Millennium gas leak frightened local couple

Pipe infrastructure is not access for Marcellus drillers

By TOM KANE

LONG EDDY, NY - In the early evening of March 18, Anna Andersen was chasing her dog who wandered near a gas line access point that stands above the ground. She smelled gas, heard a hissing and then, along with her fiancé Bill Zelop, called 911 and the police.

The gas pipe access, which is located on Hungry Hill Road, stands 75 yards from their home.

Firefighters arrived several minutes later, gas company staff arrived an hour after that and stopped the leak. It was a loose bolt, according to Michael Armiak, director of external affairs for the Millennium Pipeline Company.

Armiak said the company maintains several of these points, which have a twofold purpose, along the 182-mile length of the pipe.

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Barriger wins Round One

Legal battle to recoup risky investments continues

By FRITZ MAYER

WHITE PLAINS, NY—A federal judge has sided with the defendants in one round of an ongoing legal battle involving stockbroker Lloyd Barriger.

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Sullivan kicks off bicentennial season

By FRITZ MAYER

MONTICELLO, NY—Why bother to celebrate the 200th birthday of the county? Sullivan County Historian John Conway quoted another historian in answering the question. He said, “Perhaps the historian Edward Gibbons provided one answer when he wrote, ‘I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.’”

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Other stories in this issue:

• Bald benefactors
• Local elections measure cut from state budget
• Gas at a glance
• Krieger signs gas lease
• Open space meeting held
• DEP gas moves called irresponsible, illegal

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