Vol. IX No. 3 Fall 2015

The Newsletter of Franklin Local Vol. IX, No. 3 Franklin, New York FALL 2015 ‘INDEPENDENT, FEARLESS AND FREE’ ROUNDABOUT HELP IS NEARBY REVISION Family Health & Community Staff Report Walk-In Opening in Franklin The New York State De- partment of Transportation By Patricia Tyrell has revised the plan for the roundabout at the inter- The onset of the school year heralds the section of state highways start of cold and flu season, with the kids 357 and 28. This came bringing more from school than home- in response to concerns work - sniffles, coughs, upset stomachs, FNP Gregg Kujawski Photo by the author from the Howland family leading to more frequent visits to a medi- provided health care within a number of who live just north of the cal practitioner. For too long, residents of communities, beginning in Monticello and intersection. Franklin have been required to seek even Revised plan of intersection Kingston and, working his way closer to his The change moves the basic medical care outside town limits. hometown of Franklin, at thriving practices transfer lane of Rt. 28 South be completed no later than Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Gregg in Norwich and Walton. He has also affili- to Rt. 357 West (the dark spring of 2017. This work Kujawski is working to change this, now of- ated with several area hospitals, provid- gray band on the plan) so could overlap the construc- fering quality and affordable community ing emergency medical services, includ- that a vehicle speeding tion of the Constitution health care just outside the village, with ing: Delaware Valley Hospital, Chenango without brakes might pass pipeline, which would use care focused on the patient. A graduate of County Memorial Hospital, Catskill Re- by the circle on the west- both routes to supply the SUNY Delhi’s Registered Nursing program, gional Medical Center, and A.O. Fox Me- ern side and continue into project. Syracuse University’s MSN program, and a morial Hospital. the fields to the south. The cost is estimated board certified FNP since 2001, Gregg has With his diverse experience and dy- The current schedule is at $850,000, which is to be been providing medical care to individuals namic personality, Gregg has committed for bids to be let in June of paid by the Federal High- near and far for more than fourteen years. See HELP, continued on Page 5 2016, with construction to way Safety Improvement For more than a decade, Gregg has begin in the fall of 2016 and Program. 2015 ELECTION SPECIAL SEE PAGES 6 AND 7 VOTE NOVEMBER 3RD PILOT PRETENSE By Brian Brock line be built, Franklin INSIDE might receive substantial THIS ISSUE... Property taxes are the property taxes on the mid- primary support for local stream compressor station. REGULAR FEATURES: governments. In the Town The Constitution pipeline Neighbor’s View Pg. 2 of Franklin, the 2014 bud- would eventually need a Letters to the Editor Pg. 2 Don and Louise Hebbard in their sun-warmed dining room get of $1.85 million was similar facility to boost ca- The Mayor’s Corner Pg. 3 supported by $1.29 million pacity, although not nec- Pet Talk Pg. 4 LIVING LIGHTLY ON THE EARTH of property taxes – seventy essarily in Franklin. Not In the Kitchen Pg. 5 Murder at the FFM Pg.18 percent of total. surprisingly, these taxes Real Estate Sales Pg.20 By Carole Marner Photos by Eugene Marner Should the Northeast are cited as the principle Energy Direct West (for- FRANKLIN LOCAL: We are all deeply embedded in a society that thrives merly Supply Path) pipe- See PILOT, con’t on Page 17 by exploiting resources while polluting the environ- “Apocalypse Now?” Pg. 2 Christmas Stroll Pg. 3 ment. This is not something we can change overnight nor THE CofC Harvest Dance Pg. 3 even in a few decades. Our industrial revolution devel- Upcoming Elections Pg. 6 oped within a history where scarcity was a certainty and Equalization Rates Pg. 9 abundance a rare blessing. This is still true for most of LUCKY DOG mankind but we, the fortunate benefactors of the plenty FOOD HUB FOCUS ON ENERGY: produced by the scientific innovations of the last couple Gas Ponzi Scheme Pg. 8 of hundred years, are finally becoming aware, thanks to By Alexis Greene Town Comp. Plan Pg. 8 that same science, of the perils and the high price of the Pipelines and Power Pg. 9 path we are on. We are learning that we can gradually The name Lucky Dog came about because we like to Heating with Wood Pg.10 slow the pace of our pillaging of earth’s riches -- without take in strays, says Richard Giles, who, with his wife, Hol- Water Care Booklet Pg.10 going back to living in caves -- by continually deepening ley White, owns the certified organic Lucky Dog Farm in National Water Grid? Pg.11 our knowledge of the ways things work in nature. Hamden. They also like challenges. LOCAL ARTS: So what can each of us do? Giles hails from the farms of Mississippi; White comes Jim Mullen Reviews Pg.12 With every decision, we must consider the destructive from Texas. But they met in New York City, and in 2000, Teens on Stage Pg.12 impact of the way we live, how it is caused and how it can following a yen to leave the metropolis, they bought a 45- UpState Arts Pg.13 be mitigated, so that the impact of our lives can achieve acre dairy farm in the valley that borders the West Branch Jason Starr on Music Pg.13 greater harmony with nature. of the Delaware River. The cows were long gone. Poet’s Choice Pg.14 See SOLAR, continued on Page 11 See LUCKY, continued on Page 15 “The Ouleout in June” Pg.17 Page 2 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 Your Neighbor’s View... TO OUR out of state, in Canada or in trying to convince New Mexico, a country with the Yorkers that this project GOVERNOR AND least environmental and will benefit us, when it is re- MY NEIGHBORS worker safety protections. ally an example of greed, Empire State Development land theft (over a hundred Sidney is the “industrial gave Amphenol $750,000 to twenty properties served hub” of Delaware County, stay in Sidney after floods in with condemnation orders) says the IDA. Three of our 2006 and 2011. and an arrogant industry four Superfund sites are at- With money Amphenol dictating terms to our DEC. tributed to Amphenol. The is not paying in US corpo- If this sales pitch is suc- federally regulated Super- rate tax, and money they cessful, we lose our green- fund program is designed are not paying US workers, field status and will live to remediate the worst why do they still have their with sickening fracked gas cases of pollution nation- hand out to cash strapped infrastructure for the rest wide that local municipali- Delaware County? CEO of our lives. If fracked gas ties cannot pay for. Indus- Rick Aiken said it is wages makes a mess in Sidney or try has been putting bread not fuel costs that make Franklin, which might get a and poison on the table in working in the states un- Compressor Station, the oil Sidney for generations. economic. Later, that same and gas industry is exempt Amphenol’s jobs are $750,000 was supposed to from EPA Clean Air And repeatedly and singularly be used to “tap” Consti- Clean Water regulations cited as the reason to al- tution Pipeline. Perhaps and from Superfund clean- low Constitution Pipeline Leatherstocking’s four taps up protection legislation. through NY. Amphenol em- were never economically Small towns like ours ploys possibly seven hun- feasible and this gas is for will be on their own. APOCALYPSE NOW? dred workers, down from the export? Constitution Pipe- nine thousand of fifty years line spokespersons have Cathy McNulty Then what? ago. Most workers now are been backpedaling and Sidney Center NY By Patricia Tyrell ON CARE FOR is handed over to the blind consumerism, which prior- Originally, this article was to examine apocalyptic be- forces of the unconscious, itizes short-term gain and OUR liefs among “thirty-somethings” and the impacts of such of immediate needs, of self- private interest, can make thoughts upon behavior and society overall. Being a thir- COMMON HOME interest, and of violence.” it easy to rubber-stamp ty-something, I have observed my cohort generation (in- The reader is given inex- authorization or conceal cluding myself) as being particularly invested in apoca- Stock markets and pensive suggestions on information.” lyptic fantasy and anticipation: a generation raised upon economists are closely how to become a happy, Will Pope Francis’ the precipice of pre-apocalyptic probability. We have, af- watching how consumers sustainable consumer. This words of love for our com- ter all, survived at least five major apocalyptic predictions will respond to the land- way we can show a convic- mon home and its inhabit- in our relatively short life spans. mark encyclical letter from tion and attitude to protect ants fall on deaf ears, or will But as I looked more closely, I saw that a looming Pope Francis, Encyclical on Earth and the environment. his words move us to do our doomsday is on the minds of many people of all ages, and Climate Change and Equal- Many references are part to make a difference? for many reasons. Religion has always provided a signifi- ity: On Care of Our Com- made to developing re- “Obstructionist attitudes, cant source of apocalyptic beliefs.

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