TRR photo by Fritz Mayer Congressman Maurice Hinchey, right, holds a news conference in Wurtsboro, NY with relatives of Carmelo Rodriguez, who died of skin cancer after receiving substandard healthcare from the military.

Wurtsboro family seeks to sue military

New Hinchey bill would make it possible

By FRITZ MAYER

WURTSBORO, NY—If the average citizen receives inadequate medical care that results in death, the citizen’s family has the right to sue the hospital or healthcare providers who caused the damage. That’s not the case for soldiers who receive inadequate care from the military, as the story of the late Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez shows.

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Taxing times for towns

Issues drive desperate measures

By SANDY LONG

ELDRED AND GLEN SPEY, NY—More than 80 mostly unhappy residents of the Town of Highland crammed into town hall on May 15 after receiving their tax assessments recently. One man faces a 43 percent increase. Another complained that he is forced to fight his assessment every year.

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Co-op to dairy farmers: ‘Go out of business if need be’

By TOM KANE

WAYNE COUNTY, PA - Dairyman Joe Davitt was so shocked he was speechless. Fellow dairyman Brian Smith’s reaction was to laugh.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Bagging the better way
• Correction
• Damascus students supervisors for a day
• Regulating gas-drilling
• Gas leases landing in Highland; town to step away from Greenway
• What’s in a name?
• Award-winning project vandalized