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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022

Guns for legislators proposed at meeting By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

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Greene County Legislator Michael Bulich being sworn in for his second term during the legislature’s Jan. 3 meeting.

CATSKILL — Greene County Legislator Michael Bulich proposed an amendment Tuesday that would allow county lawmakers to carry firearms at meetings. Bulich, R-Catskill, proposed the measure during a discussion Tuesday night at the Legislature meeting on a resolution that would specify that only police

be allowed to carry firearms into Greene County office buildings. The original resolution states that only members of the New York State Police, Greene County Sheriff’s Office or any village or town police department in Greene be allowed to carry firearms, concealed or otherwise, onto county property. While debating the resolution at the Legislature’s Government Operations

Committee meeting Tuesday, Bulich contended that an exception should be made for elected officials. “I think there should be an amendment to this resolution that allows elected officials who are licensed to carry to do so if they so choose in this building,” Bulich said during the meeting. “We do come See GUNS A2

County backs NYC land acquisition limits By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The Greene County Legislature is backing recommendations that would see New York City reduce its future purchase of land in the upstate watershed region. A report prepared in August of 2020 by a National Academies Expert Panel recommended that expenditures in the city’s land acquisition program be reduced to fund other programs that will lead to more direct improvements in New York City’s water quality. In the Greene County resolution, the board asks that the city develop a new long-term land acquisition plan, which would cover 2022 and 2023 and consider the findings of the 2020 report. The county is asking that New York City refrain from entering into new contracts under the land acquisition plan in Greene County from now through the completion of the permitting process. The resolution was passed unanimously during the legislature’s Government Operations committee meeting Tuesday night. If passed by the full Legislature, the resolution will be sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, state Sen. Mike Martucci, R-Middletown, and Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-Schoharie, among other state officials. Delaware County and the Coalition of Watershed Towns have also passed resolutions supporting the report’s recommendations. See LAND A2

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Windham Town Supervisor Thomas Hoyt is in favor of a Greene County Legislature resolution backing reduced New York City watershed land purchases.

DEC: Rangers assist first injured hiker of 2022 By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

HUNTER — A Massachusetts man was injured when he slipped and fell on ice while hiking at Kaaterskill Falls, Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman Jeff Wernick said Wednesday. The name of the 67-year old hiker, who is from Wellesley, was not released by officials. At about 2:30 p.m., DEC

received a call that the man injured his knee and could not walk, Wernick said. Forest Rangers Anastasia Allwine and Robert Dawson responded and hiked to the area and located the injured man. The rangers provided medical care and secured the man in a rescue stretcher to carry him up the ice-covered trail, Wernick said. The injured hiker was then transferred to a ranger truck

and was driven to the Laurel House Trailhead. The man declined further medical care, Wernick said The rescue was completed by 4:36 p.m. This was the first reported rescue by forest rangers in Greene County in 2022. More than 50 hikers were rescued by forest rangers last year, over the course of 25 hiking incidents, after they became lost or injured in the town of Hunter.

The two busiest months for rangers in 2021 were August and October, with numerous rescues each month. Two hikers died in 2021 on Greene County trails. On May 1, police located the body of a 36-year-old man at Kaaterskill Falls, and on March 14, a 62-year-old man died while hiking on the Becker Trail. If a person needs a Forest See HIKER A2

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A frozen Kaaterskill Falls in the winter.

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