The Case of the $4500 Calendar
by Michelle RichardsonWith Election Day over, and the Supervisor's race still uncertain, it's back to work! [The absentee ballot count won't start until November 16th at the earliest.]At the August 2009 Stuyvesant Town Board meeting, the Town Council's Republican members approved a $4750 budget amendment, with $4500 going to cover the Quadricentennial Calendar. With Democratic councilwom

Stuyvesant Supervisors Race - Too Close to Call
See: It's Too Close to Call for Lee Jamison in Stuyvesant Supervisors Race, On Columbia County Democrats

Stuyvesant: Worth Fixing?
Supervisor Bertram's "update" on the Schoolhouse Road Bridge still leaves us with questions.Too expensive to fix?Of course it's expensive. We can't fix it alone, and we're not suggesting that the town do that. We need help. We get help every year for each of our 27 miles of roadway.Assemblyman Tim Gordon offered to help the town apply for stimulus money this spring. Councilwoman Roz Gumaer hand carried an application to Town Hall. Supervisor Bertram declined to complete it. Too expensive not to fix?Farmers need this bridge. Commuters need it. Delivery trucks need it. A

A Hard Look at Assessments in Stuyvesant
This was originally published as a My View piece in the Register Star. "Take a hard look at system before trying to fix it", October 8, 2009by Martin Roby, StuyvesantAfter reading New York State Senator Steve Saland’s recent My View, I am convinced he does not understand the property tax issues or the meaning of the word reform. Raising state taxes and passing it out like candy to pay property taxes is not going to reform anything.Property

Storm Drainage on Oak Leaf Drive
by Lee JamisonAnyone who lives in Stuyvesant's Oak Leaf Drive development, or who has friends who live in Oak Leaf Drive or who, maybe, ever went campaigning door-to-door knows that the most critical issue on homeowners minds is storm water drainage. The houses look comfortable, modest, tidy and pretty but a sharper eye soon sees signs of run-off problems.Some of you think, after years of no formal response from the Town, that there is nothing that can be done. Some have watched repaving by the Highway Department and felt the flooding only got worse. Many have spent thousands of dollars fixing water damage to their homes. Othe