TRR photo by Charlie Buterbaugh Glenn Darling, right, testifies July 15 before Michael Wittenberg. Darling revealed that employees regularly borrowed equipment from the Department of Public Works.

Borrowing was standard practice at DPW

By CHARLIE BUTERBAUGH

MONTICELLO, NY—Sullivan County Attorney Sam Yasgur bears the burden of proving the truth of charges filed by the county against suspended Deputy Department of Public Works (DPW) Commissioner Phillip Nicoletti, which include allegations that Nicoletti bought equipment for his own personal use with county purchase order forms and regularly ordered DPW mechanics to do work for him with county equipment on county time.

Yasgur’s main witness so far in the disciplinary hearing, which continued Friday, July 15 at the county courthouse, has been former DPW Commissioner Peter Lilholt, who retired suddenly when the county’s investigation was made public in late February.

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Meeting growth in Pike County

By TOM KANE

MILFORD, PA—The Pike County Commissioners created a new position, Director of the Pike County Office of Community Planning, at its meeting on July 13 and named Sally Corrigan to fill it. The administrative position will have a salary of $41,000 a year.

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Highway department faces deficit

Town board considers bond, tax hike as measures

By CHARLIE BUTERBAUGH

BETHEL, NY—The Town of Bethel Highway Department is in the red, and officials met last week to explore borrowing as a means of making up a $222,0000 deficit.

But that’s just the beginning of Bethel’s highway problem.

Overspending has combined with the costs of fuel, flood damage and road maintenance to leave the highway fund stuck in a fiscal pothole that keeps cracking.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Youth center thanks its community and its senator
• Lines drawn in Tusten
• Semantics define zoning in Delaware
• Yasgur Road denied as Woodstock reunion site
• Damascus Township labors over roads
• Shohola favors bridge replacement
• Corrections
• Highland defeats gun club law

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