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General News: No Curfew in Cornwall This Halloween
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| Halloween Night |
October 10, 2007
The Cornwall town board failed to act on police chief Todd Hazard’s request to enact a curfew on the streets of Cornwall this Halloween.
By a margin of 3 to 2 on Tuesday evening, the board voted against a resolution that would have put a curfew in place on October 30 and 31.
Town supervisor Dick Randazzo said he was opposed to a curfew, notng he did not think there have been problems in the past serious enough to require getting young people off the streets after 9 p.m. “If, in the future there are problems, then we could take action,” Randazzo told his fellow board members.
Last week, Chief Hazard told the board that while Cornwall youth may not cause problems, juveniles from neighboring communities that did have a curfew could come to Cornwall and raise havoc.
Council member Randy Clark spoke in favor of a curfew, citing a recent spate of graffiti as evidence of bad behavior. “I would like to have it so we are not the only community in the area that doesn’t have it,” he said.
In recent years, the mayor of the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson has declared an emergency curfew on Halloween. Village police chief Charles Williams says that he doesn’t know if current mayor Joseph Gross will do the same.
Town board members Kerry McGuiness and Mary Beth Krafft Greene both opposed the curfew, saying that Cornwall kids have done nothing to warrant it. “Why should we come down on them if they are cooperating and doing the right thing?” asked councilwoman Krafft Greene.
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I think it is absolutely absurd that the Town Board would vote against the Police Chief's request for a curfew to keep our community free from unruly teens and young adults, vandalizing & stealing from our neighborhoods. It is the Chief of Police's responsibility to insure the community's safety and well being and he should receive total support by the people who appointed him. I am not saying that all youths or Cornwall youths are vandals, but if we don't have a curfew it opens the door to more youths in the area therefore more room for trouble. A last note, this year on Halloween night I was the victim of a larceny at my residence.
I am disappointed in the decision that was made.
posted by Vigs on 10/31/07 at 7:13 PM
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