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Pirates 1, Home Team 0. SPACE Article 78 thrown out. Big-buck win for developer, long term loss for town Read (a lot) more... |
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The Stony Point Historic Roundtable is having its next meeting at 1pm on Sunday, March 22, 2009, at the Chapel of St. John the Divine; Episcopal Church Parish House. The guest speaker for the afternoon will be Tom Sullivan, a Stony Point historian, who is a lifelong North Rockland resident and currently a trustee of the Haverstraw Brick Museum. Tom will speak about his childhood memories of stories from three generations of his family who worked at the brickyards. Read more... |
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The Stony Point Action Committee for the Environment held its first meeting
of the Stony Point History Roundtable with a capacity crowd of over 60 people at the Pyngyp Schoohouse Community Center on SUNDAY afternoon, Frb.22. The guest speaker for the afternoon was Thomas F. X. Casey, senior Rockland County historian and President of the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of Rockland County. Read more... |
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The latest "Poop" on the Master Plan: The Supervisor has now farmed out the Master Plan to an outside company; this after his committee spent nearly two years coming up with a scanty page and a half of "suggestions" most people would consider an afternoon's work. Marino recently claimed in a letter to the Journal-News that Stony Point "...is not for sale!" Maybe, maybe not. Read this... |
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Who really runs Stony Point? Even though SPACE and a number of adjacent landowners filed an Article 78 Lawsuit to halt construction of the proposed ShopRite until a better (and legal) plan is devised. developer Pat Magee got they okay from his pals at town hall to start "grading" the land. But, what does "grading" consist of? And why isn 't there a signed map and a building permit? Take a look... |
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SPACE hosts Stony Point history roundtable. We are looking to get information on the history of Stony Point from as many "old-timers" as possible. So many have such great stories, we want to save them for the future. We are planning a series of these history rountables; they are open to all. Come with your stories and photos! Read the flyer... |
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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. The Good is that the Ugly is now gone, and one of the worst polluters in the Hudson Valley has vanished. The Bad is that Stony Point no longer has the tax income from it - Mirant Lovett. Watch our video of the Lovett stack being demolished today at 10:00 am... |
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SPACE joins Hoke Drive residents in filing Article 78. The town board muzzled speakers during its public hearings on the ShopRite application. and largely ignored the written information supplied by SPACE. The only way to seek relief for town residents is to sue the town to compel them to overturn their ill-considered approval of the 93,000 sq. ft. shopping mall. Read more... |
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A REAL Comprehensive Plan? At the September 9 2008 Town Board meeting, SPACE submitted its comments and recommendations to the draft Comprehensive Plan. Supervisor Marino announced he wanted publuc input into the new Comprehensive Plan. Are we finally going in the right direction? Read more: download our comments & ideas... |
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Wrong-Way Master Plan! The town board announced it's new Master Plan at the February meeting. Written by town hall employees, appointees and consultants - and two residents, with the rest of the town excluded. It took two years to come up with about 3 pages of suggestions, including giving unprecedented power to the Building Inspector - a very bad idea! Read the Draft here. |
