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The Gardiner Gazette, Winter 2015 The GardinerA call to community Gazette Winter 2015 - Issue #25 Free! Please take one A Glimmer Of Progress On House Calls As Property Tax Reform The Future, Not Also in this issue ... by Gioia Shebar The Past Wallkill Riverkeeper sweep, pg. 2 Most of us don’t hate paying for and The Omnibus Consortium by Barbara Sides the services we use, but most are working to fully assess the Much to the chagrin of her pro- News from Town Hall, pg. 3 of us do hate property tax as plan. Initial response to the fessors, Dr. Maggie Carpenter the means of funding because announced relief package is chose Family Practice as her Artist Annie O’Neill, pg. 4 it feels extortionate and out of that the plan is a much better specialty in medical school. It control. And it is. Until recently, Circuit Breaker than hitherto Just A Bite, pg. 6 carries neither the cachet nor contrary to sound tax policy, offered, but may fall short of the financial rewards of the New Village Market & Eatery, pg. 7 this tax had no upper limit or the measures proposed by other specialties, but, “It just relationship to income. Gover- Tax Nightmare. Salamander time, pg. 8 made so much sense to have nor Cuomo’s dramatic January a family doctor who could take announcement that he will fund This is how it will work. When STAR Tax Exemptions, pg. 10 care of everything,” Maggie our Omnibus Consortium Cir- your total property taxes (e.g explains. And Maggie makes HV Seed Library, pg. 11 cuit Breaker—a relief package school, county, local) exceed house calls. Yes, you read aimed at shifting funding for 6% of your income, the state that correctly. Thai T.V. Host, pg. 12 services from the property tax will give you back part of the back to the state coffers—has overage. The rebate depends STS Gardiner, pg. 13 Maggie and her family make changed that to some degree. on your income with the cut their home in Gardiner. A An Enduring Outhouse, pg. 16 Members of Taxnightmare.org Tax, continued page 14 Doctor, continued page 5 A Red Barn Continues Her Watch On History by Bill Harvey There are a lot of beautiful red barns in Gar- diner, many falling to ruin, but the barn with the success story is the one at 471 Guilford Road, owned by Cliff Appeldorn, an archi- tectural designer. You can see how pretty she looks in the photograph, but she wasn’t so pretty when Cliff bought the property in 1986. Back then she was falling down, had big holes in the roof where shingles had flown off; even her enormous nearly 40 foot 200 pound beams were coming down. She was clearly not long for this world. Cliff didn’t have the money to renovate her, so it looked as if she’d have to come down. But something got into him and Cliff put off doing that. Maybe it was feeling for the The red barn on Guilford Road, built over 200 years ago next door to the Guilford Dutch Reformed Church, later the Agor farm, eventually saved from demolition and lovingly restored by Cliff Appeldorn. Photo: Bill Harvey. Visit our facebook page for more. Red Barn, continued page 9 The Gardiner Gazette, Winter 2015 out the Wallkill to identify ar- Wallkill River eas in need of cleanup. To Be Included Does it help to clean part of In Riverkeeper a river when more waste will flow from upstream? Accord- Sweep This May ing to Dana Gulley, River- by Carol O’Biso keeper’s Manager of Strate- gic Partnerships, Outreach On Saturday, May 9th, in its fourth and Volunteer Programs, the annual “Sweep,” New York’s clean answer is an emphatic, Yes. water advocate Riverkeeper will, “Solid waste is a threat to the no doubt, remove thousands of river and its creatures and pounds of debris from the Hudson should be removed, even if Above: Wallkill Sweep leader Arthur Cemelli. Photo courtesy Arthur Ce- River and some of its tributaries; it gets replaced,” she says. melli. Below left: a participant in a previous year’s cleanup of Wapping- last year 1,900 volunteers work- And the Sweep seems to be ers Creek. Photo courtesy Riverkeeper. ing in 82 locations gathered 31 working: last year’s sweep in- water, and get permissions unteers; if you know of a section tons of debris. Due to the efforts volved 36% more volunteers from land owners where pri- of the Wallkill that needs attention, of local man Arthur Cemelli, the and 14% more locations than vate property is involved. “We would like to volunteer to help, or Wallkill River will be added to the the previous year, but pro- also want to make common live on the Wallkill and can offer a list of locations this year. duced 18% less trash. cause with other community drop point for trash, put Saturday, partners who have already May 9th on your calendar and get There are also indirect bene- done Wallkill clean-ups in the in touch with Arthur Cemelli (ACe- fits. “People are less likely to past,” Dana Gulley says. [email protected] or 845 590- pollute if they don’t see trash 7349). To learn more about the already there,” Gulley says, Local businesses donate the Riverkeeper Sweep, contact Dana “and 1,900 local people de- supplies, but what Cemelli Gulley at [email protected] voting part of their day to take needs now is input, and vol- or 914-478-4501 x222. back their waterways starts Back Comment to change the culture of the river community.” The original idea of the sweep was to have the biggest possible impact in one day and Arthur Cemelli, who enjoys working with peo- ple and “thinking on his feet,” Last fall, Cemelli, an electrical en- says, “I am excited by the idea gineer who lives a stone’s throw of getting people involved and from the Gardiner border in the having a bigger effect than I town of Shawangunk, joined a could by myself.” He will work Riverkeeper meeting as part of closely with Riverkeeper to the kayaking meet-up group New- identify public access points, burgh Area Kayakers. There, the coordinate with kayaking plan to include the Wallkill was groups to handle segments hatched. This spring he will scout that must be cleaned from the RICHARD FEINBERG Registered Tax Return Preparer P. O. BOX 147 HOWELLS NY 10932 (845) 386-2542 [email protected] SINCE 1973 RETURNS PREPARED IN YOUR HOME ELECTRONICALLY FILED www.devineinsurance.com Issue #25, page 2 SINCE 1973 RETURNS PREPARED IN YOUR HOME ELECTRONICALLY FILED The Gardiner Gazette, Winter 2015 News From be used to extend the side- would be a great place to serve walks to the ball field, includ- the community of Gardiner. Town Hall ing twenty five additional by Laurie Willow parking spaces. Ah Yes, the Cell Tower Co- meth: Well, the foundation is in, Applying for Grants: At a Town Applying for grants takes work the tower is up, the fence around Board meeting in January a pre- and persistence. What ap- it is being built. The permits are sentation was made by Glenn pears to be needed to secure all in place. Wireless Edge, the Gidaly, a Gardiner resident and more similarly useful grants Wright Farm folks and many professional grant writer. Gidaly is a dedicated paid person or Gardinerites are waiting for word covered the basics of how the a volunteer person or a com- from AT&T, who is the first ten- Town of Gardiner could apply for mittee to focus on grants. It ant on the new tower. grants and low cost loans. Photo: Anne A. Smith There is always some town in- Nadine Lemmon when she Thank You Generous Donors! frastructure that needs financ- was a town council mem- Your response to our request ing, like the Clove Road bridge ber. There were two federal for on-going financial sup- which currently needs rebuilding. grants for phase 1 & 2. Na- port was immediate, and Mr. Gidaly emphasized that ap- dine applied for and won the very greatly appreciated. Our plication for a grant should start first grant in 2006 (though she deepest thanks. Your gifts a year ahead of the deadline. had applied for one in 2005 will help make the Gardiner Most grants require that the town that was denied). The grants Gazette a slightly less stress- match funds. That means that if won were from the Transpor- ful ride! we applied for and won $50,000 tation Enhancements Pro- to fix the bridge, the town board gram: $353,026, (some town Meanwhile, Gracie, the would vote to provide $50,000 in match) and the ARRA grant check-eating Gardiner Ga- matching funds. (stimulus): $1,057,490 (no zette dog says, “I’m a big girl match). Since then Supervi- now and I know better. Please The last major grant that the sor Zatz secured a $50,000 keep sending checks and I town won financed our new grant offered by NYS Sena- promise not to eat them.” sidewalks. This was secured by tor John Bonacic, which will Back Comment Issue #25, page The Gardiner Gazette, Winter 2015 Annie O’Neill: A Local Artist Turns To The Functional by Laurie Willow was from Seaholm’s to Shaft Road, then down to Bruyns- wick and then doing the loop back to North Mountain. It was about five miles and the kids who did it were so proud be- cause we were about eleven and we did it without adults.” It would be many years be- Above, one of Annie O’Neill’s ceramic plates (photo courtesy Annie O’Neill) fore Annie moved to Gardin- and left, Annie (photo courtesy Hudson Valley History Project) er full time.
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