If marriage is outlawed
only outlaws will have in-laws.
only outlaws will have in-laws.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Welcome To Woodbury
Welcome To Woodbury
Please respect our local customs. Be polite. Drive carefully. Do not litter. Do not disrupt any weddings. Please do not set any homes or vehicles on fire. Do not involve our police officers in political disputes.
If you are shopping, please wait your turn and do not use the 10 items or fewer checkout if you have over thirty items.
If you are a registered voter here please attempt to vote only once and remember to use you own name.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Primarily
Elections Hoorah!
Any chance more than 2% of you will get off your asses and vote?
Any chance more than 2% of you will get off your asses and vote?
If so, do so between 6 AM and 9 PM Tuesday, September 14th.
Here’s who you get to choose amongst:
Republicans
Governor:
Rick Lazio
Carl Paladino
Lieutenant Governor:
Gregory Edwards
Thomas Ognibene
US Senate Full Term:
Gary Berntsen
Jay Townsend
US Senate Unexpired Term:
Joseph Dioguardi
David Malpass
Bruce Blakeman
19th Cong. District:
Neil DiCCarlo
Nan Hayworth
Democrats
Attorney General:
Richard Brodsky
Eric Schneiderman
Sean Coffey
Eric Dinallo
Kathleen Rice
US Senate Unexpired Term:
Kirsten Gillibrand
Gail Goode
Conservative
Governor:
Rick Lazio
Ralph Lorigo
Rick Lazio
Ralph Lorigo
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Doles Rolled
Doles' Independence Party petitions invalidated
By Michael Randall
Times Herald Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 08/19/10
A state Supreme Court ruling has removed Harley Doles from the Independence Party primary for the 39th state Senate District because of an insufficient number of valid petition signatures.
That means the incumbent, Bill Larkin, who also filed Independence petitions, will appear on that line in November. Larkin is also on the Republican and Conservative lines. Doles will still be on the Democratic and Working Families lines.
Doles said Monday that he was a victim of a deliberate attempt at fraud. Doles noted State Supreme Court Justice Thomas McNamara ruled he was blameless in the matter.
Larkin campaign manager Ralph Caruso said in addition to problems with individual signatures, the court invalidated a witness to a number of Doles' petition pages.
It seems that Doles was played by the powers that be in KJ and by Larkin.
The KJ leaders offered to get signatures for Harley's petition.
Oddly enough, it appears that:
a) many were invalid
and
b) Larkin knew that they were invalid and immediately challenged them.
It looks like Doles was set up.
Why aren’t we surprised?
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
King Eddie and Our Water
Fron the Pieman:
The Orange County Water Authority is proposing to amend its Water Master Plan into the County Comprehensive Plan.
Some of us are concerned that this may give the County the ability to over-rule the Home Rule of towns and villages and take over municipal water resources.
On Monday, June 14th, there will be a public hearing on this at 7 PM at the Central Valley Elementary School.
Please come.
The Orange County Water Authority is proposing to amend its Water Master Plan into the County Comprehensive Plan.
Some of us are concerned that this may give the County the ability to over-rule the Home Rule of towns and villages and take over municipal water resources.
On Monday, June 14th, there will be a public hearing on this at 7 PM at the Central Valley Elementary School.
Please come.
Friday, June 04, 2010
See You In Court
3 municipalities to sue Kiryas Joel, Orange Ccounty over pipeline, sewage
By Chris Mckenna
Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 06/04/10
Three municipalities plan to sue Orange County and Kiryas Joel over the village's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct and its legal deals with the county involving that water project and the Harriman sewage treatment plant.
The Villages of Harriman and Woodbury and the Town of Woodbury are expected to file a lawsuit in state Supreme Court on Friday that would revive the concerns about sewage treatment that the county deemed settled when it surrendered its objections to Kiryas Joel's pipeline proposal.
"All the stuff that's in there is still extremely valid," Woodbury Supervisor John Burke said Thursday, referring to the pipeline lawsuit that the county dropped in February. "All that was pushed aside."
Burke's Town Board was expected to vote Thursday night to proceed with the litigation. Woodbury village trustees voted 4-0 at a special meeting a week ago to sue and hire lawyers James Bacon and David Gordon to handle the case.
Municipal leaders saw Friday as their deadline to sue because they had 120 days to challenge two environmental documents that county lawmakers approved on Feb. 4, enabling County Executive Ed Diana to withdraw the pipeline lawsuit less than two weeks later.
Both documents amended the environmental review that preceded the last expansion of the county-run sewer plant in Harriman.
A key addition was the requirement that the county provide more sewer service once its current system reaches 85 percent of its capacity.
Burke argues that before dropping the suit, county officials should have consulted with the municipalities that use and pay for the Harriman plant and given at least a rough plan for how additional treatment capacity would be provided.
Woodbury Mayor Michael Queenan concurred: "They're making deals with no regard to anyone else. They don't listen, and there's no communication."
In an op-ed piece in the Times Herald-Record on Sunday, Diana defended his decision to end the pipeline litigation, saying it was part of a settlement that freed up additional treatment capacity for Woodbury and other contractual users of the Harriman sewer plant.
Kiryas Joel had sued to block those communities, but dropped its case when the county stopped its pipeline suit.
By Chris Mckenna
Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 06/04/10
Three municipalities plan to sue Orange County and Kiryas Joel over the village's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct and its legal deals with the county involving that water project and the Harriman sewage treatment plant.
The Villages of Harriman and Woodbury and the Town of Woodbury are expected to file a lawsuit in state Supreme Court on Friday that would revive the concerns about sewage treatment that the county deemed settled when it surrendered its objections to Kiryas Joel's pipeline proposal.
"All the stuff that's in there is still extremely valid," Woodbury Supervisor John Burke said Thursday, referring to the pipeline lawsuit that the county dropped in February. "All that was pushed aside."
Burke's Town Board was expected to vote Thursday night to proceed with the litigation. Woodbury village trustees voted 4-0 at a special meeting a week ago to sue and hire lawyers James Bacon and David Gordon to handle the case.
Municipal leaders saw Friday as their deadline to sue because they had 120 days to challenge two environmental documents that county lawmakers approved on Feb. 4, enabling County Executive Ed Diana to withdraw the pipeline lawsuit less than two weeks later.
Both documents amended the environmental review that preceded the last expansion of the county-run sewer plant in Harriman.
A key addition was the requirement that the county provide more sewer service once its current system reaches 85 percent of its capacity.
Burke argues that before dropping the suit, county officials should have consulted with the municipalities that use and pay for the Harriman plant and given at least a rough plan for how additional treatment capacity would be provided.
Woodbury Mayor Michael Queenan concurred: "They're making deals with no regard to anyone else. They don't listen, and there's no communication."
In an op-ed piece in the Times Herald-Record on Sunday, Diana defended his decision to end the pipeline litigation, saying it was part of a settlement that freed up additional treatment capacity for Woodbury and other contractual users of the Harriman sewer plant.
Kiryas Joel had sued to block those communities, but dropped its case when the county stopped its pipeline suit.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
When the Shit Hits the Harriman Sewage Plant
Camp LaGuardia swamped by sewer issues
Kathy Kahn
Wesrfair Onlione
More than Canada geese are flying over Orange County these days. Lawsuits have also taken wing.
Orange County is currently enmeshed in two lawsuits regarding sewer capacity, one of which could conceivably send a plan to redevelop New York City’s former homeless shelter down the drain. The second suit involves Kiryas Joel and its quest for greater capacity.
Mountco Construction of Scarsdale, the successful bidder for the county-owned parcel, needs triple the property’s current sewer capacity in order to move forward to develop the 260-acre site.
Mountco’s proposed project calls for more than 800 homes, nearly a quarter-million square feet of retail/commercial space and a “town square” that would be the focal point of the new community. Mountco is also negotiating to have a satellite campus for Mount St. Mary College at the site, pledging to give the school an initial 10,000 square feet of space and more if the college needs it going forward.
But nothing can move forward unless Mountco has the sewer capacity for the project, “and we don’t have it to give,” said town of Chester Supervisor Steve Neuhaus.
When the sewer bill came due for Camp LaGuardia, both Blooming Grove and Chester refused to pay what the county considered to be the municipalities’ portion, sending the county to court to recover a total of $65,400 on the $140,000 in charges.
“We’re all upset,” said Neuhaus, referring to himself, town of Blooming Grove Supervisor Frank Fornario and developer Joel Mounty. “Rather than sit down and discuss this in a healthy manner, the county filed a lawsuit.”
Fornario said he would confer with Neuhaus over how to proceed with the county.
Neuhaus said the county cannot put Mountco into Sewer District No. 1, the county’s recently expanded sewage treatment plant in Harriman, because others have waited for sewer capacity before Mountco’s project was proposed. “We can’t give away sewer capacity pledged to others so this project can proceed. It’s not only a bad precedent, it’s literally opening the floodgates for more litigation,” said Neuhaus. “There’s a real lack of communication going on here. Why can’t we all just sit down and discuss this?”
Camp LaGuardia’s need for more capacity is not the only hurdle the county is facing. It is being sued by the village of Kiryas Joel for more sewer capacity in the same sewer district.
Mountco did not return calls for comment, nor did the county executive’s office.
Kathy Kahn
Wesrfair Onlione
More than Canada geese are flying over Orange County these days. Lawsuits have also taken wing.
Orange County is currently enmeshed in two lawsuits regarding sewer capacity, one of which could conceivably send a plan to redevelop New York City’s former homeless shelter down the drain. The second suit involves Kiryas Joel and its quest for greater capacity.
Mountco Construction of Scarsdale, the successful bidder for the county-owned parcel, needs triple the property’s current sewer capacity in order to move forward to develop the 260-acre site.
Mountco’s proposed project calls for more than 800 homes, nearly a quarter-million square feet of retail/commercial space and a “town square” that would be the focal point of the new community. Mountco is also negotiating to have a satellite campus for Mount St. Mary College at the site, pledging to give the school an initial 10,000 square feet of space and more if the college needs it going forward.
But nothing can move forward unless Mountco has the sewer capacity for the project, “and we don’t have it to give,” said town of Chester Supervisor Steve Neuhaus.
When the sewer bill came due for Camp LaGuardia, both Blooming Grove and Chester refused to pay what the county considered to be the municipalities’ portion, sending the county to court to recover a total of $65,400 on the $140,000 in charges.
“We’re all upset,” said Neuhaus, referring to himself, town of Blooming Grove Supervisor Frank Fornario and developer Joel Mounty. “Rather than sit down and discuss this in a healthy manner, the county filed a lawsuit.”
Fornario said he would confer with Neuhaus over how to proceed with the county.
Neuhaus said the county cannot put Mountco into Sewer District No. 1, the county’s recently expanded sewage treatment plant in Harriman, because others have waited for sewer capacity before Mountco’s project was proposed. “We can’t give away sewer capacity pledged to others so this project can proceed. It’s not only a bad precedent, it’s literally opening the floodgates for more litigation,” said Neuhaus. “There’s a real lack of communication going on here. Why can’t we all just sit down and discuss this?”
Camp LaGuardia’s need for more capacity is not the only hurdle the county is facing. It is being sued by the village of Kiryas Joel for more sewer capacity in the same sewer district.
Mountco did not return calls for comment, nor did the county executive’s office.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hoorahs, Horseshoes and Handgrenades
Congratulations to Neil Crouse and David Sutz, and in Monroe: James Purcell, Teddy Wright and Wayne Chan, winners in their village elections.
Congrats also to Lorraine McNeil, John Karl, Charlie Lesser and Inda Stora, both for past service and their willingness to put themselves out there.
Congrats, lastly, to the few hundred who managed to get down to the polls and vote.
And to the vast majority, who couldn't be bothered, who knew for a fact that one vote doesn't make any difference, we'll point out that David won by eight votes and James won by two.
If you'd voted the winning margins might have been larger or the outcomes different, no one will ever know because it just wasn't worth your time.
To quote Ken Starr as he logged Monica's dress into evidence: "Clothes, but no cigar."
Congrats also to Lorraine McNeil, John Karl, Charlie Lesser and Inda Stora, both for past service and their willingness to put themselves out there.
Congrats, lastly, to the few hundred who managed to get down to the polls and vote.
And to the vast majority, who couldn't be bothered, who knew for a fact that one vote doesn't make any difference, we'll point out that David won by eight votes and James won by two.
If you'd voted the winning margins might have been larger or the outcomes different, no one will ever know because it just wasn't worth your time.
To quote Ken Starr as he logged Monica's dress into evidence: "Clothes, but no cigar."
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Village of the Damp
The Election Results:
Crouse: 237
Sutz: 177
McNeil: 169
Write Ins:
Meyers: 1 (see I told you)
Kling: 2
Crouse: 237
Sutz: 177
McNeil: 169
Write Ins:
Meyers: 1 (see I told you)
Kling: 2
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