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TRR photo by Fritz Mayer Attorney James Walsh, left, with legislator Dave Sager, at the Sullivan County Board of Elections office on October 22.

New voters challenged

Board of health determination cited

By FRITZ MAYER

MONTICELLO, NY—Lawmaker David Sager signed 152 separate challenges on October 22 against newly registered voters in the Town of Bethel. Now, county attorney Max Yasgur must advise the commissioners of the board of elections as to whether they should side with the challenged voters or with Sager’s group Voters for Election Integrity (VEI.) No matter what advice Yasgur gives and which decision the commissioners make, a lawsuit either way is a real possibility.

At a press conference at the government center before Sager filed the challenges, he explained a bit about the group’s strategy. All of the voter registrations that were challenged used addresses that come from bungalow colonies with the exception of six, whose addresses could not be verified.

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Narrowsburg school deliberations

Should Delaware Valley be leased to gas drillers?

By FRITZ MAYER

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—The members of the Sullivan West Central School District Facilities Needs Committee have been gathering information for the past 18 months to help them decide what to do with the district’s two mothballed schools. At a meeting at the elementary school in Jeffersonville on October 27, they agreed to recommend to the full school district board that it move forward with three actions.

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Obama sues big milk producers

Local dairy farmers applaud anti-trust lawsuit

By TOM KANE

WASHINGTON, DC—Local dairy farmers are cheering for the action taken by the Obama administration to move ahead on a long-standing antitrust lawsuit against several major milk processors.

A class action, antitrust lawsuit was filed on October 8 on behalf of Northeast dairy farmers against the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Dean Foods Company in U.S. District Court in Burlington, VT.

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Other stories in this issue:

• Residents participate in international 350 event
• The dark side of chocolate
• Damascus to hold public hearings
• Town of Delaware to cut property tax
• DHC receives environmental award
• Gas execs ready to disclose
• Gas at a glance
• Hinchey supports medical marijuana
• Judge says no to Pike BOE
• A Mini E vacation
• PFWCL: a CLI worth knowing about
• Historic buildings to harvest solar
• Wayne eyes gas task force

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