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Register-Star WEEKEND The nation’s second-oldest newspaper • Serving Columbia and Dutchess counties since 1785 Copyright 2020, Columbia-Greene Media All Rights Reserved Price $2.50 Volume 236, No. 118 Saturday-Sunday, June 13-14, 2020 n FORECASTWEATHER FOR HUDSON/CA TODAY TONIGHT SUN Police retirement benefits at issue By Nora Mishanec 9.3.1 of the current Hudson Columbia-Greene Media police contract, which states File photo Nice with HUDSON — The city and that officers are permitted to In this file photo, Mostly sunny Partly cloudy partial its police force are in talks to retire on the basis of their last Hudson police and cooler and chilly sunshine settle a dispute over how of- 12 months salary, and should are on State HIGH LOW 71 ficers’ retirement benefits are be honored by the city, ac- Street in the calculated. cording the union’s Associate city following 70 44 48 The Hudson Police Depart- General Counsel Andre Dal- a shooting. ment’s union, the bec in an email. The Hudson Common Council Complete weather, A2 State Law Enforcement Of- But that line is directly fol- ficers Union, AFSCME, AFL- and the union lowed by Article 9.3.2, which representing the CIO, Council 82, Local 3979, states that officers can elect to Hudson Police is seeking to allow officers to retire after 20 years of service Department are retire with benefits based on according to the provisions in talks to settle their single-highest earning laid out in Section 384-d of the a dispute over year, known as a one-year fi- state’s Retirement and Social police retirement nal average salary, or FAS. Security Law for the Police benefits. The use of a one-year FAS is INSIDE TODAY! permitted according to Article See ISSUE A8

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Motorcycle driver killed A dump truck and a Cuomo signs police motorcycle collide in Claverack on Friday, killing the driver, police say accountability legislation PAGE A3 Courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office n NATION Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs 10 police reform bills into law as part of New York’s progressive Say Their Name agenda following a pandemic briefing on Friday afternoon in his Manhattan office. Louisville bans By Kate Lisa Friday after signing 10 police mandating all of the state’s must develop a plan by April 1, “The protest taking place ‘no-knock’ rule Columbia-Greene Media reform bills into law, including roughly 500 law enforcement 2021 — the state’s next budget throughout the nation and in After weeks of protests in NEW YORK — Every police publicizing law enforcement agencies, including the New deadline - to be eligible for state communities across New York Louisville, the city council agency across New York must personnel records. York Police Department, to funding. The municipality that in response to the of votes to ban police use of reinvent its community polic- The governor signed the ex- publicly meet with people in oversees the law enforcement George Floyd illustrate the loss “no-knock” warrants ing strategies or forego state ecutive order, named the New their communities and reinvent agency must certify and adopt of community confidence in funding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo York State Police Reform and policing strategies. and enforce the plan as a local PAGE A2 declared in an executive order Reinvention Collaborative, Each police force statewide law. See CUOMO A8 n INDEX Region A3 Opinion A4 Two seek opportunity to challenge Delgado State/Nation A5 Obituaries A5 Sports B1 By Raymond Pignone Hawat- a degree in communications. Hawat- system and job training that Classified B4 Columbia-Greene Media meh is a She began her career as a pro- meh is connects veterans with em- Comics/Advice B7-B8 Registered Republicans in business duction assistant with Fox TV pro-life and ployers. the 19th Congressional Dis- owner, fash- and worked in marketing at strongly op- Hawatmeh disagrees with On the web trict will begin casting ballots ion designer the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mu- poses gun the lengthy lockdowns and www.HudsonValley360.com in early voting Saturday in a and philan- seum in Hyde Park. control. On business closings in New York primary between Ola Hawat- thropist. She The U.S. economy can with- national se- state and the nation due to the Twitter meh and Kyle Van De Water has been rec- stand the COVID-19 pandem- curity, she is COVID-19 pandemic. Follow: for the opportunity to chal- ognized as Ola ic and return to full strength, Kyle committed “We should have had only @HudsonRegisterstar lenge Democratic incumbent one of the ar- Hawatmeh Hawatmeh said. She supports Van De Water to stop the the first month in quarantine,” Antonio Delgado of Rhine- ea’s top local the tax and regulatory reform spread of she said. “Shutting down the Facebook beck. female business owners. She passed by the Republican nuclear weapons in Iran and country wasn’t necessary. We The official primary day is www.facebook.com/ founded her first company, majority in the Senate. She North Korea, defending U.S. should have gotten the econo- June 23. HudsonRegisterstar/ Mom Me Makeover, in 2004, pledged to oppose all attempts interests in Asia, combating my started sooner and opened OLA HAWATMEH and established her fashion to raise taxes. Russian aggression and stop- up the country.” Hawatmeh, 42, is the moth- design company Ola Style in She supports President ping election interference by She criticized Gov. Andrew er of three sons. She lives in 2018. Donald Trump’s plan to build all foreign nations. Cuomo’s handling of the COV- Pleasant Valley and is the Hawatmeh is a graduate a border wall to control im- She supports ongoing ef- ID outbreak in nursing homes. daughter of Christian immi- of Marist College in Pough- migration and is calling for an forts to reform the Veterans grants from Jordan. keepsie, where she received end to sanctuary cities. Administration health care See CHALLENGE A8

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