Articles from The New Franklin Register
The proposed 2013 budget for the Town of Franklin is $1.83 million. Subtracting the $0.29 million in expected revenues and a balance from last year of $0.26 million, the amount to be raised through property taxes is to be $1.27 million. Compared to last year, this will result in an increase in property taxes of […]
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The reconstruction of the intersection of Routes 28 and 357 in North Franklin is scheduled for 2015 with a budget of $850,000. This is a year later and $50,000 more than was projected a year ago. NYSDOT has not yet made the choice between a roundabout and a T-intersection. Sketches of the two alternatives are
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Oil & Gas Pollution in New York State Part I Current Regulation: Eventually the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will release the final Supplemental GEIS, which will include guidelines for the safe horizontal drilling and fracturing of black shales. If and when drilling and fracking come to Franklin, will the DEC assure that it is
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The new Flood Insurance Rate Maps for Franklin show the reach of the Special Flood Hazard Zone (a.k.a flood plain) according to the Flood Damage Prevention Law, passed at the April Town Board meeting as Local Law 2012-1. Our one flood plain extends from the East Sidney Reservoir up the Ouleout Creek to just above
In the last few months, everything has changed – but in reality, nothing has changed. What has changed? The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company seems to have dropped its Northeast Extension Project, after the partnership of Williams and Cabot announced their Constitution Pipeline. Instead of moving the gas from the Tennessee #300 pipeline, the gas will
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A primer for getting the most you can from eminent domain The Constitution Pipeline repeats the Marcy South power line experience in that hundreds of land owners in Delaware County will lose control of parts of their property for inadequate compensation — even though the project is of little benefit to residents. Unwilling owners will
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The proposed Constitution Pipeline would carry gas from the Marcellus gas fields of Pennsylvania to the intersection of the Tennessee #200 and the Iroquois pipelines in the Town of Wright, Schoharie County, NY. For more information in this issue of The New Franklin Register, see: Constitutional Confiscation? Déjà Vu All Over Again
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Nature has a way of always surprising us, and this year is no exception. We had a very warm winter with little snow. Snow is the best winter mulch there is, and if it arrives and stays on the ground throughout the cold months, it melts slowly into ground that never quite freezes. Excellent for
…or live to regret it? A short while ago, I drove down Route 17 to Middletown, NY, in order to meet my daughter at the train station there. Route 17 is being “upgraded” to Interstate 86 at a cost of who knows how many gazillions of taxpayer dollars. According to the New York State DOT
Plans for a wind farm in west Franklin are progressing, according to project manager Jeffrey Nemeth. In 2009 and 2010, Horizon Wind Energy erected two 198 foot meteoro- logical towers on properties off Russell Road and Herklotz Road. (Horizon is a wholly owned subsidiary of EDP Re- newables Company, headquartered in Spain.) Data from these
Residents of the hamlet of Treadwell have reached agreement with the Delhi Board of Education to transfer to the Town of Franklin the fields, playground, and tennis courts on the flood plain behind the new school building. These fifteen-plus acres would come with $920,000 to be put in trust for related expenses. The school property
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The Northeast Exchange Project (almost half again the size of the Millennium Pipeline) would run through Franklin itself and neighboring towns — if Route B is approved. The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company wants to build this line between two of its existing west-to-east natural gas pipelines: the Tennessee Pipeline #300 in Pennsylvania south of the
