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We are pleased to note that the Village of Millbrook is attracting the kind of attention it needs. People are organizing, the Millbrook Business Association is motivated, the discussions are meaningful and a positive attitude is building. One message is getting across: the rents have to be...

Illegal Logging and Sustainability

Last week we met Clint Thorn at the Fine Home Show. He is a first-rate furniture maker who uses rare wood, much of it sourced from tropical rain forests. These woods make for finishes with great visual and tactile interest. They also raise questions about sustainability and honesty, issues of...

Our County legislator

During the month of September the County Executive met with legislators and business groups to unveil portions of his 2013 Executive Budget that will be publicly released in late October. Due to a $40-million budget gap it is expected to have a sting on several fronts. Already...

To the Editor:

It has been a few weeks since New Yorkers learned that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arranged a secretive $103,000 payoff to female employees who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Assemblyman Vito Lopez. In addition to being an assemblyman, he is the Democratic Party...

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A note on the Town of Washington’s Draft Comprehensive Plan

The draft comprehensive plan now circulating electronically bears little resemblance to what would be called “state of the art” plans prepared by leading planning firms.

But it is refreshingly direct, and it...

To the Editor:

the current debate over the Affordable Healthcare Act (i.e., “Obamacare”) seems to have a lot of rhetoric and very few answers to effectively dealing with the cost of healthcare. All of us agree changes need to be made to our current system, but the current legislation seems to create many more...

Notes from the field

Wild Hive in Salt Point closed its doors last Sunday. The retail shop and bakery quietly went out of business. Owner Don Lewis said the business did not support itself, and he was no longer able to support it. There were tears as two bakers lost their jobs.

Lewis will continue to...

County Considers Fracking Legislation

Will fracking fracture the county legislature? Perhaps. For the first time county government takes up the contentious issue of fracking. It promises to be a several month-long discussion. On our agenda for discussion in September is a local law that would consider banning the use of hydraulic...

To the Editor:

While there was never any obvious attempt to organize a public gathering at the bus stop corner when Mark Reinhardt and Lydia Binotto set out a literature table about the Occupy Wall Street movement, some people, including the mayor, believed this was so. Anyone who stopped by to discuss the...

Stray observations

by Stephen Kaye

Porto Ercole— While the conversation is about a soft economy, fewer tourists and less spending, the government has not laid off workers; ministries plod along as they always have. Since last September the waterfront drives both here and Porto Santo Stefano have been repaved with granite...

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