TRR photo by David Hulse Election rhetoric is heating up at this Narrowsburg home and elsewhere in the region.

Special election coverage

The 2004 presidential election has been called “the most consequential election in decades.”

In addition to printing statements from candidates running for local offices, The River Reporter set out this week to provide pre-election coverage of the 2004 presidential vote in our region. Points of focus include issues facing Wayne and Pike Counties in Pennsylvania, the battleground state of the northeast in 2004, the religion factor in our rural counties, the youth vote and the day at the polls on November 2.

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Pike business park is a done deal

By DAVID HULSE

MILFORD, PA—After nearly a decade of financial, zoning, environmental and legal entanglement, the Pike County Commissioners signed documents last week, indemnifying Blooming Grove Township against sewage treatment liability and thus putting the final stamp on development of the county’s business park.

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Opponents press legislature to abandon casions

By DAVID HULSE

MONTICELLO, NY—Anti-casino forces continued their lobbying efforts before the Sullivan County Legislature last week when Casino-Free Sullivan County presented the lawmakers with some 3,000 new petition signatures asking that since a referendum was not possible, the panel void two existing contracts with tribes seeking to develop casinos.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Grunn is first runner-up
• Save the environment, fix the roads
• Liberty takes giant steps forward
• Go pound salt

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