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Orangetown: Stop high-pressure home-sale tactics

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Orangetown Supervisor Chris Day and Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee ask the state to create a cease and desist zone against aggressive solicitors at Orangetown Town Hall on Oct. 25, 2018. Carucha L. Meuse, cmeuse@lohud.com

Two years after shutting down aggressive door-to-door real estate solicitations, Orangetown wants to do the same thing to what officials call aggressive mailings pressuring residents to sell their homes.

Supervisor Chris Day was joined at Town Hall on Thursday by state Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, whose 97th District includes Orangetown, to discuss the problem and what they want to do about it.

Here’s some takeaways from their news conference: [Read more…]

Gubernatorial Candidate Stephanie Miner–Press Release: All schools should meet basic Education Requirements

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Gubernatorial Candidate for Gov Stephanie Miner

Stephanie Miner Former Mayor of Syracuse

The Stephanie Miner for Governor Meet and Greet is this Wednesday Oct. 17th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Suffern in the Upper Hudson Ballroom. The Hotel is just off the NYS Thruway at Exit 14. The address is 3 Executive Blvd Suffern, NY 10901.

PRESS RELEASE: Stephanie Miner

ALL SCHOOLS SHOULD MEET BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

October 15, 2018 1:00 PM

Syracuse, N.Y., October 15, 2018 – State education law requires that private schools provide a “substantially equivalent” education to that of public schools. However, in Andrew Cuomo’s New York, certain politically-connected schools have been given a pass.

“School children shouldn’t be political pawns,” said Miner. “All schools should be required to meet basic standards. Period.”  [Read more…]

Legal challenge of Ramapo Bluefield housing plan OK’d in bid to preserve neighborhoods

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Photo of Micheal Miller of CUPON

Micheal Miller of CUPON Photo by Peter Carr/The Journal News

The larger issue behind the lawsuit remains Ramapo’s failure to maintain single-family housing, say critics of the expansion plan.

“A lawsuit seeking to void a town agency’s zoning variance to allow high-density housing off Union Road has passed muster with a judge.

Acting Supreme Court Judge Sherri Eisenpress rejected the developer’s attempt to derail the lawsuit filed by citizen’s group CUPON-Hillcrest and Sharon Doucette, whose property shares a narrow driveway with the project, called the Bluefield Extension.

The property is targeted for development of 15 to 20 units on approximately one acre.  It sits across from the massive Bluefield complex of multiple family townhouses. [Read more…]

Striker Property sale faces opposition from Skyview Acres neighbors

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The Striker property, left, is 75 acres off Route 45 that the Town of Ramapo is looking to sell for use as a campus for yeshivas Sept. 20, 2018. Peter Carr/The Journal News

When the town bought the nearly 75-acre Striker Property in 2009, Paul Nagin and his Skyview Acres neighbors were led to believe the land would forever be preserved from development.

Times have changed and they are learning the commitment may not be forever.

The deal’s mastermind, then-Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, sits in federal prison. The town faces a potential budget deficit topping $8 million and are looking to sell properties bought for supposed preservation during St. Lawrence’s tenure. [Read more…]