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Board Highlights January 9, 2024

Despite a recent bout with the flu, Mayor Sharon Torres soldiered through the five+ hours of meetings but lost her voice at the start of...

Dec 13, 2023

Public Meeting on Hunter Lot Proposals Scheduled

By Kathy Savolt - At the end of a back and forth discussion among members of the Board of Trustees (BOT), they agreed to hold the...

Dec 13, 2023

Tenant Protection: Rent Registration

By Kathy Savolt - During the 12/11 work session of the Board of Trustees (BOT) Trustee Yizar-Reid described an initiative introduced in...

Dec 13, 2023

New Leaf Blower Law Needs a Re-look - Again

By Kathy Savolt - In October, the Board of Trustees (BOT) passed a new law banning gas-powered leaf blowers. See previous article HERE. ...

Dec 13, 2023

Board Highlights – December 11, 2023

By Kathy Savolt - Police Department Accreditation Police Chief Sandra DiRuzza announced that the Department is officially accredited...

Dec 6, 2023

Hampshire Update: “It’s Not My Job...”

By Kathy Savolt - It wasn’t difficult to hear a few exchanges coming from the special Executive Session of the Board of Trustees (BOT) on...

Dec 6, 2023

Village Organizational Meeting

By Cindy Goldstein - Trustee Nora Lucas & Mayor Sharon Torres On Monday evening it was a standing room crowd only in the courtroom to...

Nov 29, 2023

Board Highlights November 27, 2023

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training For All The BOT expanded diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training to all volunteers who...

Nov 29, 2023

Flood News Update

By Kathy Savolt and Cindy Goldstein - Waverly Avenue Bridge Update The Waverly Avenue Bridge project received the go-ahead with the Town...

Nov 29, 2023

New Village Hall – a Future Civic Center

By Kathy Savolt - At the November 27th work session, Gregg DeAngelis and Brian Burke, architects with EnviroSpace Architecture, presented...

Nov 22, 2023

Affordable Housing Process and the Hunter Tier

By Kathy Savolt - Bringing any housing development to fruition is a complicated process. Having a governmental body involved multiplies...

Nov 22, 2023

Westhab/WHA Hunter Lot Proposal

By Cindy Goldstein - At a Board of Trustees (BOT) work session on November 15, one of the two responders to the Village’s Request for...

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