General News: Notes from the Cornwall Town Board
February 18, 2011
The town of Cornwall has appointed Simon Gruber to represent it at the newly-formed Moodna Creek Watershed Intermunicipal Council. The Orange County Water Authority is overseeing the council, which is designed to have representatives of 14 municipalities that are within the creek’s watershed. Gruber is an environmental consultant who also serves as the chair of the Cornwall-on-Hudson Riverfront Revitalization Committee.
The council will likely address flooding, stormwater management and erosion control, surface and groundwater quality, water quantity, drought management, and public access to water bodies.
The Moodna is 15.5 miles long and snakes a long a twisted path from its source just west of Washingtonville to its estuary into the Hudson River near the border of New Windsor and Cornwall-on-Hudson.
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The Cornwall town board is urging state lawmakers to take steps to allow public notices to be distributed via online publications. The board passed a resolution on Monday that noted that newspaper readership is falling while New Yorkers are increasing turning to alternative sources for news and information, such as the internet and free community newspapers.
The state legislature would have to amend the law governing the publication of legal notices. The goal of the change is to promote an informed and engaged electorate, which, the resolution says, is important to the governing process.
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