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Driver killed in fiery crash
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Olsson heads to Championships One of the best swimmers in the Northeast PAGE B1
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CATSKILL — A Schenectady man was killed Sunday morning when the tractor-trailer he was driving collided with a parked tractor-trailer and burst into flames on the New York State Thruway near Catskill, according to Thruway State Police. Thruway State Police confirmed Monday afternoon that Irinel Mladin-Kennedy, 51, was killed in the crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Greene County Coroner Richard Vigilo. The driver of the parked
tractor-trailer was taken to the hospital for treatment, state police said. Michael E. Wolf, 63, of Red Lion, was transported to Albany Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries, state police Public Information Officer Tara McCormick said. Mladin-Kennedy was traveling north on the Thruway in Catskill when he rear-ended Wolf’s tractortrailer, which was parked on the shoulder at 5:38 a.m., McCormick said. “They went 100 feet down the shoulder and both caught on fire,” McCormick said.
Mladin-Kennedy’s tractor-trailer was carrying mail and Wolf was transporting coffee in his vehicle. The mail truck caught fire first and the impact caused the engine to burst into flame, Catskill Fire Chief Patrick McCulloch said. Both northbound lanes were closed until the accident was cleared at 1:07 p.m., McCormick said. It is unclear what caused MladinKennedy to veer off the road, McCormick said. “We may never know why,” she said. Due to the condition of the vehicle,
investigators may not be able to recover a cell phone to determine if texting was a factor, she said. “They will be reviewing statements from witnesses to see if there were patterns with his driving,” she said. An autopsy was performed by forensic pathologist Dr. Jeffrey Hubbard at 10 a.m. Monday at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, Vigilo said. Toxicology results will be received in approximately two weeks, he said. State police, Catskill Ambulance and the Catskill and Kiskatom fire departments responded.
State budget deal sealed but some call it flawed
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Milk for school lunches Delgado cosponsors bill to help schools buy milk PAGE A3
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announces an agreement on the fiscal year 2020 budget during a news conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol.
By Melanie Lekocevic
Dems ready subpoenas
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Democrats want to see the full Mueller report PAGE A5
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday evening that a deal has been reached to pass the 2019-20 state budget. “This is probably the broadest, most sweeping state plan that we have done,” Cuomo said in a press conference Sunday. “There are a number of national firsts and it really grapples with the tough issues that
have been facing this state for a long time.” The 2019-20 state budget is a $175 billion spending plan that includes a $1 billion hike in school aid, criminal justice reform, the Green New Deal that seeks to make the state 100 percent carbon free by 2040 and an additional $500 million in funding for the Environmental Protection Fund, among other provisions. The budget also includes congestion pricing for
drivers entering sections of Manhattan and a plastic bag ban that will prohibit the use of most single-use plastic grocery bags beginning in 2020. Allyson Martino, of Ghent, said congestion pricing could negatively impact upstate businesses. “Congestion pricing probably won’t affect me but I am against it,” Martino said. “It is going to affect a See BUDGET A8
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Parking woes beset ‘2nd business district’ By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Village officials are wrestling with an age-old dilemma: giving businesses on West Bridge Street, known by some as “Catskill’s second business district,” and the residents around them adequate parking. With businesses on the rise in the village and limited street parking occupied by employees and tenants, the board of trustees needs to explore other options, Village President Vincent Seeley said. The board has not decided on what path to take, Seeley said, but the issue is on its radar. “We will be expanding our focus over the next year on the corridor [West Bridge Street] between our historic
district and our box stores,” Seeley said Monday. Seeley asked the planning board to
to not continue to develop [because of parking restraints.]” A new antique shop, called Acquired
“We will be expanding our focus over the next year on the corridor [West Bridge Street] between our historic district and our box stores. The success of the businesses over there is great. We don’t want to not continue to develop [because of parking restraints.]” — VILLAGE PRESIDENT VINCENT SEELEY review the layout of the area and brainstorm ways to mitigate the issue. “The success of the businesses over there is great,” he said. “We don’t want
Taste, recently opened and three new businesses, including a brewery and two art-related businesses are being reviewed by the planning board,
Seeley noted. The board is considering a couple of options to address parking, Seeley said. “One option is to work with business owners to have their employees park away from the street and we will shuffle them back and forth,” Seeley said. An alternative is to reconfigure the parking altogether, Seeley said, adding that the village’s ability to do so will be limited because the road is also a state highway. “We will also be looking at the possibility of having parking meters,” Seeley said. “We’re at the beginning of figuring out what to do there.” Juice Branch owner Natasha Law is See PARKING A8