A story ran today that United Water is engineering for a new desalination plant in North Rockland. Admitedly, that sounds like the begining of a long and tedious battle. Desalination is a great idea, but when these things involve the Hudson River, a whole different group of enviromentalists take the stage. That dosen’t bode well for a quick [...]
Archive for January, 2008
more...Traffic Flow in Haverstraw
January 26th, 2008 by Bart
An acute lack of traffic control is evident in Haverstraw lately, as private contractors from everywhere have conspired to inturrupt the flow of traffic to complete long overdue infrastructure upgrades. For the sake of a couple of detour signs and a barebones plan, traffic was at times stopped dead, often routed the wrong way on one-ways and sent [...]
Haverstraw and the 2008 State of the Town
January 9th, 2008 by Bart
The Journal News recently reported on the Annual Town of Haverstraw reorganization meeting. It seems they were looking for some kind of statement from the Supervisor on the State of the Town. Its traditional and expected, kind of like a ‘second’ after a motion, something they could sink their teeth into. Acting Rotellain, Mr. Phillips chose to break [...]