SAUGERTIES, N.Y. One day after a state Comptroller’s report singling out the village as the only one in the state under significant fiscal stress, village Mayor Bill Murphy said that the village has been financially sound enough that it hasn’t had to raise taxes in 10 years. Murphy noted the village lowered its tax […]
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. – Mayor Bill Murphy considers community gatherings in 2023 to have demonstrated local determination to make the most out of any circumstances dealt by nature, and learn from those events to make future plans even more festive. The observation was made during an interview on Monday, with Murphy noting that the year started […]
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. – A pair of businessmen who had considered opening a retail cannabis shop in the village said that state rules have gotten in the way of their application. The red tape of operating a facility became apparent as Gerard Price and Manjinder Sekhon realized it was unlikely they would meet a Monday deadline to […]
RED HOOK, N.Y. – Archtop Fiber has begun work in the town as part of an effort to get super-fast internet service to the community by the end of 2024. “We are deploying our field crews…with people on the streets surveying, measuring and marking,” Chief Development Officer Shawn Beqaj said last week following a Village […]
TOWN OF SAUGERTIES, N.Y. Long-time special projects coordinator Alex Wade was remembered as the driving force behind turning village history into an iconic symbol with the restoration of the 1869 lighthouse, developing a site to preserve treasured documents, and giving the business district its quaint streetscape motif. Wade, who died on Nov. 28, was […]