Tag: consolidation

For better or worse, people like their government close, even if it costs more. Will the county’s application pass final ...

Merging town and village of Saugerties services was done successfully several years ago when the village police department was folded ...

Trustee Don Hackett (photo provided) If village of Saugerties trustee Don Hackett gets his way, there will be no merging ...

The view from a town plow truck (photo by Alen Fetahi) Officials from the town and village of Saugerties met ...

One of the most frequently touted benefits of consolidating the town and village governments is that it would make non-partisan ...

(Photo by Lauren Thomas) After more than five hours of heated debate, village and town officials in New Paltz came ...

Members of the New Paltz Consolidation Finance Committee met last Monday night for the first in a series of public ...

Sally Rhoads. What was slated to be a ho-hum New Paltz Village Board meeting with only one agenda item quickly ...

(Photo by Lauren Thomas) Despite the protests of Mayor Jason West, a majority of the New Paltz village and town ...

The New Paltz village and town boards. (photo by Lauren Thomas) The final financial study of a consolidated New Paltz ...

(Photo by Lauren Thomas) After more than three hours of discussion and public comment, New Paltz’s elected officials essentially opted ...

(Illustration by Rick Holland) If it all works out the way the majority of the village and town boards hope, ...

After a 19-month study, with little public engagement outside of the Steering Committee and Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), New Paltz ...

For the Town of Lloyd, 2011 began with a bitter note -- the announcement that St. Augustine School would close ...

The year 2011 saw some wild weather, political changings-of-the-guard, scandals, survivors and a community that came together during the most ...