driveway ramp. Being too been estranged,” said Lucchesi. Lucchesi said police boxed in to safely back out of one’s driveway is a recovered two guns from the car of Jeremy Kaartine, frequent topic of complaint calls at the village hall, both of which were legally registered to him. according to Rogers. This law is intended to give a little Jeremy Kaartine was single with no children, and more room, providing the sight lines for a safe exit. has a step-brother. Lucchesi said that the suspect did “I’m a little concerned about this one,” said Eve have “ongoing mental and emotional issues,” but that Walter, chair of the planning board. “It feels a little police still have not landed on what specifically sparked [like] overreach to me.” She believes this law might the shooting. Lucchesi said police were waiting for the result in “exponentially reducing parking spots.” results of a toxicology report. Noting that these were the first negative comments ERIN QUINN received, the mayor was in favor of closing the hearing after this third session and voting to pass the law. That Bearsville test well okayed was accomplished by unanimous vote. The mayor’s idea is essentially to give parking Woodstock’s town board has authorized supervi- enforcement officers the day off from writing tickets sor Bill McKenna to sign an agreement with Layne without making a big fuss publicly. The list of 22 Christensen Company of Schoharie to drill a 20-foot dates includes existing village holidays, but also Eid test well on town property in Bearsville and conduct a al-Adha, Yom Kippur, Diwali and Easter. Rogers 72-hour pump test. The cost is projected to be $52,925. proposes enshrining this list of free days in law, but If the test is successful, the test well will become the then never speaking of it again. Members of a given town’s third operating municipal well. religious community will likely know, but others may Recently, a pump at one of the two operating wells well needlessly put coins in the meters. failed, and the well casing partially filled in when the (continued on page 16) pump was removed, McKenna said. Crews were able Don Terpening treating a terrifi ed patient. to replace the pump, but capacity was reduced from 265 gallons per minute to 150 gallons per minute. This Saturday, June 22, Revolutionary War medi- RALPH MOSELEY The sole other company that responded to requests cal re-enactor Don Terpening will be at the Matthewis 50 Years of Landscapes & People for quotes indicated it would not be able to do the Persen House at 74 John Street in uptown Kingston Byrdcliffe •Woodstock • Kingston yg work. The town has earmarked $120,000 for a new (the corner of John and Crown streets) from 10 a.m.

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10 ENVIRONMENT THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES A hard look? Town of Kingston hearing grapples with manufacturing plant application surrounded by Wild Forest BY PAUL SMART he crowd inside the Town of Kingston offices’ meeting room Mon- day night, where the town’s planning Tboard was continuing its fourth public hearing on an application to build a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing plant on a prop- erty surrounded by trails and the state’s Bluestone Wild Forest, was quick to notice how its ideological lines mirrored those splitting the nation. DION OGUST The SRO crowd that spread into hallways and had The scene at this week’s Kingston town planning board meeting. cars parked up and down Sawkill Road — which many said was the largest ever seen in the small rural town spoke about ways the manufacturing site would serve environmental impacts that have been raised on the — was largely drawn by a call-to-action by the region’s to baffle noise during the five plus years it will take to record before you.” leading environmental organizations. Speaker after construct the two 120,000-square-foot manufacturing Summing up, Privitera noted that the Kingston speaker contended that the planning process, which buildings, as well as during operations after. They planning board had made its SEQRA declaration “too declared the application of 850 Route 28 LLC didn’t said the number of vehicles entering and leaving the early,” and would be facing legal action if they didn’t need full environmental review because its potential property would be 100 per day during the maximum remedy their mistake. impacts were minimal, was faulty and legally liable. construction period. And yes, it was added, those The region’s environment was its key economic attri- trucks would be able to make a left turn onto Route A sense of the comments bute, many said. 28, crossing the center line. Others took up the issues Open Space Institute, A large contingent of native- and longtime town of Kingston Planning Board Chair John Konior re- and then the Woodstock Land Conservancy, laid out. Kingston residents touted the 60 jobs the applicants’ minded the audience that his board had determined, There was talk about the rising number of new resi- lead, Thomas Auringer, had promised. Such promise months earlier, that Auringer’s plans would not need a dents moving into the area because of the local scenic would reverse the trend that had kids moving out of full environmental impact statement since they’d been splendor, the trails offered at a place like Bluestone town for work, they said. It was just what the area determined to have non-significant impacts. He added Wild Forest, which was noted as “one of the only places needed. that if anyone wanted to see that documentation, or in the region where people can hike that doesn’t have Jobs versus the environment was a bad equation, Auringer’s application — which he admitted had been a 1200 foot rise.” Several people spoke about climate replied those asking for a better review process. Lax changing quite a bit in recent weeks — they could change and the toxicity of cement manufacturing environmental safety at the expense of the local econo- submit FOIL (Freedom of Information law) requests industries. my was devastating the world that many in rural areas with the town clerk, in whose office they could then “How is that important regarding this application,” had grown up expecting to be part of. peruse the documents or copy them for a fee. Konior asked as the room erupted into shouts from In a handout made available to hearing partici- the two sides. pants, Auringer and 850 Route 28 LLC noted that Neg dec challenged “You keep moving the goal posts on us,” said one they had applied “for approval to manufacture on a Tom Gravel of the Open Space Institute, a New local man who refused to give his name to the crowd. site previously left scarred and abandoned by prior York City based environmental organization that helps “We shouldn’t allow non-residents and non-taxpayers mining operations in the 1950s-1970s. The develop- purchase endangered lands for preservation by the to have a say in any of this.” ment will operate only within an existing industrial state and other entities, stated that OSI “doesn’t believe Hillary Smith, a planning consultant based in zone, and through the process of site development, the applicant has submitted the proper materials. We Shandaken, spoke about how the lands Auringer new property enhancements will be made that will renew our request that the applicant do a full EIS.” bought had been restricted to non-industrial uses as benefit neighboring lands by protecting them for the As several audience members tried to shout him recently as 2015, but changed to accommodate the foreseeable future.” down with loud comments about taxes and jobs, Gravel present application in 2018. She called that “spot The handout added that Auringer, described in its noted potential impacts on water, wildlife habitat, zoning,” noting that such things are illegal. three pages as an Ulster County native who was forced and noise levels before introducing an environmental Back and forth the discussion ran, with those for to leave the area for work, bought his property in June specialist David Tompkins from CHA Consultants, Auringer’s proposal talking up the jobs and tax income 2018 while the Open Space Institute only purchased and attorney John Privitera. while raising issues with where speakers lived, and its adjacent lands this past February. Planning board “Remarkably, the Planning Board’s March 18, how long they’d been in the area. Those against the review of the manufacturing plans started in July 2018. 2019 Negative Declaration does not even mention the proposal spoke about the need to protect refuges for The location of 850 Route 28 LLC on Route 28 with Bluestone Wild Forest, or the surrounding recreation- coming generations, and how such discussion shouldn’t “centrality in NYS” made it “ideal” for its proposed al uses or the Onteora Lake Addition in its analysis be about money. manufacturing use. of environmental impacts of the proposed project,” Konior noted that he was making sure all speakers In their presentation to the planning board and Privitera noted in a letter accompanying his public gave their addresses to the board so he and other plan- assembled public, engineers for Auringer’s company statements, which were cut off by Konior after three ning board members could get a sense of the comments. minutes. “Since the Negative Declaration was issued, One man brought up Auringer’s history of com- the Planning Board has received detailed comments plaints from New York City unions and OSHA, which from OSI, including the May 16, 2019 letter from OSI was raised in recent battles before industrial develop- Executive Director, Kim Elliman, accompanied by the ment agencies in Orange and Ulster counties regarding report of Dr. Eric Kiviat, a highly regarded professor his crane company. Konior asked what relevancy such of ecology; detailed comments from the Woodstock things had, to which several people yelled out how it Land Conservancy; focused comments by Mr. Robert mattered what sort of jobs were being offered. “Fake Leibowitz of the Ulster County Planning Board, with news,” came a cry from one of the project’s supporters. specific recommendations; and, a number of factual findings and environmental impact observations by Comments until July 1, next CHA, delivered today to the Board, pointing out many meeting is July 15 environmental matters that have been overlooked. Of At meeting’s end, Konior said the planning board course, the Negative Declaration states, at the outset, was closing comments. Did that mean the public hear- that the finding is based on the Board’s “consideration ing was over, initiating a timeline for its review of the of available information ... In light of all of the addi- 850 Route 28 LLC application? The chair corrected tional, new information the Board now has, it has a himself, saying the board would take written comments legal obligation under New York State Law to rescind only until July 1 and then decide what would happen the Negative Declaration and to engage in a hard next. Did that mean there would be a public discussion look and meaningful analysis of all of the potential or would the board meet in private? Konior and the board went into a huddle after which it was announced that written comments would be taken until July 1 and then discussed at their next formal meeting on July 15. The public hearing would be recessed until then. 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Brooklyn Italians on Wednesday, June 26 certainly Stockade FC battles Hartford to a draw as big match wouldn’t hurt. Brooklyn, who as of press time have played just eight of their 14 regular season games, are against Brooklyn at Dietz awaits BY CRISPIN KOTT technically in the driver’s seat, but they have a busy few weeks ahead. ingston Stockade FC extended cations, it may have been one quiet whistle too many. Both Kingston and Brooklyn have to play away their unbeaten streak to nine games on “The referee was definitely slow to blow his whistle against the division leading New York Cosmos, a Saturday, June 15, picking up a crucial one way, a little bit quicker the other, and allowed deep-pocketed club who’ve gone a perfect 10-0 and Kpoint in a 1-1 draw at Hartford City FC. play to go on, unfortunately,” said Zobre. “I feel like have already punched their playoff ticket. Though With the tie, Kingston also earned the we deserved a penalty with the amount of contact on Hartford is still mathematically in the mix, the second first-ever supporter driven Wooden Shoe for winning me and a lack of contact on the ball. But you get some divisional postseason spot will likely be earned by the season series, with the trophy coming home with calls, and some you don’t.” Kingston or Brooklyn. Lis-Simmons and the entire the Dutch Guard Supporter’s Group. Kingston Coach Jamal Lis-Simmons credited his Stockade FC organization are fighting tooth and nail The game was played under windy conditions at team’s effort regardless of the refereeing. to make the playoffs. Al-Marzook Field at the University of Hartford in “There were a couple of tough ones tonight, but “We want to continue to take care of business,” Connecticut — a blessing to fans on an otherwise warm you’ve got to live with it,” said Lis-Simmons. “I’d say Lis-Simmons said. “If we can keep our mentality where day, but something of a curse for players on the pitch. probably both sides could say the same thing. A couple it’s been I think we’ll be in good shape.” In the first half, the wind was blowing into Kingston’s of calls didn’t go our way, and I’m sure they could say side, with goalkeeper Greg Monroe struggling to kick the same thing. But through it all our guys continued Please make note of our the ball near midfield as it stopped dead on its way up. to fight, and we had opportunities up until the last few This didn’t work in Hartford’s favor either as a pair minutes of the game. I’m proud of our effort.” of their first half corner kicks simply flew harmlessly Stockade’s players and coaches were pleased the EARLY out of bounds. unbeaten streak hit nine with the draw, even though Kingston came out fighting in the first half, though they’d have preferred to walk away with the win. their offense was fueled by grit more than the balletic “Scoring first you’d always like to get all three DEADLINE poetry seen in much of their 3-0 home win over Rhode points,” said Zobre. “But road points are pretty good, Island on Sunday, June 9. Whatever propelled Stockade so it’s not a terrible result. But to keep up with a couple into the wind in the first half, it worked, as Alejandro of other teams we want every point.” for our Riquelme netted a pass from Afonso Pinheiro in the Lis-Simmons agreed. 19th minute of play. “Whenever you can get points on the road, you’ve Stockade continued to push in the first half, but got to take them, but our mentality coming in was July 4th issue when Pinheiro left at 38 minutes with a calf injury, the that we were going to get three points,” Lis-Simmons wind went out of the team’s offensive sails. Despite an said. “Not quite as consistent as we wanted, but I was The advertising deadline for invigorated effort by Hartford, Kingston’s defense was pleased with our energy and effort throughout. Our subs our issue publishing strong enough to take the slim lead into intermission. came in and made a difference, and gave us a couple That lead held for nearly midway through the second of different opportunities late. Just a second off here half before Hartford’s Miguel Caeneiro exploded down and there, and I thought we could have had the winner Wednesday, July 3rd the left side for a goal and the Stockade defense was a couple of times. Hats off to [Hartford]. They were unable to get back in time. definitely a much better side than when we saw them will be Kingston looked sharper down the stretch than they at home, and it’s always difficult to play on the road.” had throughout the game, though they were unable With the draw, Kingston improved to 6-1-3 on the Monday, July 1st to untie the 1-1 knot. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, as season, good for 21 points overall and third place in Brady Van Epps sent a rocket off his foot that hit the the North Atlantic Conference of the National Premier Please call your sales crossbar, and Scott Zobre was officially blocked inside Soccer League (NPSL). Stockade has four games re- five yards. The Stockade fans, who comprised roughly maining in the regular season, beginning with a visit representative at half of the 100 fans at the game, let the refereeing on Saturday, June 22 from Boston City FC. With the (845) 334-8200 for crew know their displeasure at the no call on Zobre’s top two teams from each division making the playoffs, tantalizing run, which ended with what appeared to Kingston can only do so much to help their own cause, more information. be a lot of contact. In a key game with playoff impli- though a win at Dietz Stadium over the second-place 12 THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES

LLC. Filed 4/26/19. Office: NAME: Amanda’s Macaron LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION of Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Ulster Co. SSNY designated as Shoppe, LLC. Articles of Or- Laywoman LLC. Articles of Dated: 5/14/19 agent for process & shall mail ganization were filed with the LEGAL NOTICE Co. SSNY designated as agent Organization filed with Sec- YW to: Cindy Tejeda, 16 Roslyn St, Secretary of State of New York NOTICE OF FORMATION for process & shall mail to: retary of State of NY (SSNY) Ellenville Ny, NY 12428. Reg- (SSNY) on 02/28/2019 Office OF RENEVATIONS, LLC, Shusma B Nirala, 26 Tano on February 5, 2019. Office LEGAL NOTICE istered Agent: Cindy Tejeda, location: Ulster County. SSNY Notice of Formation of RE- Drive, Highland, NY 12528. location: Ulster County. SSNY NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 16 Roslyn St, Ellenville, NY has been designated as agent NEVATIONS, LLC, Art. of Org. Purpose: General. has been designated as agent LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 12438. Purpose: General. of the LLC upon whom process filed w/Sec. of State of NY of LLC upon whom process The Articles of Organization against it may be served. SSNY (SSNY) on 3/29/19. Office lo- LEGAL NOTICE against it may be served. The of GGEHS, LLC were filed with LEGAL NOTICE shall mail a copy of process to: cation: Ulster Co., NY.; SSNY Mo Studio, LLC, App of Post Office address to which Secretary of State of New York NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC Amanda’s Macaron Shoppe, designated as agent of LLC Auth. filed with Sec. of State of the SSNY shall mail a copy (SSNY) on January 9, 2009. AUCTION Supreme Court of LLC, 117 Vineyard Ave #3 upon whom process against NY (SSNY) 3/20/2019. Using of any process against Lay- Office location: Ulster County, New York, ULSTER Coun- Highland, NY 12528.Purpose: it may be served. SSNY shall the fictitious name Mo Studio woman LLC served upon him/ New York. The SSNY is desig- ty. LAELIA, LLC, Plaintiff, Any lawful act or activities. Lat- mail copy of process to Rene- NY, LLC. Cty: Ulster. SSNY her is: 73 Ledgesite Road, nated as agent of the LLC upon -against- LEAH MCWILLIAMS est date upon which LLC is to vations LLC, 88 Maiden Lane, desig. as agent upon whom Saugerties, NY 12477. The whom process against it may A/K/A LEAH M. MCWILLIAMS; dissolve: No specific date. Kingston, NY 12401. Purpose: process against may be served principal business address is: be served. SSNY shall mail a RANDOLPH MCWILLIAMS; Any lawful acts and activities. & shall mail process to 97 82 Prince Street, Kingston, NY copy of the process to 145 S FIRST HORIZON HOME LOAN LEGAL NOTICE Ridgewood Ave., Kerhonkson, 12401. There is no specific William Street, Newburgh, NY CORPORATION, Index No. SUPREME COURT OF THE LEGAL NOTICE NY 12446.General Purpose. date set for dissolution. Pur- 12550. Purpose is: all lawful 1716/2017. Pursuant to a STATE OF NEW YORK - COUN- NOTICE OF FORMATION pose: to engage in any lawful acts or activities. Judgment of Foreclosure and TY OF ULSTER OF LIMITED LIABILITY COM- LEGAL NOTICE activity or act. Sale duly dated, April 25, BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING PANY Nicholas Cohn Art Pro- LEGAL NOTICE 2019 and entered with the Ul- LLC, NAME: Wesley Voner River jects LLC, Arts of Org. filed LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE ster County Clerk on May 3, V. Road LLC. Articles of Organi- with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME SUPREME COURT COUNTY 2019, John G. Rusk, Esq., the HARATIS BANKS, ET AL. zation filed with the Secretary 5/14/2019. Cty: Ulster. SSNY COURT ULSTER COUNTY OF ULSTER, ULSTER SAV- Appointed Referee, will sell the NOTICE OF SALE of State’s Office on January desig. as agent upon whom U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS INGS BANK, et al, Plaintiff, vs. premises known as 30 Church NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 31, 2019. Office location: Ul- process against may be TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER BURTON GULNICK, JR., et al, Road, Saugerties, New York pursuant to a Final Judgment ster County. The Secretary of served & shall mail process to PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff Defendant(s). 12477 A/K/A 30 Church Road of Foreclosure dated March State has been designated as Borstein Turkel, P.C., 420 Lex- against Pursuant to a Judgment Saugerties, New York 12477 20, 2019, and entered in the agent of the Limited Liability ington Ave., Ste. 2920, NY, NY NEAL SERRINGER A/K/A of Foreclosure and Sale duly at public auction at the Ulster Office of the Clerk of the Coun- Company upon whom process 10170.General Purpose. NEAL W. SERRINGER, et al De- filed on March 25, 2019, I, the County Courthouse, 285 Wall ty of Ulster, wherein BAYVIEW against it may be served. The fendants undersigned Referee will sell Street, Kingston, New York LOAN SERVICING LLC is the Secretary of State shall mail a LEGAL NOTICE Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein at public auction at the Ulster 12401, on July 16, 2019 at Plaintiff and HARATIS BANKS, copy of the process to the Lim- Notice of Formation of a Lim- Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old County Courthouse, 285 Wall 10:30 A.M. All that certain plot, ET AL. are the Defendants. I, ited Liability Company at 10 St. ited Liability Company(LLC): Country Road, Suite C103, Street, Kingston, NY on July piece or parcel of land, situate, the undersigned Referee will James Street, Kingston, New Name: TELC, LLC. Articles Westbury, NY 11590 Attor- 10, 2019 at 10:00 am, premis- lying and being in the Town of sell at public auction at the UL- York 12401. PURPOSE: for any of Organization were filed with ney(s) for Plaintiff (s). es known as 216 Village Court, Saugerties, County of Ulster STER COUNTY COURTHOUSE, lawful purpose. the secretary of state of New Pursuant to a Judgment of Kingston, NY f/k/a 2 Village and State of New York known 285 WALL STREET, KINGS- York on: 5/8/2019. Office Foreclosure and Sale entered Court, Kingston, NY 12401. as Section: 8.4; Block: 3; Lot: TON, NY 12401, on July 24, LEGAL NOTICE Location: 14 Hussey Hill Rd., April 15, 2019, I will sell at All that tract or parcel of land, 31 will be sold subject to the 2019 at 9:30 AM, premises Notice of Formation of Lim- Ulster Park, NY 12487 public auction to the highest situate in the City of Kingston, provisions of filed Judgment, known as 1490 STATE ROUTE ited Liability Company (LLC): SSNY shall mail a copy of bidder at Ulster County Court- County of Ulster, State of New Index No. 1716/2017. The ap- 28, WEST HURLEY, NY 12491- Black Sea Gold Advisors process to: TELC, LLC. 14 house, 285 Wall St. Kingston York, known and designated as proximate amount of judgment 5512: Section 38.10, Block 7, LLC Hussey Hill Rd., Ulster Park, NY 12401 on July 2, 2019 at Section: 48.78; Block: 1; and is $224,337.76 plus interest Lot 19: Articles of Organization NY 12487 10:30 AM. Premises known Lot: 1.2. Premises will be sold and costs. FRIEDMAN VAR- ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT were filed with the Secretary Purpose: Real Estate as 37 Furnace Street, King- subject to provisions of filed TOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITU- of State of New York (SSNY) on Brokerage ston, NY 12401. Sec 56.108 Judgment Index # 1287/17. Suite 501, New York, New York ATE IN THE TOWN OF HURLEY, May 13, 2019. Office location: Block 4 Lot 6. All that parcel Rebecca Millouras-Lettre, 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. COUNTY OF ULSTER AND Ulster County. SSNY has been LEGAL NOTICE of land situate in the City of Esq., Referee STATE OF NEW YORK designated as agent of the LLC BENTLEY LAND MAN- Kingston, County of Ulster and We are a debt collector at- LEGAL NOTICE Premises will be sold sub- upon whom process against it AGEMENT LLC Articles of the State of New York. Approx- tempting to collect a debt. Any Notice of Formation of Lim- ject to provisions of filed Judg- may be served. SSNY shall mail Org. filed NY Sec. of State imate Amount of Judgment is information obtained will be ited Liability Company (LLC): ment Index # 16-1050. John a copy of process to Black Sea (SSNY) 5/14/2019. Office in $77,645.66 plus interest and used for that purpose. Peter Mostachetti, LLC J. Fallon, Esq. - Referee. RAS Gold Advisors LLC. c/o Svetlin Greene Co. SSNY desig. agent costs. Premises will be sold Stagg, Terenzi, Confusione Articles of Organization Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Krastev, 61 Barberry Rd. King- of LLC whom process may be subject to provisions of filed & Wabnik, LLP, 401 Franklin were filed with the Secretary Concourse, Suite 310, West- ston, NY 12401. Purpose: Any served. SSNY shall mail pro- Judgment Index No 2914/15. Avenue, Suite 300, Garden of State of New York (SSNY) on bury, New York 11590, Attor- lawful acts or activities. Latest cess to PO Box 123, Maplec- Rebecca Millouras-Lettre, City, NY 11530, Attorneys for 06/11/2019. Office location: neys for Plaintiff. date upon which LLC is to dis- rest, NY 12454. Purpose: Any Esq., Referee VERJN110 Plaintiff. Ulster County. SSNY has been solve: No specific date. lawful purpose. designated as agent of the LLC LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE upon whom process against Brown Pink LLC has filed LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE SMOKE’N MO’S LLC. Ar- Notice of Formation of a it may be served. SSNY shall articles of organization with the 1931 Rockaway Pkwy SUPREME COURT OF THE ticles of Org. filed NY Sec. of Limited Liability Company mail a copy of process to: Pe- NY Secretary of State on June LLC, Arts of Org. filed with STATE OF NEW YORK - COUN- State (SSNY) 5/28/2019. Of- (LLC): ter Mostachetti, LLC. P.O. Box 7, 2019. The office is in Ulster Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) TY OF ULSTER fice in Ulster Co. SSNY desig. NAME: Zamo PR & Com- 3882 Kingston, NY 12401. County. The NY Secretary of 5/15/2019. Cty: Greene. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL agent of LLC whom process munications LLC Purpose: Any lawful acts or ac- State is designated as agent SSNY desig. as agent upon TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE may be served. SSNY shall Articles of Organization tivities. Latest date upon which upon whom process may be whom process against may be FOR INDYMAC INDA MORT- mail process to 105 Canal St., were filed with the Secretary of LLC is to dissolve: No specific served. The address to which served & shall mail process to GAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-AR7 Ellenville, NY 12428. Purpose: State of New York (SSNY) on date. the Secretary of State shall for- 138 Vienna Woods Rd., Purl- MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH Any lawful purpose. 06/11/2019. Office location: ward copies of any process is: ing, NY 12470.General Pur- CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007- Ulster County. SSNY LEGAL NOTICE 84 Ten Broeck Ave., Kingston, pose. AR7, LEGAL NOTICE has been designated as Ruzzo Sisters LLC, Arts NY 12401. The purpose of the V. 11 Glasco TPK, LLC, Arts agent of the LLC upon whom of Org. filed with Sec. of State LLC is any lawful purpose. LEGAL NOTICE BETTYANN CICALE A/K/A of Org. filed with Sec. of State process against it may be of NY (SSNY) 4/8/2019. Cty: Filed by: RYAN, ROACH & 9528 Ave L LLC, Arts of BETTY ANN CICALE; ET AL. of NY (SSNY) 5/23/2019. Cty: served. SSNY shall mail a Ulster. SSNY desig. as agent RYAN LLP Org. filed with Sec. of State of NOTICE OF SALE Ulster. SSNY desig. as agent copy of process to: Zamo PR upon whom process against NY (SSNY) 5/15/2019. Cty: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN upon whom process against & Communications LLC, may be served & shall mail LEGAL NOTICE Greene. SSNY desig. as agent pursuant to a Final Judgment of may be served & shall mail 230 Kings Mall Court #149, process to 74 Green St., Notice of Formation of upon whom process against Foreclosure dated September process to Marine Dipaola, PO Kingston, NY 12401. Purpose: Kingston, NY 12401. General CTFO LLC may be served & shall mail 12, 2017, and entered in the Box 176, Glasco, NY 12435. Any lawful act or activities. Lat- Purpose. Arts. of Org. filed with process to 138 Vienna Woods Office of the Clerk of the County General Purpose. est date upon which LLC is to Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) Rd., Purling, NY 12470.Gener- of Ulster, wherein DEUTSCHE dissolve: No specific date. LEGAL NOTICE on 06/12/19. Office location: al Purpose. BANK NATIONAL TRUST COM- LEGAL NOTICE THE REAL ARTICLE LLC Ulster County. Princ. office of PANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDY- Index # 3037/2015 NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. LLC: 294 Acorn Hill Rd., Olive- LEGAL NOTICE MAC INDA MORTGAGE LOAN OF SALE Notice is hereby given that of State (SSNY) 6/6/2019. Of- bridge, NY 12461. SSNY des- ABC Plumbing & Heating TRUST 2007-AR7 MORTGAGE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY an order entered by the Su- fice in Ulster Co. SSNY desig. ignated as agent of LLC upon LLC. Filed 2/28/19. Office: PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES OF ULSTER preme Court, Ulster County, agent of LLC whom process whom process against it may Ulster Co. SSNY designated as SERIES 2007-AR7 is the Plain- 21ST MORTGAGE CORPO- on the 28th day of May, 2019, may be served. SSNY shall be served. SSNY shall mail pro- agent for process & shall mail tiff and BETTYANN CICALE RATION, bearing Index Number 19- mail process to PO Box 304, cess to the LLC at the addr. of to: Frank Wood, Po Box 912, A/K/A BETTY ANN CICALE; ET Plaintiff, 1327, a copy of which may Ruby, NY 12475. Purpose: its princ. office. Purpose: Any Saugerties, NY 12477. Pur- AL. are the Defendants. I, the Against be examined at the office of Any lawful purpose. Principal lawful activity. pose: General. undersigned Referee will sell at MARIA T LENT A/K/A MARIA the clerk, located at 244 Fair business location: 14 Pearl St., public auction at the ULSTER LENT, JODI L LENT, SR. A/K/A Street, 2nd Floor, Kingston, Kingston, NY 12401. LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 285 JODI LENT SR, ET AL., New York grants me the right DOYLE’S EQUESTRIAN Notice of Formation of Lim- WALL STREET, KINGSTON, Defendant(s) to assume the name of Chris- LEGAL NOTICE CENTRE NEW PALTZ LLC. ited Liability Company (LLC): NY 12401, on July 2, 2019 Pursuant to a Judgment topher Nathan Zelonis. The WNDRMADE, LLC. Filed Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY Name: Hudson Valley 3D Print- at 10:00 AM, premises known of Foreclosure and Sale, duly city and state of my present 5/17/19. Office: Ulster Co. on 05/10/19. Office: Ulster ing Limited Liability Company, as 13 LAUREL PARK RD, PINE granted 5/7/2019, I, the un- address are Pine Bush, NY; the SSNY designated as agent County. SSNY designated as Articles of Organization filed BUSH, NY 12566: Section dersigned Referee, will sell month and year of my birth are for process & shall mail to: agent of the LLC upon whom with the Secretary of State of 99.1, Block 1, Lot 9: at public auction, in the Main October, 2000; the place of Stephen M Biebel, 17 Rocky process against it may be New York (SSNY) on 4/16/19. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, Lobby of Ulster County Court- my birth is Phoenixville, Penn- Mountain Rd, Kerhonkson, NY served. SSNY shall mail copy Office location Ulster County. PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND house, 285 Wall Street, Kings- sylvania; my present name is 12446. Purpose: General. of process to the LLC,737 2nd SSNY has been designated as SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN ton, NY 12401 on 7/8/2019 Kristi Nicole Zelonis. Avenue, New York, NY 10016. agent of the LLC upon whom THE TOWN OF SHAWANGUNK, at 1:00 pm, premises known LEGAL NOTICE Purpose: Any lawful purpose. process against it may be COUNTY OF ULSTER AND as 130 Rose Street, Kingston, LEGAL NOTICE 210 PINE LANE LLC Articles served. SSNY shall mail a copy STATE OF NEW YORK NY 12401 and described as 491 Main Street LLC, Arts of Org. filed NY Sec. of State LEGAL NOTICE of process to: 138 New Salem Premises will be sold sub- follows: of Org. filed with Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/16/2019. Office in DOYLE’S FARM ON 87 Rd., Kingston, N.Y. 12401. ject to provisions of filed Judg- ALL that certain plot, piece of NY (SSNY) 5/9/2019. Cty: Greene Co. SSNY desig. agent LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Purpose: any lawful purpose. ment Index # 4324/2009. or parcel of land, with the Greene. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC whom process may be SSNY on 05/10/19. Latest date upon which LLC is Rebecca Millouras-Lettre, Esq. buildings and improvements upon whom process against served. SSNY shall mail pro- Office: Ulster County. SSNY to dissolve: no specific date. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC thereon erected, situate, ly- may be served & shall mail cess to 143 Kenilworth Rd., designated as agent of the LLC #1799243 900 Merchants Concourse, ing and being in the Town of process to Gregory S. Smith, Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Pur- upon whom process against Suite 310, Westbury, New York Rosendale, County of Ulster 18 Marina Drive, Catskill, NY pose: Any lawful purpose. it may be served. SSNY shall LEGAL NOTICE 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. and State of New York and des- 12414.General Purpose. mail copy of process to the Make Over Planet LLC. ignated on the tax maps of the LEGAL NOTICE LLC, 737 2nd Avenue, New Filed 1/16/18. Office: Ulster LEGAL NOTICE Ulster County Treasurer as LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Section 62.20 Block 2 Lot Notice of Formation of a an order entered by the Su- lawful purpose. 19 Limited Liability Company preme Court, Ulster County, on The approximate amount (LLC): NAME: A&S Property the 28 day of May, 2019, bear- LEGAL NOTICE of the current Judgment lien Solutions LLC ing Index Number 19-1425, a Notice of Formation of a is $225,130.04 plus interest Articles of Organization copy of which may be exam- Limited Liability Company and costs. The premises will were filed with the Secretary ined at the office of the Clerk, (LLC): Help keep local be sold subject to provisions of State of New York (SSNY) on located at 244 Fair Street NAME: M1 Enterprise LLC of the aforesaid Judgment of 5/20/2019. Office location: Kingston, N.Y., grants me the Articles of Organization Foreclosure and Sale; Index # Ulster County. SSNY has been right to assume the name of were filed with the Secretary journalism strong 3037/2015. designated as agent of the LLC Myles Noah Alfieri-Viger. The of State of New York (SSNY) If the sale is set aside for upon whom process against city and state of my present on 06/12/2019 Office loca- any reason, the Purchaser at it may be served. SSNY shall address are 92 Stein Rd. Pine tion: Ulster County. SSNY has The business of media is changing, the sale shall be entitled only mail a copy of process to: A&S Bush, N.Y.; the month and year been designated as agent of to a return of the deposit paid. Property Solutions LLC, 113 of my birth are April 4, 2015; the LLC upon whom process but local, on-the-ground, fact-checked The Purchaser shall have no Esopus Ave, Ulster Park, NY the place of my birth is Wallkill, against it may be served. SSNY further recourse against the 12487. Purpose: Any lawful N.Y.; my present name is Myles shall mail a copy of process to: journalism is needed now more than ever. Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or act or activities. Latest date Noah Viger.. M1 Enterprise LLC, 360 New hudsonvalleyone.com/support the Mortgagee’s attorney. upon which LLC is to dissolve: Salem Road, Kingston, NY Jon A. Simonson, Esq., Ref- No specific date. LEGAL NOTICE 12401 Purpose: Any lawful act eree. Notice of Formation of a or activities. Latest date upon Ulster Leopold & Associates, LEGAL NOTICE Limited Liability Company which LLC is to dissolve: No UP Publishing hv1 PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Greenside Landscaping (LLC): specific date. KINGSTON TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 13 KINGSTON AFTER DARK Morgan Y. Evans FREE WILL

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am thinking a lot about life choices. theory-esque words years ago about a theater shooting solitarily in Wales’ Lake District near Cumbria, which I had some very vivid dreams Sunday night that blamed Obama and said it was a “gun-grabbing” gave way to Reward, out now on Mexican Summer. where I saw people I hadn’t in quite some time, false flag, but Mustaine is a a human being and (see That label also supports sexist Ariel Pink who can kiss Ias well as — in one particularly vivid scene above) people can embody many things in a lifetime. my ass for a number of reasons, but I certainly have — did sign language with a Native American It is the day after Father’s Day and my own dad bat- nothing against Cate. tribe who came out of the forest in Shokan onto the tled cancer for over a decade. I wouldn’t wish that on Until next week, may the dusty farts or outmoded property where I grew up. It made me think of how anyone, let alone someone who wrote an album that ideas you have been breathing in or wading through history is such a march of world-changing decisions changed my life forever like Countdown to Extinction. be aired out for better, more inspiring flatulence and that add up to one huge quilt, good and bad and in It would certainly be petty and not being a bigger fresher takes. May we all communicate at our best, and between all woven together. Currently person to not wish Dave the best after may we all find the love that lines even hard moments I am a bit astounded at what hubris such a scary diagnosis. I hope he is able so we can reset and find the best solutions. it takes for O.J. Simpson to think he SO WHO DO YOU to get ahead of this. should make a Twitter this past week WANT TO BE? I guess what I wanted to say this (what a shit show), but I digress. week, as we cross paths with people who Watching The Sopranos first season the other night are similar or different to us, as long as they are not Effective June 1, 2019, there is a moment where Tony’s downcast, worried his actively bigoted against us (like someone I overheard son is gonna turn out like him, since Tony ended up a at a bar the other night saying really transphobic, mobster like his own father. I could on a surface level idiotic things that completely misunderstood gender due to increased costs, relate to that scene; I have struggled with depression dysphoria and who I wanted to slap the crap out of but and drinking through my life, like my own dad, but restrained myself), we have a choice to try and grow, every legal notice printed overall I hope that like my dad, I’ve done much more allow room to learn and to also stand up for ourselves. good than bad in the world. Anyway, Tony Soprano So who do you want to be? in Ulster Publishing’s says to Dr. Melfi, “How come I’m not making freakin’ pots in Peru?” — implying that one’s destiny is already ate Le Bon is a Welsh-born musician, newspapers Almanac set in stone. I could never fully accept that since I also Can acclaimed performer who is capable of know we do have choice, free will and even moments of plumbing deep regions of the soul for unforget- redemption if we try, pray and/or put in the hard work. table moments of relatable-yet-otherworldly catharsis. Weekly, Kingston Times, Gloria Vanderbilt, who died at age 95 Monday, was The “Home to You” singer will be touching down on given a very moving tribute this week on CNN by her the stages of BSP for my most anticipated show of the New Paltz Times, Saugerties son, Anderson Cooper. I highly suggest you look it month on Tuesday, June 25 with Moon Diagnosis in up online if you missed it. One part that jumped out tow. To say that this is an exceptional chance to see a Times and Woodstock Times to me was Vanderbilt’s lifelong belief that the “next brilliant performer is an understatement. Once again great love always around the corner.’ Wow, nice to see we are spoiled by BSP’s excellent booking bringing someone who had such a rollercoaster life — including top notch current talent to the Hudson Valley and will have a $25 affidavit being one of the last of the storied Vandy clan to live altering the cultural landscape for the better. This in their Hyde Park shed — could have that optimism year in particular has had some very inspired shows. fee in addition to the through nine-plus decades of life. We can be many Cate’s voice is unforgettable — fairy-like soul danc- things in a lifetime — at odds, friends, happy or sad. ing to the Velvet Underground. It often hovers plaintive government mandated rate Heck, even Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are now beef- yet hopeful over uncompromisingly mischievous indie free, as anyone who has seen the “You Need to Calm with many interesting textures or instruments you for publication itself. Down” video knows. might not expect. The 18-plus show is $15 and gets Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has been diagnosed with rolling about 7:30 p.m. throat cancer this week. I don’t usually write about or “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit Ulster support Megadeth anymore since awhile ago as a fan crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing UP Publishing I felt very let down by some of Mustaine’s conspiracy into the night,” she says, recounting the year living 14 THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES OPINIONfeedback

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I think the time has come to have a peaceful and open conversation about the meaning of a public art policy for Kingston. There are many in this city who understand the need for a policy and here’s why. It’s not about the past, it’s about the future. How do we want our city to be going forward? Many think we need a clear and fair policy that protects the rights of artists, will determine who takes care of our public art and will give everyone from building owner to artist to the neighborhood guidelines that are clear and well understood. It’s called an open and inclusive conversation. It is not about oppressing public art but protecting it, encouraging and supporting it, and making a level playing field for all. Kingston is full of wonderful creative people. Many of these creatives are involved with making art both privately and publicly. We also have a city that actively supports our creative community and looks for ways to integrate that art into the City of Kingston. There is rarely a creative project the city is not interested in and actively supporting. I’ve seen this through PHYLLIS MCCABE first hand experience as a community volunteer and as an owner of a business that helps artists express themselves every day. Freedom celebrated I started as an artist, have a degree in fine art, and Children at play in the playground Saturday at Kingston’s seventh annual Juneteenth Celebration, held last have pieces in several national museum collections. I Saturday at Hasbrouck Park. Rita Worthington, a Kingston alderwoman and a minister and trustee of the New understand the artist’s point of view. I support freedom Progressive Baptist Church, gave the keynote address. of expression, the importance of art to our well-being, and how art helps us build bridges and ultimately communicates our humanness to ourselves and others. that create public art, and how will the city create an A narrative of fear and disgust is being spread in We are a city where we want that public expression to open dialogue with the neighborhood where public Kingston regarding the idea of the city’s involvement continue to grow and thrive. But how do we do this art is to be placed? in any kind of public art policy. It is a destructive fairly and clearly going forward? We are striving as a There are artists calling City Hall every month narrative and has been carefully crafted to bring out city to be just, a place where all voices can be heard trying to figure out how to create work in a public anger and even hate to make the City of Kingston the and woven into the conversation. way in Kingston and there are no written guidelines. enemy. This city is not the enemy. Just look at all the As Kingston looks at its future and what we want Nothing exists. Isn’t it fair and reasonable that the things Kingston has supported including the use of that to be, I think it is fair for the City of Kingston City of Kingston, with its burgeoning arts scene, now City Hall for art shows and art happenings. The recent to be part of the conversation of what happens with wants to create a policy for the future that is clear and sound expo at City Hall honoring the work of world-re- and to art in a public way. How will public art be fair to all who want to create public art in Kingston? I nowned and avant-garde musician Pauline Oliveros taken care of, who will honor the rights of artists think the city deserves to be included in the dialogue and the hosting of rap poet and ceramic artist Roberto about what takes place here. This is about public, Lugo all within recent months are perfect examples of private, and NFPs working together. I think we are our city’s support of artistic freedom. Does this seem KINGSTON TIMES the city that can do that. like a city that wants to repress free expression and The time has come to create clarity with specific does not support the arts? These accusations put out EDITORIAL guidelines which may include constructive conversa- from members of Kingston are not representative of EDITOR Dan Barton tions with the artist and the city about materials and the majority, especially given how most of us live and

ALMANAC WEEKLY EDITOR Julie O’Connor placement, and then opening it up to the community behave in this city. It does not reflect the cooperation

PRODUCTION MANAGER Joe P. Morgan where art will be placed. The rights of artists need to and enthusiasm those of us who work with the city feel.

CALENDAR MANAGER Donna Keefe be spelled out clearly and the designation of who is We are a city of collaborators. In my opinion we have

STAFF REPORTER Jesse J. Smith responsible for the upkeep of the city’s public artworks a city that deeply embraces the arts, and only wants

WRITERS Christina Coulter, needs clarification. We want our public art protected clear guidelines for public art going forward. This is Carrie Jones Ross, and preserved. so all will be treated fairly with equal guidelines and Crispin Kott, Lynn Woods Is this such a strange request from a city of 24,000 the rights of artists will be honored and protected PHOTOGRAPHY Phyllis McCabe, Dion Ogust, people? Nearly every city in America has a public art going forward. This is not about the past, it is about Lauren Thomas, Dan Barton policy, including some of the most progressive and the future. COLUMNIST Morgan Y. Evans open cities in America. We can make a policy that We are here now. What was before, has passed. In ULSTER PUBLISHING speaks to all of us and encourages us to work together this case it is going to be necessary to do some deep to keep public art thriving in Kingston. listening to the other voices in Kingston who are PUBLISHER: Geddy Sveikauskas gathering together not to oppress or curtail artistic ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Genia Wickwire expression but to give some simple structure to how ADVERTISING PROJECT MANAGER: Sue Rogers public art is going to be done going forward. Actually, DISPLAY ADS: Lynn Coraza, Pam Courselle, Elizabeth K. W. Jackson, Angela Lattrell it is quite a simple and practical thing to do which will Ralph Longendyke, Linda Saccoman allow our public art and Kingston, as the City of the

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It’s the economy Continued from Page 1 chain hotels in the Kingston-Saugerties corridor, where all the guest rooms are almost identical. Blaichman said that the Kinsley room rates start at $250 per night. Later in the summer Fare & Main, a take-out and provisions market, and a wood-fired pizza restaurant called Lola’s, is expected to open opposite the county office building on Fair and Main streets. While patiently fixing the distressed, cavernous, more-than-century-old Fuller building for the past two years, Dutton and his staff have been seeking tenants, mostly using word of mouth. Working without real-estate professional help, they have succeeded in signing up a mix of Kingston businesses, individual entrepreneurs and people relocating from other places around the country. All the space is now spoken for. Dutton estimates that it’ll take another half-year for the first- and third- floor spaces to be fitted out and all the tenant opera- tions to be in place. At the Monday press conference, he said the increase in the number of creative people in midtown Kingston in the past three years “has just astounded me.” The 49-seat restaurant on the ground floor of the Hotel Kinsley was very busy last Saturday night, though the place wasn’t formally open yet. Newly PHYLLIS McCABE Stew Meyers, co-founder and chief technical offi cer for Exago, holds a rendering that shows how the Exago hired waitstaff hurried around the informal-looking space in the Fuller Shirt Factory building will look. He’s fl anked by architect and building owner Scott Dutton but carefully designed space. and Mayor Steve Noble. The restaurant entrance is on Wall Street, while the hotel guests can enter through a door around the most part, they’ve been successful in anticipating mar- Last Wednesday the Ulster County IDA restruc- corner on John Street. There are four guest rooms on ket trends, and have accumulated a substantial portfo- tured its tax-exempt bonding for Inness NY, LLC the second floor, including a luxurious multi-room lio. Blaichman, who has owned a house in Woodstock by $2.9 million because the Somer team had been suite, and six on the third floor. The rooms have been for close to 45 years, bought the Forst meat-packing working on the golf course prior to receiving final IDA appointed with the help of an interior designer, and plant on Abeel Street about 20 years ago. He tried to approval. Somer, who owns and lives in a stone house each is quite distinct. Blaichman said that several build the Noah Hotel on it, but the financing dried up. in Marbletown, accepted the need for an amended Ulster County people had recently expressed interest But he never lost sight of Kingston’s potential. application with relatively good grace. to him in renting rooms for staycations. In the past few years Blaichman has spent about Zak Pelaccio, who several years ago decamped from $10 million buying and fixing nine Stockade properties, New York City to Hudson, had similar experiences. or both Dutton and Blaichman, what has some for rent as office space and others for conversion Pelaccio, a well-known chef who’s a consultant on been accomplished to date is part of a broader into a decentralized boutique hotel with about 40 the menu at the Kinsley restaurant, told a Vice food Fscheme. Nearly a quarter of the Fuller building units of accommodations in all. The Kinsley is the first reporter a year ago that he needed a change of pace is common space. The renters will get to know each completed part of his plan. What percentage occupancy from a city life where he had found himself “stuck other. Dutton’s ambition was as much to create a work did he anticipate from the boutique hotel? “As much in that hamster wheel of working, staying out late, community as to rent space. As New York City-born as we can get,” he responded quickly. He added that having to get up early, working.” His family started colossus WeWork expresses it, co-working businesses he expected at least 65 or 70 percent. weekending in the Hudson Valley in 2005, and kept are enticed “to join our brilliant community of creators.” extending his weekends. “And then when we came up Some co-working spaces have thrived, while others utton and Blaichman both have consid- here, everything just clicked,” he told the reporter. The seem never to have gotten off the ground. Dutton’s erable experience in the management of de- region, the Old Chatham resident continued, was “full feeling seems to be that his well-designed space and Dvelopment. Dutton’s is more local. He came to of people who left the city for a more rural life, to take supportive landlord services can make a big difference Kingston about 20 years ago. He knows who’s reliable the pay cut and want to slow down.” at the Fuller building. in the Hudson Valley construction industry and who Taavo Somer and his wife Courtney have two chil- Exago co-founder and Chief Technical Officer isn’t. He’s worked with the same crew of people on dren whose middle names are Lake and Skye. Stew Meyers said working with Dutton had been different projects. A design and aromatherapy business called Lake “more a coming together than a negotiation.” Touch- Blaichman is more familiar with the complex and & Skye has signed up for 900 square feet in the Fuller ing an optimistic note, he said he “looked forward highly specialized agglomerations of New York City. building. Courtney Somer’s a designer, an entrepre- to running out of space and having Scott provide Many of the ex-Manhattanites in the food, design and neur, a student of alternative healing and wellness, a us another building.” building worlds he now works with were burnt out writer, and a seller of aromatherapy products. Blaichman and his longtime real-estate partners with city life. They wanted out. It’s one of the charms The search for greener pastures has been a part have substantial operations in New York City. For the of the Hudson Valley to be the place to which many of of New York City life for at least two centuries. It them look to move. Some of them are Dutton’s tenants has taken on different forms depending on social, and will be guests at Blaichman’s hotel. economic and technological linkages. In the 1960s about it, but I am saying that we have to start paying Taavo Somer, a partner in the restaurant at the Hotel and 1970s, many of these refugees were willing to be attention to the most obvious major threat right now. Kinsley and a well-known restaurant designer in New local shopkeepers or long-distance commuters. Their Since we have what seems to be our most important York City, was one of those who found the constant contemporary counterparts see their knowledge and election in my lifetime coming up very soon, I believe driving back and forth from Ulster County and New contacts providing them the hope of a more moneyed that the subject of climate change needs to be in the York City grueling. In partnership with Blaichman and future. They’re more likely to expect to make a living front of our upcoming Democratic candidates’ (and his colleagues, he’s now developing an upscale resort through the Internet or to retain consulting gigs in voters’) thoughts. I’m sure you know that the Republi- at the site of the former Rondout Country Club and the Big Apple. can leaders of the White House and the Senate do not golf course in Accord. Some of them will succeed. Others won’t. want to address it because their only focus is on money for their own families and most of their investments are probably in the oil industry. In the movie Ice on Fire, which right now is only available on HBO, it tells the “rich” where they should Who’s there? invest their money and it’s certainly not in the oil and gas industry, nor is it even on solar. lmost a quarter of the 68,944 square Eleven Six Storage (storage space), 700 square feet They have new inventions that are now in process feet of total space in the Fuller building at Courtney Somer, Lake & Sky, 900 square feet and you’ll have to see the movie to find out what that 45 Pine Grove Avenue in Midtown Kingston Kat Hammill, River Mint Finery, 521 square feet is. Furthermore, unless the billionaires fund it soon, A is devoted to common areas. Here’s a list Nora Machione-Weiss, Pilates of Kingston, 933 it may have to wait a generation to show its financial of the tenants and the amount of space they occupy. square feet benefits, but wouldn’t it be better than knowing that William van Roden, 726 square feet your grandchildren have a future that includes healthy First floor: Jason O’Malley of The Rural Modernist shares air and water? River Radiology, 25,327 square feet space with van Roden but has a separate entrance Let’s pay attention to the urgent changes in our Bethany Obrecht, I Found My Animal, 3,585 Sari Botton, Kingston Writers’ Workshop, 269 country and our planet so that we’re not like the people square feet square feet. of Puerto Rico, who were taken by surprise. Climate Rebecca Miller Ffrench, Upstate Table, 1,531 change is here and we have to chose the ways that we square feet Third floor: go about dealing with it. The only option that should Andrew Moore, photographer, 2,500 square feet Exago, software analytics and development, 8,801 be off the table is ignoring it. Eleven Six Storage (studio space), 900 square feet. sqare feet Jill Paperno Sean Dimin, Sea to Table, 690 square feet Glenford Second floor: Amara Projansky, Luminary Publishing, 1,942 Francis P. Flynn, CPA, 2,631 square feet square feet. 16 THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019 KINGSTON TIMES

PHYLLIS McCABE Pretty sweet for five decades VOLUNTEERS BETTY STANZIONE AND HERB WILCOX prepare a serving of strawberry shortcake at last weekend’s 50th annual Strawberry Festival at the Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum in Ulster Park.

ENVIRONMENT COUNTY GOVERNMENT already foreclosed on the property and planned to issue a request for proposals in the next week seeking a vendor to develop the solar array. Once built, the vendor would operate and maintain the facility while Sun into volts county would purchase energy at a reduced rate in exchange for leasing the land. The site will also host a new solar-powered radio tower for the county’s 911 BY JESSE J. SMITH County to put up solar array at Saugerties tire dump system. Ryan said the project would not require a major capital investment on the part of county taxpayers. ewly installed County Executive and reporters. “On the other side we have this huge Amanda Lavalle, coordinator of the county De- Pat Ryan said this week that a proposed opportunity in that crisis … to lean into our green and partment of the Environment, said the plan, which solar array in Saugerties and an executive environmental consciousness and be at epicenter of has been in development for two years, was modeled Norder he issued calling on county gov- this emerging green economy that’s happening and on one used to create a solar array at a former landfill ernment to be 100 percent dependent gaining momentum.” in the Town of Ulster. on renewable energy by 2030 are concrete steps in In his first executive order, Ryan set of goal of “It’s a major step forward to look at these underuti- his campaign trail pledge for a “Green New Deal” for making county government 100 percent reliant on lized brownfield sites in the community and target Ulster County. renewable energy by 2030. In a more concrete step, them for renewable energy generation,” said Lavalle. Ryan, who took office on June 7 made the an- Ryan announced the rollout of a plan to double that The proposed “Green New Deal” was a centerpiece nouncement at a ceremony Tuesday at the County figure — from the 20 percent it is now to 40 percent of Ryan’s election campaign. In addition to shifting Office Building in Uptown Kingston.’ — with the construction of a solar array at a former county government to renewable energy, the proposal “We are at this decisive moment in our country tire dump off of Route 32 in the Quarryville section calls for banning new fossil fuel energy projects and and of course in our county. On the one side we face of Saugerties. workforce development programs to link county res- a clearly existential climate crisis,” said Ryan, address- The dump has been abandoned for a decade and idents with jobs in the green energy economy. ing representatives of local environmental groups designated as a brownfield. Ryan said the county had COUNTY NOTES of old-fashioned marijuana plant matter). The Brooklyn-based developers of the project “Marijuana is just a violation. Once you concentrate publicly reacted to a Town of Hurley public hear- it, the effects of the THC are much more potent, [so] ing on a proposed nine-month moratorium on Vape pens it falls under the category of a controlled substance,” multi-family dwellings in the town by issuing a might incur charges explained Saugerties police chief Joe Sinagra of the statement through a PR firm last week. The release distinction. “I think, prior to the vape pen, [arrests stated that the town’s proposed action seemed to be Pot might be decriminalized in New York, but area involving] the concentrated THC [weren’t] that directed at their development, and that they were marijuana smokers should be aware that possession prominent. Now, because vape pens are so accessible, now considering bringing a tax-exempt yeshiva, an of weed vaporizer pens filled with concentrated THC we see a high number of high-school kids getting these Orthodox Jewish college, seminary, elementary or could result in a misdemeanor charge. vape pens. We’re starting to have more encounters with secondary school to the site. Zachary T. Ham of Saugerties, 24, was charged with individuals in possession of it. There’s a concerning The statement from ASK Agency said specifically seventh-degree possession of a controlled substance increase in the number of individuals that are using that developer Kerry Danenberg and his wife Sarah when he was found in possession of multiple pen vapes throughout New York State.” Russell are “deeply considering an offer from a yeshiva cartridges in the process of a routine traffic stop on After processing at police headquarters, Ham was group for utilizing the existing school building” after June 8; the same charge can be attained by possessing released to a third party. He will appear in town court learning about the “moratorium reportedly intended a hypodermic needle loaded with heroin. later this month to answer the charges. to slow the development.” According to police, officers established that Ham Hurley supervisor John Perry first proposed a was “operating under the influence of drugs” on Glasco School might become yeshiva moratorium on multifamily housing development last Turnpike. He was also charged with driving with ability month, citing not only the West Hurley School project, impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, and the violation A new wrinkle has emerged in the evolving review but developments at the former St. Joseph’s Mission of unlawful possession of marijuana (the charge that of a proposal to turn the closed West Hurley School Church on Zandhoek Road, and what he called “the would be elicited by the discovery of under 25 grams into market-rate rental apartments. former Tappen House” off Spillway Road.