After 40 years in business, Luigi Mazella, owner of Casa Mia Restaurant on Rte. 9W in Highland, has decided to retire. His 6,500-square-foot establishment and a 915-square-foot farm stand will be razed to make way for a new Sawyer Savings Bank, to be built on the site this year. Read more…
Last week the Highland Police Department concluded the investigation of a March 5 incident when School Resource Officer [SRO] Sean McCutcheon discharged his weapon, a standard issue Glock .45-caliber model 21, in a hallway at the high school while he was on duty. Read more…
The Marlboro Community Concerns [MCC] organization has recently made their concerns known to the Board of Education in a new, but very American way, by organizing peaceful rallies just before the meetings begin. They will do so again on Thursday night at 6:30 pm. just outside the elementary school cafeteria entrance for a “Trim the Fat” and “Cut Costs Not Programs” rally as they continue to make their case before the board and in the court of public opinion. Read more…
Carrying signs and placards, dozens of concerned community members of the Marlboro Central School District marched from the Marlboro Elementary School’s cafeteria to the gymnasium for Thursday night’s meeting of the school board. During the short walk down the crowded hallway, one parent asked of another: “Are we supposed to chant or something?” Read more…
On March 5 at 1:38 pm, SRO Sean McCutheon’s weapon was discharged in a hallway of the Highland High School. The district released a statement on their website, indicating that the SRO program is on hold pending further investigation. Read more…
“It’s my property,” said Bob Pollock, after Monday night’s Planning Board meeting. “I want to be able to use it for whatever I want to use it for.” Read more…
On March 3, at 3:22 pm, the State Police at Highland, responded to the Hess Gas Station on St-299 in the Town of Lloyd for the report of a robbery at that location. Witnesses at the scene reported a male in his late 20s had entered the store and demanded cash from the cashier. Read more…
In just a few words, the torch of leadership was passed to Councilman Joe Croce who was sworn in last week as the new Plattekill town supervisor following the death of Bruce Loertscher. Read more…
Negotiations between representatives of the Marlboro Teachers Association [MFA] and the school district fell apart last Friday night after marathon discussions failed to produce an agreement acceptable to both sides. Read more…
Republican Plattekill Supervisor Bruce Loertscher passed away on February 12 at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer. Prior to his election as supervisor in 2006, Loertscher served 4 years on the Town Board and earlier was a member of the Planning Board. His public service began after his retirement from Yellow Freight. Read more…
Lloyd Supervisor Paul Hansut said there is a desperate need for more space at Town Hall. Read more…
Members of the Marlboro Board of Education appeared to take no pleasure in what they all knew they had to do at last week’s school board meeting; each voted in favor of closing the Milton and Middle Hope elementary schools, effective June 30, 2013. Read more…
Lloyd Supervisor Paul Hansut invited Town Justices Terry Elia and Eugene Rizzo to last week’s Town Board meeting to discuss having an armed Lloyd police officer present when court is in session. Read more…
It made no difference last Saturday that the air temperature was 20 degrees or that the lake water temperature at Berean Park in Highland was enough to make anyone run for the warmth of a crackling fire; a dedicated band of individuals, dressed in brightly colored costumes, went right ahead and plunged into the icy water. Read more…
The group Marlboro Community Concerns continues to meet to plan and prepare for the fiscal difficulties that lie ahead concerning the school district. Read more…
