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COXSACKIE — Coxsackie is this week bidding adieu to Margaret Chaloner — known affectionately as Marge — the village’s first female mayor. Chaloner died Jan. 8 in Olathe, Kansas, where she moved in 2017. She was 85. But prior to moving to Kansas she was a lifelong Coxsackie resident, and her family — the Houghtalings — has deep roots in the community, going back many generations.
Her wake was held Tuesday at W.C. Brady’s Sons Funeral Home in Coxsackie, and her funeral was held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Albany on Wednesday. In addition to her many roles in the village of Coxsackie, Chaloner was the village’s first female mayor, serving one term from 1993 to 1995. Prior to that, she was a member of the village board for two terms. Longtime village trustee Dianne Ringwald served with Chaloner in the 1990s.
“Marge was good to work with. She was concerned with a lot of things that were going on in the vilMargaret lage,” Ring“Marge” wald said. Chaloner “She worked with everyone, but she was tough. She put her all into the job.” Ringwald recalled two major projects Chaloner worked
on during her term as mayor. “She was a good mayor. She worked on the sewer and sidewalks downtown — that is how we got new sidewalks down on Reed Street,” Ringwald said. ”She was always working on trying to get grants for the village, and she did get a couple.” Chaloner and Ringwald were also involved years later in establishing a World War II memorial in the village. Chaloner was a graduate of Coxsackie-Athens High School, Class of 1951, and
graduated from Union College School of Nursing. In 2015, the Coxsackie-Athens Foundation for Education inducted her into the district’s Wall of Fame for her work with the village as both mayor and trustee, and for the many other roles she has filled — serving on the Greene County Hospital Board of Managers, the Hudson Valley Girl Scout Board of Directors and the Riverside Cemetery Board of Directors, as well as her work with the See CHALONER A8
Parties spar over criminal justice reforms
Girls basketball ICC earns Colonial Council victory PAGE B1
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Stefanik calls for bail study She wants to see effect on pre-trial supervision PAGE A8
n THE SCENE MASSARAH MIKATI/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA ABOVE: State Sen. Jamaal Bailey, standing at podium, tells supporters that the new bail reform laws should remain intact.
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MASSARAH MIKATI/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Assemblyman Will Barclay, center, at podium, says the state’s new bail reform laws should be repealed or amended. At left is Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky.
ALBANY — It was a battle of press conferences at the State Capitol Building Wednesday, as the legislature’s majority and minority parties continued to spar over the criminal justice reforms rolled out two weeks ago. A press room in the Legislative Office Building was overflowing with participants and speakers for a press conference held by Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120,
that featured law enforcement officials and two families of crime victims whose alleged perpetrators were released pre-trial without cash bail.
SEE RELATED STORY, PAGE A8 The reforms include eliminating bail for individuals charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, and mandating district attorney’s offices to turn over evidence in cases in 15 days. “This isn’t fear-mongering, See REFORMS A8
Bill would guarantee immigrant legal counsel By Massarah Mikati Johnson Newspapers
ALBANY — The 2020 legislative session has continued the previous year’s initiatives to establish more rights for immigrants. The day after activists and lawmakers rallied at the state Capitol to bar U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests around courthouses, state Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-27, and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-39, introduced the Access to Representation Act. The new piece of legislation would create a statutory right to a lawyer for New Yorkers facing deportation who cannot afford their own attorneys. “While immigration law is civil in nature, the consequences of violating the law are the same as those faced by criminal defendants — loss of liberty, forced separation from family, or
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State Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-27, speaks to reporters at a press conference about the fight to ban flavored tobacco sales in the state.
worse — death when forced to return to a country that persecutes their very existence,” Cruz said in a statement
Wednesday. “Our bill seeks to right this wrong by ensuring that the promises made by
our Constitution are provided to everyone, not simply those who are able to afford it.” Data has found nearly 80% of immigrants facing deportation who have attorneys win their cases, as opposed to 15% of those without attorneys. “The Access to Representation Act ... will provide due process to all New Yorkers and add some fairness to our unjust immigration system,” Hoylman said in a statement. The piece of legislation comes seven months after the New York State Bar Association published a resolution about the need for access to attorneys among immigrants, urging the state Legislature to enact such a law. “If we’re truly committed within the state of New York to people having their rights for justice and due process to be had in our courts, including See BILL A8