- June
- 13
It was fairly typical as far as conventions go, although I noted a few oddities:
—While he was in the audience, Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence did not make an obligatory short, heavy joke at Chairman Vince Monte’s expense as in previous years.
—I got told I looked like one of the Zebrowski kids. (Note to readers who haven’t met me: I look NOTHING like any of the Zebrowski kids.)
—None of the supervisors performed the dance they did at a recent charity event. This is less an oddity and more just something I had been hoping for.
—Thom Kleiner was wearing a tie with puppies on it.
—When getting ready to introduce the party’s candidate for state Senate, Monte, trying to rile up the crowd, proclaimed: “We didn’t field a candidate, I think, the last two times.” About eight rows back, the 2006 candidate, Orangetown Board Member Nancy Low-Hogan raised her hand, as Monte struggled to dig himself out of that one. Ouch.
—It was held in the Clarkstown Town Hall auditorium. Usually it’s somewhere like a theater, a restaurant or a community center or anything that doesn’t smack of government-controlled interior decorating.
Posted by Sarah Netter on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 6:26 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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