We Can All Learn Something Important from Local Yokels
Dear Editor: I'd like to offer a word or two of encouragement and thanks to a few Philipstowners for their efforts to help improve our environment. We can all learn something important from Local Yokels - that even small modifications in our daily habits can make a difference on a local and even...
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In response to last week's letter "An Observation"
Dear Editor: I came home from vacation in South Carolina on Sunday night, Sept. 2. As I went about my week, on Thursday morning I received a phone call from a good friend asking if I had read the local paper, the Letters to the Editor. I said I had not and she proceeded to read to me this letter ...
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Shortcomings in Zoning Laws Were Catalysts for New Master Plan Movement
To the Editor: In my opinion Tom Rolston is mistaken in believing that we can rely on the "zoning laws, already on the books" to monitor the character of new development in the village. He forgets that it is the shortcomings of these very zoning laws which were primary catalysts for the movement ...
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Those We Elect Should Not Undermine Our Laws
Dear Editor: Philipstown faces real challenges in the years ahead, and never has it been more important for our community to have full-time, hands-on management. Unfortunately, every day it is becoming clearer that our Town Board, under one-party control for the past six years, is failing to offe...
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Philipstown Best Served by 'Sustainable Growth', not 'Smart Growth'
To the Editor: To begin with, in talking about the future of Philipstown, we would be best served by replacing the term "smart growth" with that of "sustainable growth." Both a concept and a HUD program that originated in the 1970s, "smart growth" focused on development in urban centers.
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Not Who Wins but What's Wrong and What's Right
To the Editor: We were shocked and disappointed to read the advertisement placed in your paper last week by the Philipstown Town Board about the on-going dispute with the Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library. The Town Board did not even have the courtesy to present us with their purported compro...
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Town Board Should Recognize That Library is a Wonderful Resource
To the Editor: I would like to express my disappointment with the behavior of the members of the Town Board toward the Butterfield Library. They need to wake up to the fact that it is a gem in our community. My late husband, Phil, and I always treasured the library. It is a warm and welcoming pla...
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Wait for Special Board
Dear Editor: The words in some of the songs at the annual Hoot on the Hudson, held at Little Stony Point on Sept. 9, can be seen as applying to our own wonderful Cold Spring Village. They can even indicate why and how we must preserve it now that we have the means to do so: the Comprehensive Plan...
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