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SCHOOL VOTING
Voters approve library funding
This Week ELIZABETHTOWN IN THE REGION
Saratoga Railway expands season
By Thom Randall
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thom@denpubs.com WA R R E N S B U R G — F o r over a century, Richards Library has been a landmark cultural institution in Warrensburg. This week, the library passed a significant milestone. The public voted Tuesday May 15 — by a vote of 481 to 272 — to provide the library with local tax funding, the first in its 111-year history. This approved annual stipend of $98,100, which will supplement Richards Library’s operating budget, will allow the completion of the institution’s stalled expansion project. A large addition was built onto the compact but grand stone building about six years ago, doubling its floorspace while preserving its historic architecture. But the expansion project was put on hold soon after construction began because the library ‘s endowment — CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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Boat plan urged to tackle invasives After casting his votes Tuesday May 15, Warrensburg resident Dave Spatz exits from a voting booth in the Warrensburg High School gym lobby while school election official Patti MicGlire (right) observes. Citizens throughout Warren County approved their school district budgets handily in the annual election, but ousted a number of incumbent school board members.
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School budgets pass, some incumbents ousted By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — Voters throughout northern Warren County approved their local 2012-13 school district budgets — restrained under the state’s
2 percent tax cap — by a hefty margin on Tuesday May 15. In Warrensburg, voters endorsed a $18.6 million budget that represented a $175,000 increase, or about a 0.1 percent hike in expenditures and a tax levy increase of $125,500 or 1.6 percent. The vote was 485 to 272 for approval. In Lake George, where the school
district officials have been reeling for a full year from their first budget defeat ever in 2011, voters okayed — by a vote of 1008 to 618 —the district’s $20.5 million budget, which represents an increase in expenditures of $2563,000 or 1.25 percent. The budget calls for a tax levy increase of $230,000 or 1.3 percent. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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Feds rule on Tahawus RR line, exemption no problem
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By Andy Flynn andy@denpubs.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal Surface Transportation Board Monday, May 14 announced that it has ruled on the Saratoga-North Creek Railway’s case to operate the
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Tahawus Line from North Creek to the former mine in the town of Newcomb. Although the railway’s Dec. 2, 2011 appeal was denied — upholding the director ’s Nov. 23 decision rejecting the railway’s class exemption to operate as a common carrier on the 29.71-mile line — this week’s
ruling also said the Board’s previous concerns had been answered in full. Therefore, the railway has a green light to proceed. “Subsequent filings have provided enough information to resolve the concerns that led to the director ’s decision,” stated the ruling. “Thus the railroad may now file a
new notice of exemption for the operating authority it seeks.” Being a common carrier means the railway would provide service to any shipper upon request, not just NL Industries, the owner of the Tahawus mine. Railway operators want to ship rock from the mine, which had been in full operation CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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