Vol. 36, No. 6 3 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018
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Domestic violence call leads to drug arrest
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
Officers from the Village of Maybrook
and Town of Montgomery responded to
a call at 110 Wiley St. last Tuesday for a
suicidal subject.
“The subject was barricaded and had a
gun,” said Town of Montgomery Lt. Alex
Landolina. “We responded to the scene,
made a perimeter around the building
and set up a command post and called
the [Special Operations Group] from the
Orange County Sheriff’s Department.”
The incident occurred just a few
houses down from where Maybrook Chief
of Police Arnold Amthor was shot last
May.
“We’re not playing games with this
anymore,” said Maybrook Mayor Dennis
Leahy. “Somebody barricaded themselves
in and there’s a possibility of them being
armed. We had all the agencies that came
in and I appreciated the quick response
from them. The most important thing is
that they isolated that area and they had
the place surrounded. They did what they
had to do.”
Landolina said that a domestic violence
call came in earlier in the evening to the
same location and the New York State
Police had a warrant for the subject.
After approximately two hours the
suspect, Alex Livingston, surrendered
without incident and was turned over to
the New York State Police for pending
weapons and domestic violence charges.
Officers from Montgomery and
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T ake Y our C hild to the L ibrary D ay
Thumbs
down for
solar plan
Borden neighbors
say it will hurt their
property values
By TED REMSNYDER
Jaspreet Gill
Brothers Ryan Zheng (L) and Eric Zheng (center) are read books by library employees Daniel Atonna and Abby Williams during National Bring
Your Child to the Library Day, Saturday, at the Josephine-Louise Public Library in Walden.
The first round of public feedback
to the proposed solar development on
the Borden Home Farm property was
universally negative on Thursday evening
at the Shawangunk Town Board meeting,
as the council held a public hearing on
its proposed solar legislation. As written,
the local law would not permit the 94-acre
Borden solar farm to be built, as the bill
limits large-scale solar sites to 20 acres in
the municipality. But with the Geronimo
Energy company asking for the law to
be amended to allow for the Minnesota-
based company to develop the Borden
property, numerous town residents spoke
out against the project during the Feb. 1
public hearing.
Borden Road resident Al Lawrence told
the board that the proposed solar farm,
which would take up 124 acres including
fencing, would damage the character of
the town. “As someone who bought an
old home there and has put a lot into
trying to fix it up, we admire the bucolic
nature of the area and frankly hope it
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