- February
- 12
They should for anyone dining tonight at Del Arte Restaurant in Orangeburg.
As part of a fundraiser to support breast cancer research, County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, Rockland Community College President Cliff Wood and Orangetown Town Board Member Denis Troy, among other notable Rocklanders, will be serving food starting at 7:30 p.m.
The John Carollo Cooking Class fundraiser supports the Brest Buddies two-day, 26-mile Avon Walk for breast cancer research.
Anyone wanna place bets on who will drop the first plate?
Posted by Sarah Netter on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 2:19 pm |
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- January
- 8
Here are some highlights of last night’s reorganizational meeting of the Orangetown Town Board.
• Nancy Low-Hogan, who was sworn in as a member of the Orangetown Town Board last night, promised to hold monthly meetings with the community to talk about town issues.
• Michael Maturo, a 23-year-old from Sparkill, was also sworn in as a Town Board member. Interestingly, he started his speech by remarking on the great diversity in the room, even though he was more or less talking to a room of white people. Elaborating, he mentioned the diversity in ages and that fact that people came from all parts of town for the meeting.
• Justice Paul Phinney used his swearing in to make another plea for his department. He thanked his staff, who he said worked day and night and through the lunch hour. He estimated that his office was 20 to 40 percent understaffed, but his pleas went unheard during budget time, when the Town Board cut funding to his office.
• Denis Troy joked about his status as the board’s last-standing Republican, but after the meeting said he was not worried about the board’s new 4-1 Democratic majority. His only concern was that Supervisor Thom Kleiner would use the pulpit to push liberal-agenda items such as Indian Point and climate change, which Troy said had as much to do with the town as the man in the moon. Kleiner, of course, disagrees.
• Kleiner gave a predictable State of the Town address, where he talked about ongoing development, senior housing and traffic calming. He also offered examples where the town could help the improve the environment, such as reducing its energy use.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 5:27 pm |
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- November
- 14
Looks like a lonely two years for Denis Troy.
Come January, he will be the only Republican on the Orangetown Town Board, now that Denis O’Donnell and Thomas Morr have lost their seats to Democrats.
Morr was locked in a close race with Democrat Michael Maturo at first. But after poll numbers were readjusted and absentee ballots counted, Maturo came out the winner.
Not only have Democrats seized control of the board, but they have done so with a 4-1 majority. Town residents are waiting to see how the Democrats will use their new might.
Posted by Hannan Adely on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 at 6:52 pm |
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- October
- 26
An ideological debate over illegal immigrants and global warming spilled out into Orangetown Town Hall Monday.
Republicans Tom Morr, Denis O’Donnell and Denis Troy voted for a resolution condemning the Gov. Spitzer’s plan to give driver licenses to illegal immigrants, arguing the measure would devalue the licenses and could put the public at risk. Supervisor Thom Kleiner and board member Marie Manning abstained. Kleiner said he had not made up his mind on the issue and that law enforcement officials had mixed reviews on the measure.
During the same meeting, Kleiner and Marie Manning, the board’s lone Democrats, supported a resolution to adopt the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which calls on communities and the federal government to take steps to reduce global warming. The GOP voted against it, saying they disagreed with aspects of the resolution. Morr and Kleiner reportedly traded barbs about whether global warming was a human-made condition.
Ultimately, Troy said he did disagreed with the resolution because of its support for the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that requires countries to reduce greenhouse gas emission. He thought it would hurt the US in its competition with China.
“We just have different philosophies on that,� he said. “I believe that Kyoto agreement would be an economic catastrophe.�
Posted by Hannan Adely on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 6:34 pm |
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