So, money is being raised for a new library. When I see a beautiful hayfield turned into houses, it makes me want to cry. There's not a Holstein left in town. Meanwhile, some residents are fighting with the town highway superintendent over whether the town's rural roads should be widened and straightened or whether they should be left alone. It's a stalemate.
More people means more dogs and more complaints about stray, barking and biting canine pets.
So Walls proposed a kennel law to cope with the increasing number of dog problems a proposal that drew vociferous crowds to Town Hall. Residents are also bitter about the town ZBA approving a variance for a proposed Stewart's convenience store in the small hamlet, which does not have any chain or convenience stores. Opponents say the hamlet's homespun feel would be ruined by a chain store such as Stewart's. We're the next Rockland County and Monroe. Besides Stewart's, a proposed inn with related development near the Shawangunk Kill at the Tuthilltown Grist Mill site, south of Route 44-55, has upset residents.