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Cascino thumbs nose at town |
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Written by DIANE VALDEN
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:20 |
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Says he's a 'farmer' and can do what he wants
COPAKE--Salvatore Cascino doesn't like the way he is being treated by the Town of Copake, so he's going to do what he wants, and he said so in a letter read aloud at the May 10 Town Board meeting.
Mr. Cascino, 72, a resident of Larchmont, owns 300 acres along the east side of Route 22 from about the southern entrance to the Copake hamlet south to County Route 3. He named the place Copake Valley Farm and for the past 15 years has racked up violations of federal, state and town laws there related to everything from illegal dumping in a protected trout stream to building and excavating without securing proper permits. Mr. Cascino is also the owner of Bronx County Recycling, a downstate waste-hauling business.
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Voters adopt most school budgets |
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Written by Parry Teasdale
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:29 |
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GHENT--Voters around Columbia County have supported school budgets and a small number of additional spending propositions. The exception was Germantown, the only one of the six local public school districts that presented a budget that exceeded the state’s nominal 2% cap on annual property tax increases.
The Hudson City School District has not yet reported its results. All the other districts have issued their results.
To adopt its budget, which called for a 5.2% increase in the tax levy, the Germantown budget proposition would have required that at least 60% of voters supported the measure. The results of the machine vote before absentee ballots were counted indicated that only about 43% of voters supported the budget. School officials said turnout was high.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:34 |
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G'town district has crowded race, high hurdle |
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Written by DEBBY MAYER
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Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:09 |
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GERMANTOWN--Voters in the Germantown Central School District have a choice of five candidates to fill two open Board of Election seats and will decide whether to adopt a $13,678,668 budget for the district.
The budget is smaller by $263,933, or 1.9%, compared to the current year's $13,942,601 spending plan. The reduction was arrived at during months of wrangling by the school board and Superintendent Patrick Gabriel, and extended discussion in well-attended public meetings.
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Hudson Farmers Market turns 15 as local growing season begins |
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Written by DEBORA GILBERT
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:11 |
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HUDSON--On Saturday, May 12, a crowd of shoppers and local dignitaries congregated at the Hudson Farmers Market at 6th and Columbia Streets to celebrate its 15th anniversary at a grand opening with speeches accompanied by music and the roll of drums.
The market was started in 1997 by the late Milton Meisner with help from his friend Dr. Norman Posner, who had recently retired from his ob-gyn medical practice and wanted something to do.
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Mayor urges support for school/park proposition |
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Written by EMILIA TEASDALE
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 15:25 |
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VALATIE--Mayor Gary Strevell said this week that he hoped district residents vote to support the propositions on the May 15 ballot at the Ichabod Crane School District elections. The propositions would hand over the leases to the Martin H. Glynn School in the village and the park across the street to the Town of Kinderhook and the village.
Speaking at the regular Village Board meeting Tuesday, May 8, the mayor said, “I would not want to see that building deteriorate,” referring to the now-vacant school. The district closed the school last summer due to declining enrollment and budget issues. District administrators and the local governments have been in negotiations for several months over a lease for the building.
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