POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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November 24th 2024 Edition
"ON THE EXCLUSIVITY OF CIVILITY IN POESTENKILL - CIVILITY FOR SOME, BUT NOT FOR ALL!"
Yes, people, in Poestenkill, while civility (formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech, as in "In Poestenkill, it is mandatory to treat the Poestenkill Town Board with civility and respect") is due to some, that according to their rank and social station, as we all saw on October 10, 2024 at the Town of Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY when Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE # #070866, who is also Poestenkill's Grand Inquisitor and Chief Censor, as well as High Commissioner of Poestenkill's Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Town of Poestenkill, and in that capacity, the State Security Administrator for Poestenkill, as well as the Keeper/Protector of Public Morals in Poestenkill, by virtue of the fact that High Commissioner Burzesi as a licensed engineer is charged by law with safeguarding life, health and property in Poestenkill, and thus is the most qualified among us to be the chief of the Poestenkill Security apparatus to protect the moral fiber of Poestenkill from harm by people like Patrick Wing, who thinks we all have some kind of freedom to think our own thoughts with impunity, as opposed to thinking what we are told to think by Poestenkill town government, went off on Poestenkill town resident Patrick Wing for daring to exercise his Constitutional rights to engage in protected speech without first getting express permission from the Poestenkill Ministry of State Security to actually engage in Constitutionally protected speech, civility in Poestenkill is a one-way street that only flows upwards from the bottom, as in Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing must be civil to Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, never from the top down, as in Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi can treat Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing with utter contempt, because to do otherwise would be unseemly for our social and political superiors such as councilman Burzesi to be treating mere commoners and those of low social status like Patrick Wing with any civility whatsoever, which would be quite demeaning of them, to have to treat their inferiors as equals.
Which takes us back in time to the official record of the January 11, 2024 Poestenkill Town Board meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrwCwmFw7U @ 1:09, where we had Poestenkill Gauleiter Tom Russell barking at us in his stentorian voice, as follows, to wit:
RUSSELL: We're going to be civil, I ask you to be civil, if anyone cares to speak, I ask that you come to the podium, we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes so as to allow for other people to get their proper time too, but we will run this in a civil, organized manner and we're all from Poestenkill and trying to do for the betterment of the town and I thank you very much again for coming out.
end quote
In light of the fact that Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi is under no obligation whatsoever to treat Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing in a civil manner, i.e., with formal politeness and courtesy in behavior and speech, for the betterment of the town, as opposed to undisguised contempt, what can we then say about Gauleiter Russell's comment that he and the town board would "run this (the town meeting) in a civil, organized manner?"
Normally, anywhere other than Poestenkill, where things are made up as we go, and where up is really down and a step back is really moving forward, the phrase "civil, organized manner" would imply "arranged in a systematic way that is cultured and polite."
Not so in Poestenkill, however.
In Poestenkill, the comment that the Gauleiter and town board would "run this (the town meeting) in a civil, organized manner" was merely a euphemism (a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing) for stripping Poestenkill Patrick Wing of his Constitutional right in Poestenkill to engage in political speech without first securing the necessary approvals and permits to do so from Poestenkill beforehand, because if allowed to speak, Patrick Wing, who epitomizes those few in Poestenkill with the courage to speak out and to voice diverging opinions, would try to promote alternate thinking with his Poestenkill Spotlight, and that would be fatal to the maintenance of equilibrium in Poestenkill, which equilibrium requires GROUP THINK to be successful, all minds in Poestenkill in sync and lock-step with the master mind of Poestenkill Gauleiter Tom Russell, and so his speech must be mercilessly stamped out, wherever it may rear its ugly head in whatever form here in Poestenkill.
THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
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November 26th 2024 Edition
"RESPECT ALSO A ONE-WAY STREET IN POESTENKILL!"
Going back to the official record of the February 8, 2024 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting @ 0.52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1QxfIsPX0 , we again had Democrat Gauleiter of Poestenkill Tom Russell barking at us in his stentorian voice of command, as if we were serfs and he was our liege lord to whom we owed fealty, as follows, to wit:
RUSSELL: Public comment period, I only ask that everyone stand at this, the podium, and be respectful and address your comments to the front and not to anyone else in the room. Any comments are through the board and I just ask that you have consideration for everyone else here and that you limit your comments to a maximum of two minutes.
end quote
Now, in our language, the language I began learning as a member of the first kindergarten in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School, the word respectful in defined as "feeling or showing deference and respect," and in the context in which the Gauleiter uttered those words as commands to we, the residents of the Town of Poestenkill who pay the Gauleiter's salary and to whom the Gauleiter is responsible for his actions as a public official in Poestenkill, it seems the Gauleiter believes in his mind that we in Poestenkill are supposed to show deference (the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors; deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of respect or reverence) to him as the Best and Brightest in Poestenkill, which is why we, in his mind, are so blessed to have him as our Gauleiter, which would have the definition of respect then as meaning "a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements."
But why should we in Poestenkill have a feeling of deep admiration for Tom Russell elicited by his abilities, qualities, or achievements when this editorialist is not aware that Tom Russell is possessed of any abilities, qualities, or achievements worthy of having admiration, as opposed to contempt for, especially in light of how he sat there silent on October 10, 2024 at the Town of Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY when Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE # #070866, the Captain General of the Militia and Land Forces of the Grand Duchy of Poestenkill also known as the Free and Independent Republic of Poestenkill, the only Grand Duchy there is within the continental boundaries of the United States of America, and Admiral of the Naval Forces of Poestenkill at home and abroad, who is also Poestenkill's Grand Inquisitor and Chief Censor, as well as High Commissioner of Poestenkill's Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Town of Poestenkill, and in that capacity, the State Security Administrator for Poestenkill, as well as the Keeper/Protector of Public Morals in Poestenkill, by virtue of the fact that High Commissioner Burzesi as a licensed engineer is charged by law with safeguarding life, health and property in Poestenkill, and thus is the most qualified among us to be the chief of the Poestenkill Security apparatus to protect the moral fiber of Poestenkill from harm by people like Patrick Wing, was going off on said Patrick Wing for abusing his First Amendment rights to speech in Poestenkill by actually using his First Amendment right to engage in actual speech in Poestenkill, instead of keeping the right to speech purely hypothetical?
Which brings us to the second definition of "respect," as follows: due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others, as in "the Poestenkill Town Board's lack of respect for the Constitutional rights of Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing!"
More like sheer and utter contempt for those rights as this long-term resident of Poestenkill sees it, who can actually remember back to a time in Poestenkill when it was safe, an idyllic place for a child like myself to grow up in, not a place to flee as is the case now, with Poestenkill's population declining as a result of the incompetent clown-show excuse for a local government we are saddled with in this town today, with a responsible town government back then that did respect the rights of others, since back then, it knew it answered to and was responsible to those same town residents, and how far we have sunk since then, as witnessed by Frank Burzesi's scurrilous (making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation, as in "Frank Burzesi's scurrilous attack on Patrick Wing's integrity") calumniation (to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about) of Patrick Wing while Tom Russell and the rest of Poestenkill's Best and Brightest all sat silent at the head table, and by their silence, gave consent to Frank Burzesi's actions.
And make no mistake, people, when the Poestenkill town board has such sheer and utter contempt for the Constitutional rights of one of us, they have sheer and utter contempt for the Constitutional rights of all of us.
Which makes them worthy of our contempt in return!
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November 26th 2024 Edition
"RESPECT ALSO A ONE-WAY STREET IN POESTENKILL!"
Going back to the official record of the February 8, 2024 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting @ 0.52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1QxfIsPX0 , we again had Democrat Gauleiter of Poestenkill Tom Russell barking at us in his stentorian voice of command, as if we were serfs and he was our liege lord to whom we owed fealty, as follows, to wit:
RUSSELL: Public comment period, I only ask that everyone stand at this, the podium, and be respectful and address your comments to the front and not to anyone else in the room. Any comments are through the board and I just ask that you have consideration for everyone else here and that you limit your comments to a maximum of two minutes.
end quote
Now, in our language, the language I began learning as a member of the first kindergarten in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School, the word respectful in defined as "feeling or showing deference and respect," and in the context in which the Gauleiter uttered those words as commands to we, the residents of the Town of Poestenkill who pay the Gauleiter's salary and to whom the Gauleiter is responsible for his actions as a public official in Poestenkill, it seems the Gauleiter believes in his mind that we in Poestenkill are supposed to show deference (the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors; deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of respect or reverence) to him as the Best and Brightest in Poestenkill, which is why we, in his mind, are so blessed to have him as our Gauleiter, which would have the definition of respect then as meaning "a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements."
But why should we in Poestenkill have a feeling of deep admiration for Tom Russell elicited by his abilities, qualities, or achievements when this editorialist is not aware that Tom Russell is possessed of any abilities, qualities, or achievements worthy of having admiration, as opposed to contempt for, especially in light of how he sat there silent on October 10, 2024 at the Town of Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY when Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE # #070866, the Captain General of the Militia and Land Forces of the Grand Duchy of Poestenkill also known as the Free and Independent Republic of Poestenkill, the only Grand Duchy there is within the continental boundaries of the United States of America, and Admiral of the Naval Forces of Poestenkill at home and abroad, who is also Poestenkill's Grand Inquisitor and Chief Censor, as well as High Commissioner of Poestenkill's Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Town of Poestenkill, and in that capacity, the State Security Administrator for Poestenkill, as well as the Keeper/Protector of Public Morals in Poestenkill, by virtue of the fact that High Commissioner Burzesi as a licensed engineer is charged by law with safeguarding life, health and property in Poestenkill, and thus is the most qualified among us to be the chief of the Poestenkill Security apparatus to protect the moral fiber of Poestenkill from harm by people like Patrick Wing, was going off on said Patrick Wing for abusing his First Amendment rights to speech in Poestenkill by actually using his First Amendment right to engage in actual speech in Poestenkill, instead of keeping the right to speech purely hypothetical?
Which brings us to the second definition of "respect," as follows: due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others, as in "the Poestenkill Town Board's lack of respect for the Constitutional rights of Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing!"
More like sheer and utter contempt for those rights as this long-term resident of Poestenkill sees it, who can actually remember back to a time in Poestenkill when it was safe, an idyllic place for a child like myself to grow up in, not a place to flee as is the case now, with Poestenkill's population declining as a result of the incompetent clown-show excuse for a local government we are saddled with in this town today, with a responsible town government back then that did respect the rights of others, since back then, it knew it answered to and was responsible to those same town residents, and how far we have sunk since then, as witnessed by Frank Burzesi's scurrilous (making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation, as in "Frank Burzesi's scurrilous attack on Patrick Wing's integrity") calumniation (to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about) of Patrick Wing while Tom Russell and the rest of Poestenkill's Best and Brightest all sat silent at the head table, and by their silence, gave consent to Frank Burzesi's actions.
And make no mistake, people, when the Poestenkill town board has such sheer and utter contempt for the Constitutional rights of one of us, they have sheer and utter contempt for the Constitutional rights of all of us.
Which makes them worthy of our contempt in return!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
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November 27th 2024 Edition
"ON THE WORSHIP OF STUPIDITY AND VINCIBLE IGNORANCE IN POESTENKILL!"
When I was young, this being right after the close of WWII, Poestenkill then was a much different place than it has become today.
Back then, Poestenkill was truly a community, a safe place where there was a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
I was a member of the first kindergarten class in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School, and as such, I was taught by one of the strong women who held Poestenkill together during WWII that I was a member of that community, and my purpose in being in school was to learn about that community, its history, its people, and learn about myself, what my strengths and skills were, so I could find my proper place in support of that community, whatever those strengths and skills might be.
And the one main thing I was taught was that the community in Poestenkill had no need whatsoever for stupid people, where "stupid" was defined as having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense, and "stupidity" was defined as behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, and that brings us right back to October 10, 2024 and the Town of Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY where we witnessed and were confronted with Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE # #070866, Poestenkill's Commissioner of Public Safety who is also the Captain General of the Militia and Land Forces of the Grand Duchy of Poestenkill, also known as the Free and Independent Republic of Poestenkill, the only Grand Duchy there is within the continental boundaries of the United States of America, and Admiral of the Naval Forces of Poestenkill at home and abroad, who is also Poestenkill's Grand Inquisitor and Chief Censor, as well as High Commissioner of Poestenkill's Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Town of Poestenkill, and in that capacity, the State Security Administrator for Poestenkill, as well as the Keeper/Protector of Public Morals in Poestenkill, by virtue of the fact that High Commissioner Burzesi as a licensed engineer is charged by law with safeguarding life, health and property in Poestenkill, and thus is the most qualified among us to be the chief of the Poestenkill Security apparatus to protect the moral fiber of Poestenkill from harm by people like Patrick Wing, going off on said Patrick Wing like a literal maniac (someone who is or acts mentally unsound, especially a person who behaves in a wildly foolish, reckless, or dangerous manner) because said Patrick Wing dared to exercise his First Amendment rights to speech in Poestenkill by publishing an informational pamphlet titled "The Poestenkill Spotlight," which conduct by Mr. Burzesi is a textbook example of a stupid person, which is to say someone having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense, and "stupidity" itself, which is to say behavior on the part of Mr. Burzesi as an officer of the Town of Poestenkill that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, not only on the part of Frank Burzesi, but also on the part of Tom Russell, June Butler, Eric Wohlleber and David Hass, for all sitting there on their hands, saying nothing, while allowing Mr. Burzesis to make a complete fool out of himself, with his stupid attack on Patrick Wing.
WHY?
Why did they all sit there silent while Frank Burzesi stupidly (in a dazed manner suggesting the inability to think clearly) attacked Patrick Wing, who at all times was acting in a lawful and Constitutional manner?
Why did they say nothing?
Because they too are as stupid as Frank Burzesi?
Curious minds in Poestenkill would like to know!
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November 27th 2024 Edition
"ON THE WORSHIP OF STUPIDITY AND VINCIBLE IGNORANCE IN POESTENKILL!"
When I was young, this being right after the close of WWII, Poestenkill then was a much different place than it has become today.
Back then, Poestenkill was truly a community, a safe place where there was a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
I was a member of the first kindergarten class in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School, and as such, I was taught by one of the strong women who held Poestenkill together during WWII that I was a member of that community, and my purpose in being in school was to learn about that community, its history, its people, and learn about myself, what my strengths and skills were, so I could find my proper place in support of that community, whatever those strengths and skills might be.
And the one main thing I was taught was that the community in Poestenkill had no need whatsoever for stupid people, where "stupid" was defined as having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense, and "stupidity" was defined as behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, and that brings us right back to October 10, 2024 and the Town of Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY where we witnessed and were confronted with Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE # #070866, Poestenkill's Commissioner of Public Safety who is also the Captain General of the Militia and Land Forces of the Grand Duchy of Poestenkill, also known as the Free and Independent Republic of Poestenkill, the only Grand Duchy there is within the continental boundaries of the United States of America, and Admiral of the Naval Forces of Poestenkill at home and abroad, who is also Poestenkill's Grand Inquisitor and Chief Censor, as well as High Commissioner of Poestenkill's Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Town of Poestenkill, and in that capacity, the State Security Administrator for Poestenkill, as well as the Keeper/Protector of Public Morals in Poestenkill, by virtue of the fact that High Commissioner Burzesi as a licensed engineer is charged by law with safeguarding life, health and property in Poestenkill, and thus is the most qualified among us to be the chief of the Poestenkill Security apparatus to protect the moral fiber of Poestenkill from harm by people like Patrick Wing, going off on said Patrick Wing like a literal maniac (someone who is or acts mentally unsound, especially a person who behaves in a wildly foolish, reckless, or dangerous manner) because said Patrick Wing dared to exercise his First Amendment rights to speech in Poestenkill by publishing an informational pamphlet titled "The Poestenkill Spotlight," which conduct by Mr. Burzesi is a textbook example of a stupid person, which is to say someone having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense, and "stupidity" itself, which is to say behavior on the part of Mr. Burzesi as an officer of the Town of Poestenkill that shows a lack of good sense or judgment, not only on the part of Frank Burzesi, but also on the part of Tom Russell, June Butler, Eric Wohlleber and David Hass, for all sitting there on their hands, saying nothing, while allowing Mr. Burzesis to make a complete fool out of himself, with his stupid attack on Patrick Wing.
WHY?
Why did they all sit there silent while Frank Burzesi stupidly (in a dazed manner suggesting the inability to think clearly) attacked Patrick Wing, who at all times was acting in a lawful and Constitutional manner?
Why did they say nothing?
Because they too are as stupid as Frank Burzesi?
Curious minds in Poestenkill would like to know!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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November 30th 2024 Edition
"POLITICAL RETALIATION RESUMES IN POESTENKILL WITH RETURN OF THE LIBERTY LANE 'NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP" SPOTLIGHTS"
Once again, members of a neighborhood watch driving on Weatherwax Road just off Rt. 66 this morning at around 5:00 AM made note of the fact that what are being called Poestenkill's Nazi concentration camp spotlights, those being high-intensity spotlights such as are used to illuminate the yard at the Rensselaer County jail, these being mounted with Poestenkill's approval on the north side of the brick house owned by Patricia and David Gettings on the west end of Liberty Lane, known locally with good reason as Poestenkill's "Hate Alley," were once again in operation, lighting up a patch of woods owned by Poestenkill engineer Paul R. Plante, PE, an object of pure hatred in Poestenkill for daring to challenge endemic corruption in Poestenkill, something that simply is not done if one knows what is good for oneself, so that it appears to passersby and Plante as if Poestenkill's version of the Ku Klux Klan were holding a mass cross burning in the woods with Poestenkill's encouragement and permission, all to strike fear into the heart of professional engineer Paul R. Plante, who has resided on Liberty Lane for over fifty years, this in order to cow Plante into submission, with the hope of making life for Plante, listed in a May 1990 Report to the then-Poestenkill town board by then-Poestenkill dog control officer Christine R. Lincoln as a "well-known agitator," which is an indication of just how long Poestenkill's "Hate Campaign" against Plante has been on-going, so ugly that Plante will be forced to have to flee his home in Poestenkill for his peace of mind and safety.
Whatever may be the case in other towns in New York, or America, for that matter, given that in theory, we are all supposed to be American citizens with the same supposed rights, regardless of what town we live in, in Poestenkill, where we are ruled, not governed, political dissent is not tolerated, and when political dissent in Poestenkill rises to the level of the filing of successful Article 78's by a dissenting town inhabitant such as Plante against the Poestenkill town board, or the Poestenkill planning board, challenging their unlawful and lawless actions, i.e. crimes, in a court of law, for which nobody in lawless Poestenkill is ever held to account, as is the case today where the involvement of the Poestenkill town board in the Michele Asquith affair is being shoved under the rug, and thereby exposes political corruption in Poestenkill for all the world to see, woe be unto that citizen who shall find themselves facing the considerable wrath of Poestenkill, with them essentially shut out of participation in government in Poestenkill, while being stripped of the protection of law, and facing on-going retaliation from Poestenkill, which in Poestenkill's well-developed repertoire of retaliatory tactics can take the form of vehicular assaults, or the spreading of false rumors; for example, as in public officials making the claim in public meetings that the person being retaliated against is "mentally ill, " or a "dangerous retard," or has a criminal record, or was fired from his employment, or making the person's life more difficult by stripping them of the peace of mind, safety and quiet enjoyment of their homes and their property, as we saw on 6 February 2021, when acting in his official capacity as Poestenkill Town Code Enforcement Officer, Tracy Church did willfully and with malice and intent to cause harm put Poestenkill resident Paul Plante's life and well-being in jeopardy make a false report, a crime anywhere other than Poestenkill, to the New York State Police in Sand Lake that Plante was mentally ill and a danger to him and the Poestenkill town board in a vain attempt to have Plante detained and transported to a secure mental facility to be locked in a cage, that in retaliation for Plante's complaints about endemic corruption in Poestenkill, or in the new sophisticated retaliatory tactic twist unique to Poestenkill, the Nazi concentration camp spotlights lighting up Plante's land next to Weatherwax Road coming in off Rt. 66 and just past Liberty Lane, like the Averill Park football field or the Rensselaer County jail, thereby harassing and intimidating Plante, a practice known as light trespass with Poestenkill's encouragement and permission, all to strike fear into the heart of Plante to cow him into submission, or force him to have to flee Poestenkill for his peace of mind and safety.
And that is the news!
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November 30th 2024 Edition
"POLITICAL RETALIATION RESUMES IN POESTENKILL WITH RETURN OF THE LIBERTY LANE 'NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP" SPOTLIGHTS"
Once again, members of a neighborhood watch driving on Weatherwax Road just off Rt. 66 this morning at around 5:00 AM made note of the fact that what are being called Poestenkill's Nazi concentration camp spotlights, those being high-intensity spotlights such as are used to illuminate the yard at the Rensselaer County jail, these being mounted with Poestenkill's approval on the north side of the brick house owned by Patricia and David Gettings on the west end of Liberty Lane, known locally with good reason as Poestenkill's "Hate Alley," were once again in operation, lighting up a patch of woods owned by Poestenkill engineer Paul R. Plante, PE, an object of pure hatred in Poestenkill for daring to challenge endemic corruption in Poestenkill, something that simply is not done if one knows what is good for oneself, so that it appears to passersby and Plante as if Poestenkill's version of the Ku Klux Klan were holding a mass cross burning in the woods with Poestenkill's encouragement and permission, all to strike fear into the heart of professional engineer Paul R. Plante, who has resided on Liberty Lane for over fifty years, this in order to cow Plante into submission, with the hope of making life for Plante, listed in a May 1990 Report to the then-Poestenkill town board by then-Poestenkill dog control officer Christine R. Lincoln as a "well-known agitator," which is an indication of just how long Poestenkill's "Hate Campaign" against Plante has been on-going, so ugly that Plante will be forced to have to flee his home in Poestenkill for his peace of mind and safety.
Whatever may be the case in other towns in New York, or America, for that matter, given that in theory, we are all supposed to be American citizens with the same supposed rights, regardless of what town we live in, in Poestenkill, where we are ruled, not governed, political dissent is not tolerated, and when political dissent in Poestenkill rises to the level of the filing of successful Article 78's by a dissenting town inhabitant such as Plante against the Poestenkill town board, or the Poestenkill planning board, challenging their unlawful and lawless actions, i.e. crimes, in a court of law, for which nobody in lawless Poestenkill is ever held to account, as is the case today where the involvement of the Poestenkill town board in the Michele Asquith affair is being shoved under the rug, and thereby exposes political corruption in Poestenkill for all the world to see, woe be unto that citizen who shall find themselves facing the considerable wrath of Poestenkill, with them essentially shut out of participation in government in Poestenkill, while being stripped of the protection of law, and facing on-going retaliation from Poestenkill, which in Poestenkill's well-developed repertoire of retaliatory tactics can take the form of vehicular assaults, or the spreading of false rumors; for example, as in public officials making the claim in public meetings that the person being retaliated against is "mentally ill, " or a "dangerous retard," or has a criminal record, or was fired from his employment, or making the person's life more difficult by stripping them of the peace of mind, safety and quiet enjoyment of their homes and their property, as we saw on 6 February 2021, when acting in his official capacity as Poestenkill Town Code Enforcement Officer, Tracy Church did willfully and with malice and intent to cause harm put Poestenkill resident Paul Plante's life and well-being in jeopardy make a false report, a crime anywhere other than Poestenkill, to the New York State Police in Sand Lake that Plante was mentally ill and a danger to him and the Poestenkill town board in a vain attempt to have Plante detained and transported to a secure mental facility to be locked in a cage, that in retaliation for Plante's complaints about endemic corruption in Poestenkill, or in the new sophisticated retaliatory tactic twist unique to Poestenkill, the Nazi concentration camp spotlights lighting up Plante's land next to Weatherwax Road coming in off Rt. 66 and just past Liberty Lane, like the Averill Park football field or the Rensselaer County jail, thereby harassing and intimidating Plante, a practice known as light trespass with Poestenkill's encouragement and permission, all to strike fear into the heart of Plante to cow him into submission, or force him to have to flee Poestenkill for his peace of mind and safety.
And that is the news!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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December 2nd 2024 Edition
"WE DON'T DO IT THAT WAY HERE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT IT DONE THAT WAY!"
Were one to read the "History of Saratoga County, New York" by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester written in 1878, in the chapter on Stillwater under Part IV. - Organization, one would come across the following words which persisted in Poestenkill up until perhaps circa 1970, after which time, things greatly changed in Poestenkill for the worse from the standpoint of a citizen/land owner who wished for honest, competent, trustworthy, dependable and reliable town government as it once was, before our ways got changed because people new to Poestenkill didn't want it done that way, anymore, they wanted fast and loose, and having political power over us, i.e.. Owen Goldfarb on the Planning Board, Chris Momrow on the Planning Board, they tipped order through law on its ear, and the old ways died, to wit:
One great feature of American civil life differing from the nations of the old world is the local government by towns.
Indeed, this is regarded by many writers as not only the foundation, but the defense of free government.
The early New England town-meeting system is believed to have not only trained their own people to habits of independent thought and independent action, but to have manifestly led the whole people of the colonies onward to firmly demand, and bravely win, their independence.
end quotes
And how is it that I know this?
I know this because it is what I was taught as a member, the only one left in Poestenkill, of the first kindergarten in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School as required knowledge for a citizen in the this town and in this nation to have, for out of that came "duty to society," a concept that totally disappeared in Poestenkill by the time we got to the 1980's.
Back then, we children were told that the purpose of our education in the Poestenkill Elementary School was to continue that tradition of FREE GOVERNMENT, something we do not have in Poestenkill today, and this editorialist knows of what he speaks, by training us in our turn to habits of independent thought and independent action, two things not allowed in Poestenkill today, so that we were not going to be like the "GOOD GERMANS" in Germany who allowed the rise of the rug-chewing madman Adolph Hitler by their silence.
But today, in Poestenkill, as we recently saw on October 10, 2024 at the Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY where we witnessed and were confronted with Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE #070866 going off on Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing by name on behalf of the Poestenkill Town Board for Mr. Wing daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community in Poestenkill without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board, which is the arbiter of what is good for the community, to do so, that tradition I was taught in kindergarten in Poestenkill back when is very clearly dead on arrival in the Poestenkill town hall of today, which building, ironically was once a school in Poestenkill where young adults in Poestenkill were trained to habits of independent thought and independent action for the good of the community of Poestenkill, of which we all once were a part, before the old ways died, and a new way of doing things was introduced and enforced, as we were all witness to on October 10, 2024 at the Poestenkill Town Board Meeting when Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE #070866 went off on Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing on behalf of the Poestenkill Town Board for Mr. Wing daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board to do so. a cardinal sin in the Poestenkill of today where independent thought and independent action are no longer allowed.
And as we all saw in the 2 November 2023 Edition of the Gazette, in the editorial "Deranged Denunciato Calls Into Question Councilman-elect Burzesi's Fitness to Serve Poestenkill Residents Fairly and Impartially as Town Officer," October 10, 2024 was not the first time Councilman Burzesi, the self-styled and self-appointed head of Poestenkill's state security apparatus, went off on Patrick Wing by name for daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the Poestenkill community of which he is a member.
And except for this publication which endorses independent thinking for the well-being of the Poestenkill community, SILENCE on this abuse of not only Mr. Wing's right to free expression, but the same right of all of us, as well, by Frank Burzesi and the Poestenkill Town Board has reigned in the land.
WHY?
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December 2nd 2024 Edition
"WE DON'T DO IT THAT WAY HERE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT IT DONE THAT WAY!"
Were one to read the "History of Saratoga County, New York" by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester written in 1878, in the chapter on Stillwater under Part IV. - Organization, one would come across the following words which persisted in Poestenkill up until perhaps circa 1970, after which time, things greatly changed in Poestenkill for the worse from the standpoint of a citizen/land owner who wished for honest, competent, trustworthy, dependable and reliable town government as it once was, before our ways got changed because people new to Poestenkill didn't want it done that way, anymore, they wanted fast and loose, and having political power over us, i.e.. Owen Goldfarb on the Planning Board, Chris Momrow on the Planning Board, they tipped order through law on its ear, and the old ways died, to wit:
One great feature of American civil life differing from the nations of the old world is the local government by towns.
Indeed, this is regarded by many writers as not only the foundation, but the defense of free government.
The early New England town-meeting system is believed to have not only trained their own people to habits of independent thought and independent action, but to have manifestly led the whole people of the colonies onward to firmly demand, and bravely win, their independence.
end quotes
And how is it that I know this?
I know this because it is what I was taught as a member, the only one left in Poestenkill, of the first kindergarten in the then-new Poestenkill Elementary School as required knowledge for a citizen in the this town and in this nation to have, for out of that came "duty to society," a concept that totally disappeared in Poestenkill by the time we got to the 1980's.
Back then, we children were told that the purpose of our education in the Poestenkill Elementary School was to continue that tradition of FREE GOVERNMENT, something we do not have in Poestenkill today, and this editorialist knows of what he speaks, by training us in our turn to habits of independent thought and independent action, two things not allowed in Poestenkill today, so that we were not going to be like the "GOOD GERMANS" in Germany who allowed the rise of the rug-chewing madman Adolph Hitler by their silence.
But today, in Poestenkill, as we recently saw on October 10, 2024 at the Poestenkill Town Board Meeting at 42:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY where we witnessed and were confronted with Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE #070866 going off on Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing by name on behalf of the Poestenkill Town Board for Mr. Wing daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community in Poestenkill without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board, which is the arbiter of what is good for the community, to do so, that tradition I was taught in kindergarten in Poestenkill back when is very clearly dead on arrival in the Poestenkill town hall of today, which building, ironically was once a school in Poestenkill where young adults in Poestenkill were trained to habits of independent thought and independent action for the good of the community of Poestenkill, of which we all once were a part, before the old ways died, and a new way of doing things was introduced and enforced, as we were all witness to on October 10, 2024 at the Poestenkill Town Board Meeting when Poestenkill councilman Frank Burzesi, NYSPE #070866 went off on Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing on behalf of the Poestenkill Town Board for Mr. Wing daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board to do so. a cardinal sin in the Poestenkill of today where independent thought and independent action are no longer allowed.
And as we all saw in the 2 November 2023 Edition of the Gazette, in the editorial "Deranged Denunciato Calls Into Question Councilman-elect Burzesi's Fitness to Serve Poestenkill Residents Fairly and Impartially as Town Officer," October 10, 2024 was not the first time Councilman Burzesi, the self-styled and self-appointed head of Poestenkill's state security apparatus, went off on Patrick Wing by name for daring to engage in independent thought and independent action for the good of the Poestenkill community of which he is a member.
And except for this publication which endorses independent thinking for the well-being of the Poestenkill community, SILENCE on this abuse of not only Mr. Wing's right to free expression, but the same right of all of us, as well, by Frank Burzesi and the Poestenkill Town Board has reigned in the land.
WHY?
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 4th 2024 Edition
"ON LAWLESSNESS IN POESTENKILL"
With Poestenkill's "Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights" again in operation this morning around 5 A.M. as Poestenkill continues its long-term "HATE CAMPAIGN" (a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them - Collin's Dictionary) against Poestenkill engineer Paul Plante for various "crimes" against society in Poestenkill, such as disloyalty to Poestenkill town government, not being properly respectful to Poestenkill town government, not being sincerely civil to Poestenkill town officials, engaging in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community in Poestenkill without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board, which is the sole arbiter of what is good for the community, to do so, being too thorough as a licensed professional engineer instead of being a milksop (a person who is indecisive and lacks courage) rubber stamp, and for engaging in protected political speech by publishing this newsletter without prior permission from Poestenkill to do so, and for further daring to publish without first getting prior approval of the content from Poestenkill's state security apparatus, what a perfect time to delve into the subject of "lawlessness" in Poestenkill, which subject was raised in the Fall 2024 edition of the Poestenkill Spotlight under the heading "New Code Enforcement Policy Enacted," which new policy is simply a continuation of Poestenkill's formerly unspoken policy of not enforcing either law or code in Poestenkill, because we don't do it that way here, anymore.
And to be clear, when this publication uses the term "lawlessness" with respect to the Town of Poestenkill, the term "lawlessness" carries its common meaning of "a state of disorder due to a disregard of the law," which takes us back to the Fall 2024 edition of the Poestenkill Spotlight under the heading "NYS Audit Uncovers Embezzlement of Poestenkill Taxpayer Money," which embezzlement did not occur in a vacuum and could not have occurred if this town had a competent, efficient, honest and trustworthy town government, which statement will have the Poestenkill Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights blazing long into the future as punishment for thinking in print that we do not have competent, efficient, honest and trustworthy town government in this town, when what we have is a clown show where nobody has a clue as to how much money the town is holding and where that money might be, while we are forced to pay a $25,000 penalty to the federal government because Poestenkill town government failed to file the proper forms in a timely manner.
As to the term "lawless" with respect to Poestenkill, it carries its common dictionary definition of "not restrained or controlled by law," because we don't do it that way here in Poestenkill, where outside laws, rules and regulations are deemed by the authorities in Poestenkill to be offensive to the perceived proper administration of town affairs in Poestenkill, where if one is friends with the right people in town government, one can do whatever one pleases, i.e. run a wood processing operation in a residentially zoned area of Poestenkill that is obnoxious to the neighbors, who themselves, due to several detrimental concessions made by Poestenkill out of gross stupidity and open contempt for law and order, have been stripped of the protection of law in Poestenkill, as is the case with Poestenkill engineer Paul Plante with the Poestenkill-approved Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights blazing on his land, as if Poestenkill's Ku Klux Klan were holding a mass cross burning to drive Plante from Poestenkill as an "undesirable" who is not wanted here.
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December 4th 2024 Edition
"ON LAWLESSNESS IN POESTENKILL"
With Poestenkill's "Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights" again in operation this morning around 5 A.M. as Poestenkill continues its long-term "HATE CAMPAIGN" (a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them - Collin's Dictionary) against Poestenkill engineer Paul Plante for various "crimes" against society in Poestenkill, such as disloyalty to Poestenkill town government, not being properly respectful to Poestenkill town government, not being sincerely civil to Poestenkill town officials, engaging in independent thought and independent action for the good of the community in Poestenkill without prior approval of the Poestenkill Town Board, which is the sole arbiter of what is good for the community, to do so, being too thorough as a licensed professional engineer instead of being a milksop (a person who is indecisive and lacks courage) rubber stamp, and for engaging in protected political speech by publishing this newsletter without prior permission from Poestenkill to do so, and for further daring to publish without first getting prior approval of the content from Poestenkill's state security apparatus, what a perfect time to delve into the subject of "lawlessness" in Poestenkill, which subject was raised in the Fall 2024 edition of the Poestenkill Spotlight under the heading "New Code Enforcement Policy Enacted," which new policy is simply a continuation of Poestenkill's formerly unspoken policy of not enforcing either law or code in Poestenkill, because we don't do it that way here, anymore.
And to be clear, when this publication uses the term "lawlessness" with respect to the Town of Poestenkill, the term "lawlessness" carries its common meaning of "a state of disorder due to a disregard of the law," which takes us back to the Fall 2024 edition of the Poestenkill Spotlight under the heading "NYS Audit Uncovers Embezzlement of Poestenkill Taxpayer Money," which embezzlement did not occur in a vacuum and could not have occurred if this town had a competent, efficient, honest and trustworthy town government, which statement will have the Poestenkill Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights blazing long into the future as punishment for thinking in print that we do not have competent, efficient, honest and trustworthy town government in this town, when what we have is a clown show where nobody has a clue as to how much money the town is holding and where that money might be, while we are forced to pay a $25,000 penalty to the federal government because Poestenkill town government failed to file the proper forms in a timely manner.
As to the term "lawless" with respect to Poestenkill, it carries its common dictionary definition of "not restrained or controlled by law," because we don't do it that way here in Poestenkill, where outside laws, rules and regulations are deemed by the authorities in Poestenkill to be offensive to the perceived proper administration of town affairs in Poestenkill, where if one is friends with the right people in town government, one can do whatever one pleases, i.e. run a wood processing operation in a residentially zoned area of Poestenkill that is obnoxious to the neighbors, who themselves, due to several detrimental concessions made by Poestenkill out of gross stupidity and open contempt for law and order, have been stripped of the protection of law in Poestenkill, as is the case with Poestenkill engineer Paul Plante with the Poestenkill-approved Nazi Concentration Camp Spotlights blazing on his land, as if Poestenkill's Ku Klux Klan were holding a mass cross burning to drive Plante from Poestenkill as an "undesirable" who is not wanted here.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 6th 2024 Edition
"SO ABSURD AS TO BE UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE NONETHELESS IN POESTENKILL"
Were one to peruse a file from the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation titled "Allegations of Corruption in Rensselaer County Government Relating to Land Development; Paul Plante, Director, Environmental Health Division, Rensselaer County Department of Health; Corruption of State and Local Officials," one would come across a memorandum to SAC, Albany, dated 2/24/89, wherein was stated as follows:
It is recommended that a sub file be opened to captioned file for the purpose of filing newspaper articles relating to PAUL PLANTE and relevant matters in Rensselaer County.
With regard to those relevant matters in Rensselaer County, there was an op-ed from Fred LeBrun of the Albany Times Union titled "A Strong Voice for the Choir" which featured this totally absurd relevant event from official Poestenkill history, to wit:
“So, I’m not deluding myself that the watchdog press will hold Rensselaer County accountable down the road to what happens now that Paul Plante is gone.”
“Regrettably, there are already signs that the much-assailed county Health Department is doing a belly-up, adopting the laissez-faire attitude of 10 years ago.”
“Which means more polluted wells and the stench of bad septic systems.”
“Not from the Victor Gushes or Steve Andersons developing the top of the line – they are too publicly visible – but from well-connected rip-off artists who mysteriously will get necessary permits and paperwork from the county the way they used to, with bogus inspections, or none at all, for who knows what considerations.”
“Going down with Plante, unfortunately, is a hard-nosed system of checks and balances on development in the county.”
“Who, if anyone, I wonder, will step in to save the county?
“Back in 1983, he (Plante) heard that the neighboring Zweig farm, with a chicken barn on it, was going to be subdivided into apartments.”
“He (Plante) went to the zoning board meeting and was shown a letter from the county attesting to the existing septic system in the barn.”
“A chicken coop with toilets?”
“This was something new.”
“Plante persisted.”
“A red-faced county allowed as how maybe there wasn’t a septic system at all, and suddenly the developer had to adhere to the rules.”
“But Plante couldn’t stop wondering: How could the county screw up so badly?”
“Who was watching the store?”
“In 1986, because – ironically – of an innovative Industrial Development Agency proposal pitched to (Rensselaer County Executive John L. “Smiling Jack”) Buono, Plante was named to mind the store.”
end quotes
Now, considering that the "Poestenkill Chicken Toilets" Scandal took place in 1983, the question arises as to why Fred LeBrun would be remembering it and writing about it six years later in 1989, and why the Federal Bureau of Investigation would have that particular op-ed in their files, and the simple answer is that it was so bizarre, so absurd, so absolutely weird that Poestenkill would actually believe not only that there were such things as chicken toilets in chicken houses, but that chickens actually used them, that it has become an essential part of local legend about Poestenkill, where anything under the sun that is totally absurd is likely to happen, and of course, the corrupt Rensselaer County Department of Health, so that the Poestenkill "Chicken Toilets" story lives on into eternity as quintessential Poestenkill weirdness, because where else in America outside of Poestenkill are you going to find zoning board officials who fervently believe in their hearts and souls that chickens are civilized enough to not only appreciate the wonders of indoor plumbing, but to use it as well.
And this saga of Poestenkill being a place where anything under the sun that is totally absurd is likely to happen now includes the assault by the Poestenkill town board on October 10, 2024, at 43:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY on the First Amendment rights of Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing to engage in protected political speech in Poestenkill without fear of governmental retaliation by the Town of Poestenkill, its state security apparatus and its public safety department.
In the United States of America today, which political entity includes within its geographical boundaries the free and independent republic of Poestenkill, the only true Grand Duchy there is in the United States, ruled as it is by its Arch Duke acting as its Gauleiter, who rules with an iron fist as harshly as need be to maintain "equilibrium" in Poestenkill, where the lower classes show proper respect and civility to their betters, the very concept of a town board publicly attacking a United States citizen by name in a public meeting for daring to exercise his First Amendment rights in Poestenkill without prior permission from Poestenkill to do so would be considered absurd in the extreme, absurd on steroids, but we have the evidence of the absurdity actually taking place in real life in the official record of the Poestenkill town meeting of October 10, 2024, at 43:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY .
And how can we possibly deny that given the evidence of the absurdity is now all over the internet, as is the absurdity of the Poestenkill "Chicken Toilets" story?
And the answer is, we can't.
So why do we then tolerate it?
There, people, is and remains the Great Mystery!
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 6th 2024 Edition
"SO ABSURD AS TO BE UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE NONETHELESS IN POESTENKILL"
Were one to peruse a file from the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation titled "Allegations of Corruption in Rensselaer County Government Relating to Land Development; Paul Plante, Director, Environmental Health Division, Rensselaer County Department of Health; Corruption of State and Local Officials," one would come across a memorandum to SAC, Albany, dated 2/24/89, wherein was stated as follows:
It is recommended that a sub file be opened to captioned file for the purpose of filing newspaper articles relating to PAUL PLANTE and relevant matters in Rensselaer County.
With regard to those relevant matters in Rensselaer County, there was an op-ed from Fred LeBrun of the Albany Times Union titled "A Strong Voice for the Choir" which featured this totally absurd relevant event from official Poestenkill history, to wit:
“So, I’m not deluding myself that the watchdog press will hold Rensselaer County accountable down the road to what happens now that Paul Plante is gone.”
“Regrettably, there are already signs that the much-assailed county Health Department is doing a belly-up, adopting the laissez-faire attitude of 10 years ago.”
“Which means more polluted wells and the stench of bad septic systems.”
“Not from the Victor Gushes or Steve Andersons developing the top of the line – they are too publicly visible – but from well-connected rip-off artists who mysteriously will get necessary permits and paperwork from the county the way they used to, with bogus inspections, or none at all, for who knows what considerations.”
“Going down with Plante, unfortunately, is a hard-nosed system of checks and balances on development in the county.”
“Who, if anyone, I wonder, will step in to save the county?
“Back in 1983, he (Plante) heard that the neighboring Zweig farm, with a chicken barn on it, was going to be subdivided into apartments.”
“He (Plante) went to the zoning board meeting and was shown a letter from the county attesting to the existing septic system in the barn.”
“A chicken coop with toilets?”
“This was something new.”
“Plante persisted.”
“A red-faced county allowed as how maybe there wasn’t a septic system at all, and suddenly the developer had to adhere to the rules.”
“But Plante couldn’t stop wondering: How could the county screw up so badly?”
“Who was watching the store?”
“In 1986, because – ironically – of an innovative Industrial Development Agency proposal pitched to (Rensselaer County Executive John L. “Smiling Jack”) Buono, Plante was named to mind the store.”
end quotes
Now, considering that the "Poestenkill Chicken Toilets" Scandal took place in 1983, the question arises as to why Fred LeBrun would be remembering it and writing about it six years later in 1989, and why the Federal Bureau of Investigation would have that particular op-ed in their files, and the simple answer is that it was so bizarre, so absurd, so absolutely weird that Poestenkill would actually believe not only that there were such things as chicken toilets in chicken houses, but that chickens actually used them, that it has become an essential part of local legend about Poestenkill, where anything under the sun that is totally absurd is likely to happen, and of course, the corrupt Rensselaer County Department of Health, so that the Poestenkill "Chicken Toilets" story lives on into eternity as quintessential Poestenkill weirdness, because where else in America outside of Poestenkill are you going to find zoning board officials who fervently believe in their hearts and souls that chickens are civilized enough to not only appreciate the wonders of indoor plumbing, but to use it as well.
And this saga of Poestenkill being a place where anything under the sun that is totally absurd is likely to happen now includes the assault by the Poestenkill town board on October 10, 2024, at 43:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY on the First Amendment rights of Poestenkill resident Patrick Wing to engage in protected political speech in Poestenkill without fear of governmental retaliation by the Town of Poestenkill, its state security apparatus and its public safety department.
In the United States of America today, which political entity includes within its geographical boundaries the free and independent republic of Poestenkill, the only true Grand Duchy there is in the United States, ruled as it is by its Arch Duke acting as its Gauleiter, who rules with an iron fist as harshly as need be to maintain "equilibrium" in Poestenkill, where the lower classes show proper respect and civility to their betters, the very concept of a town board publicly attacking a United States citizen by name in a public meeting for daring to exercise his First Amendment rights in Poestenkill without prior permission from Poestenkill to do so would be considered absurd in the extreme, absurd on steroids, but we have the evidence of the absurdity actually taking place in real life in the official record of the Poestenkill town meeting of October 10, 2024, at 43:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvxQjuiepY .
And how can we possibly deny that given the evidence of the absurdity is now all over the internet, as is the absurdity of the Poestenkill "Chicken Toilets" story?
And the answer is, we can't.
So why do we then tolerate it?
There, people, is and remains the Great Mystery!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 7th 2024 Edition
"WHAT MADNESS IS AFOOT IN POESTENKILL NOW"
Word is now filtering out of Poestenkill town hall that the members of the Laberge comprehensive planning committee in Poestenkill, whose names show up nowhere on the internet, are now advocating for sewers to be added everywhere there is public water in Poestenkill which has raised the question of why, other than as a means for Laberge to squeeze even more money from the pockets of Poestenkill town residents.
Why all of a sudden, when Poestenkill has essentially turned control over this town and its future to the Laberge Group, a twenty million dollar a year operation that makes its money feeding off the taxpayers, which Laberge Group in June of 2025, according to the Town of Poestenkill, is to prepare a resolution to close out SEQRA and adopt a Plan for consideration, do we need sewers in Poestenkill?
To take care of all the chicken houses in Poestenkill equipped with chicken toilets so as to protect Poestenkill's groundwater from pollution from the septic systems presently serving all the chicken toilets in Poestenkill?
Other than from Laberge, as a means of lining its pockets even more with Poestenkill taxpayer dollars, where did this idea of sewers come from?
According to the empty political propaganda put out by Poestenkill, the same town that brought us the now-famous and hilarious "Chicken Toilets Scandal," where Poestenkill was swearing up, down and sideways that in Poestenkill, it was common to find chicken houses with indoor plumbing that the chickens used to do their business, instead of crapping all over the floor, this "Comprehensive Plan represents an effort to craft a vision which reflects the long-term needs and ideals of our community."
Except that is really not true, because what it reflects is not a vision for OUR community, especially when most of OUR community is excluded from the process, but rather, the vision Laberge has for Poestenkill, which is as a jewel in their crown and another cash cow for them to feed off of.
According to Poestenkill, and who can believe a word Poestenkill says about anything, especially chicken toilets, the comprehensive plan being put together by Laberge "is intended to be used as a guide for future land-use and zoning changes, as well as specific strategies to address needs identified by our residents."
So who of our residents have said we now need sewers in Poestenkill?
What is that based on?
Their feelings?
Without knowing anything about sewers, they feel we need them anyway, because?
Do they think because a trench is going to be opened up to put a water line in, that we should just plunk down some sewer lines in there, as well, running them side by side?
Do they know, because as we saw with the "Chicken Toilets Scam," only the very smartest and best and brightest are placed on these types of committees, that if water and sewer lines are in the same trench, they have to have a horizontal separation of ten feet?
Do these best and brightest know that sewer lines in the same trench as water lines are supposed to be deeper than the water lines, which would put the sewer lines some five feet deep in rock, which would then require homeowners to have to make a better than five foot deep trench through rock from their home to the sewer line?
Are they aware of that?
I frankly doubt it.
Do they care?
Again, I frankly doubt it.
Like water district no. 2, the bill of which to pay Laberge will be coming due next month in January 2025, these sewers will be simply jammed down our throats, because this is Poestenkill, and regardless of how things might be done elsewhere, that is how they are done here.
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December 7th 2024 Edition
"WHAT MADNESS IS AFOOT IN POESTENKILL NOW"
Word is now filtering out of Poestenkill town hall that the members of the Laberge comprehensive planning committee in Poestenkill, whose names show up nowhere on the internet, are now advocating for sewers to be added everywhere there is public water in Poestenkill which has raised the question of why, other than as a means for Laberge to squeeze even more money from the pockets of Poestenkill town residents.
Why all of a sudden, when Poestenkill has essentially turned control over this town and its future to the Laberge Group, a twenty million dollar a year operation that makes its money feeding off the taxpayers, which Laberge Group in June of 2025, according to the Town of Poestenkill, is to prepare a resolution to close out SEQRA and adopt a Plan for consideration, do we need sewers in Poestenkill?
To take care of all the chicken houses in Poestenkill equipped with chicken toilets so as to protect Poestenkill's groundwater from pollution from the septic systems presently serving all the chicken toilets in Poestenkill?
Other than from Laberge, as a means of lining its pockets even more with Poestenkill taxpayer dollars, where did this idea of sewers come from?
According to the empty political propaganda put out by Poestenkill, the same town that brought us the now-famous and hilarious "Chicken Toilets Scandal," where Poestenkill was swearing up, down and sideways that in Poestenkill, it was common to find chicken houses with indoor plumbing that the chickens used to do their business, instead of crapping all over the floor, this "Comprehensive Plan represents an effort to craft a vision which reflects the long-term needs and ideals of our community."
Except that is really not true, because what it reflects is not a vision for OUR community, especially when most of OUR community is excluded from the process, but rather, the vision Laberge has for Poestenkill, which is as a jewel in their crown and another cash cow for them to feed off of.
According to Poestenkill, and who can believe a word Poestenkill says about anything, especially chicken toilets, the comprehensive plan being put together by Laberge "is intended to be used as a guide for future land-use and zoning changes, as well as specific strategies to address needs identified by our residents."
So who of our residents have said we now need sewers in Poestenkill?
What is that based on?
Their feelings?
Without knowing anything about sewers, they feel we need them anyway, because?
Do they think because a trench is going to be opened up to put a water line in, that we should just plunk down some sewer lines in there, as well, running them side by side?
Do they know, because as we saw with the "Chicken Toilets Scam," only the very smartest and best and brightest are placed on these types of committees, that if water and sewer lines are in the same trench, they have to have a horizontal separation of ten feet?
Do these best and brightest know that sewer lines in the same trench as water lines are supposed to be deeper than the water lines, which would put the sewer lines some five feet deep in rock, which would then require homeowners to have to make a better than five foot deep trench through rock from their home to the sewer line?
Are they aware of that?
I frankly doubt it.
Do they care?
Again, I frankly doubt it.
Like water district no. 2, the bill of which to pay Laberge will be coming due next month in January 2025, these sewers will be simply jammed down our throats, because this is Poestenkill, and regardless of how things might be done elsewhere, that is how they are done here.
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
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December 11th 2024 Edition
"WHY ARE WE WASTING MONEY ON YET ANOTHER WORTHLESS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN POESTENKILL?"
Yes, people, other than as yet another way for Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell to shove more Poestenkill taxpayer dollars down the pockets of his political cronies, the Laberge Group, because it is not a crime for the Laberge Group to be feeding off the taxpayers of Poestenkill, and when one is a consultant, the one thing one never has enough of is taxpayer dollars in their pocket, why should we be tolerating the fiscally irresponsible and fiscally reckless Poestenkill town board working on yet another "comprehensive plan," when according to this same Town of Poestenkill in its 2006 Comprehensive Plan at p. vii, the comprehensive plan is essentially a worthless document that like so much else in Poestenkill, where the law itself is a joke and lawlessness (a state of disorder due to a disregard of the law) prevails, means exactly nothing at all, as we all saw in the "Poestenkill Chicken Toilets Caper," as it is known in federal law enforcement circles, to wit:
What is a Comprehensive Plan?
Under New York State law, municipalities are granted the authority and responsibility to prepare and adopt comprehensive plans.
As defined in the state legislation, a comprehensive plan is a document that presents goals, objectives, guidelines and policies for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement growth and community development of the community.
Also known as a master plan, a comprehensive plan provides guidance to Town leaders and helps to ensure that the needs of the community will be met.
It is important to understand that the action items described in the plan are not requirements.
Rather, they are recommendations designed to provide focus and direction as Poestenkill moves ahead to reach its preferred future.
It will be up to the local community to decide on an ongoing basis which initiatives they wish to implement and how they wish to proceed.
Although any future land use regulation must be in accordance with the principles of the Comprehensive Plan, there is no legally binding requirement that the Town implement each of the action items proposed in the plan.
The Town Board should carefully examine proposed land use strategies to minimize the cost to residents and protect private property rights.
end quotes
And according to each and every Comprehensive Plan this town has had since 1970, and the one from 2006 is itself 152 pages long, the "preferred future" of Poestenkill is as follows:
Vision Statement:
The Town of Poestenkill is a vital and prosperous community that is rural by choice.
Future progress requires that the Town wisely protect and preserve its rich rural heritage and assets: traditional small town character, open space and scenic beauty, natural resources, diverse citizenry and strong community schools.
end quotes
So, what does it mean when the comprehensive plan in place states in clear and unambiguous language that Poestenkill is "rural by choice?"
Whose choice?
The comprehensive plan does not say!
And if Poestenkill is "rural by choice," why then are we hearing about public sewers, which takes us to p. 5 of the present comprehensive plan, where we have as follows on that very subject, to wit:
Correspondence from Allan Randall, a hydrologist working in Sand Lake notes that the first step in planning for public water supply and/or sewers would be to determine what areas would be served by the utilities.
The Town would also need to solicit cost estimates and evaluate potential sources of municipal water supply, taking into consideration not only the amount of water available but also the distance to the service area and the land uses above the aquifer: “Planning for future public water supply and sewers cannot be separated from planning for future density of development."
"Requiring low density will make future public water supply and sewage unaffordable."
"Conversely, allowing high density will ... eventually require public water supply and sewers whether or not they are affordable.”
end quotes
So what is up with the sewers then?
High density development in Poestenkill is the answer.
Poestenkill to survive as a town rural by choice, must become a high-density town like East Greenbush or Brunswick, or Poestenkill will have no future, because towns rural by choice are a thing of the past and have to be done away with for the good of the soul of America and our national security and the fiscal well-being of the consultants of the Laberge Group who thanks to Poestenkill's Tom Russell, who has handed them Poestenkill like bling or a slab of meat, now have the town of Poestenkill as another jewel in their crown!
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 11th 2024 Edition
"WHY ARE WE WASTING MONEY ON YET ANOTHER WORTHLESS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN POESTENKILL?"
Yes, people, other than as yet another way for Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell to shove more Poestenkill taxpayer dollars down the pockets of his political cronies, the Laberge Group, because it is not a crime for the Laberge Group to be feeding off the taxpayers of Poestenkill, and when one is a consultant, the one thing one never has enough of is taxpayer dollars in their pocket, why should we be tolerating the fiscally irresponsible and fiscally reckless Poestenkill town board working on yet another "comprehensive plan," when according to this same Town of Poestenkill in its 2006 Comprehensive Plan at p. vii, the comprehensive plan is essentially a worthless document that like so much else in Poestenkill, where the law itself is a joke and lawlessness (a state of disorder due to a disregard of the law) prevails, means exactly nothing at all, as we all saw in the "Poestenkill Chicken Toilets Caper," as it is known in federal law enforcement circles, to wit:
What is a Comprehensive Plan?
Under New York State law, municipalities are granted the authority and responsibility to prepare and adopt comprehensive plans.
As defined in the state legislation, a comprehensive plan is a document that presents goals, objectives, guidelines and policies for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement growth and community development of the community.
Also known as a master plan, a comprehensive plan provides guidance to Town leaders and helps to ensure that the needs of the community will be met.
It is important to understand that the action items described in the plan are not requirements.
Rather, they are recommendations designed to provide focus and direction as Poestenkill moves ahead to reach its preferred future.
It will be up to the local community to decide on an ongoing basis which initiatives they wish to implement and how they wish to proceed.
Although any future land use regulation must be in accordance with the principles of the Comprehensive Plan, there is no legally binding requirement that the Town implement each of the action items proposed in the plan.
The Town Board should carefully examine proposed land use strategies to minimize the cost to residents and protect private property rights.
end quotes
And according to each and every Comprehensive Plan this town has had since 1970, and the one from 2006 is itself 152 pages long, the "preferred future" of Poestenkill is as follows:
Vision Statement:
The Town of Poestenkill is a vital and prosperous community that is rural by choice.
Future progress requires that the Town wisely protect and preserve its rich rural heritage and assets: traditional small town character, open space and scenic beauty, natural resources, diverse citizenry and strong community schools.
end quotes
So, what does it mean when the comprehensive plan in place states in clear and unambiguous language that Poestenkill is "rural by choice?"
Whose choice?
The comprehensive plan does not say!
And if Poestenkill is "rural by choice," why then are we hearing about public sewers, which takes us to p. 5 of the present comprehensive plan, where we have as follows on that very subject, to wit:
Correspondence from Allan Randall, a hydrologist working in Sand Lake notes that the first step in planning for public water supply and/or sewers would be to determine what areas would be served by the utilities.
The Town would also need to solicit cost estimates and evaluate potential sources of municipal water supply, taking into consideration not only the amount of water available but also the distance to the service area and the land uses above the aquifer: “Planning for future public water supply and sewers cannot be separated from planning for future density of development."
"Requiring low density will make future public water supply and sewage unaffordable."
"Conversely, allowing high density will ... eventually require public water supply and sewers whether or not they are affordable.”
end quotes
So what is up with the sewers then?
High density development in Poestenkill is the answer.
Poestenkill to survive as a town rural by choice, must become a high-density town like East Greenbush or Brunswick, or Poestenkill will have no future, because towns rural by choice are a thing of the past and have to be done away with for the good of the soul of America and our national security and the fiscal well-being of the consultants of the Laberge Group who thanks to Poestenkill's Tom Russell, who has handed them Poestenkill like bling or a slab of meat, now have the town of Poestenkill as another jewel in their crown!
Re: THE PAUL PLANTE STORY
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 12th 2024 Edition
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN POESTENKILL?"
According to the existing 152-page Poestenkill Comprehensive Plan at p.vi, under the heading "The Planning Process," we Poestenkill residents were informed that in 1996 the Town Board of Poestenkill had appointed a steering committee composed of 16 citizens representing various interests within the Town to update the Town Comprehensive Plan that had been first adopted in 1970.
1970 happened to be the year I returned to a Poestenkill in a state of turmoil in Poestenkill related to land use and land development, after serving in Viet Nam, and if we stop to consider that according to Poestenkill's demographics from the most recent census, we find that the Median Age in Poestenkill is 42.5 ± 4.0, which means those people were born around 1979 and, if they lived in Poestenkill when young, would only have been around 17 years old in 1996, and so, would not have any memories of those times in Poestenkill and what it meant when the residents of Poestenkill, including myself, chose for Poestenkill to rural by choice, where the concept of "rural" was stability.
While well aware of Brunswick, North Greenbush, East Greenbush and Sand Lake, in 1970 and again in 2006, the people of Poestenkill chose a different destiny or future for Poestenkill, which now appears to be coming under attack, which is why future progress requires that the Town wisely protect and preserve its rich rural heritage and assets: traditional small town character, open space and scenic beauty, natural resources, and diverse citizenry, so Poestenkill does not become another East Greenbush, North Greenbush, Brunswick or Sand Lake!
So, what then is wrong with the existing Poestenkill Comprehensive Plan?
Does it fail in some essential way we haven't been informed about to wisely protect and preserve the rich rural heritage of Poestenkill that people like myself who have spent our lives here and remember well?
Does it fail to protect our traditional small town character and open space and scenic beauty, and natural resources?
If so, how?
Going back to the 152-page 2006 Comprehensive Plan at p. vi, it continues as follows:
The Committee’s charge was to prepare a revised Comprehensive Plan for review and adoption by the Town Board.
The Committee was to gather factual information to assess existing conditions and trends in Poestenkill and surrounding Towns; seek public views and input by survey and open/public meetings; define plans for the future; and propose implementation priorities, timetable and funding strategies for new aspects of the Plan.
Committee members educated themselves about comprehensive planning; talked to planners in other Towns; reviewed other Master Plans; conducted a survey of citizen interests; collected data necessary to determine trends in such areas as population growth, education, housing development and the local economy; and began the decision making process and writing of the Plan.
In 1999, the Comprehensive Plan Committee decided that it needed a consultant to help complete the Comprehensive Plan, and hired River Street Planning & Development with approval of the Town Board.
In April 2000, the Committee organized a community meeting to share information with local residents and businesses about the comprehensive planning project and to get citizen feedback on the proposed vision and goals for the comprehensive plan.
At this meeting, the Town Supervisor, Chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Committee, and River Street Planning described the comprehensive planning process and presented key findings from the Existing Conditions Report.
River Street Planning facilitated a discussion of the proposed vision statement and goals and then broke participants into small groups to further discuss each goal and to suggest projects that would implement the goals that demonstrated a high level of community support.
Many of the specific recommendations in this Action Plan came directly from the citizen feedback received at that meeting.
In October 2004, the Town Board decided to revive the Comprehensive Plan, which had lain stagnant for four years.
They requested Rensselaer County Economic Development and Planning to review and update the information in the Plan.
Additional areas were added that were overlooked in the earlier version, including forest lands and forestry and hard rock mining.
Since the results of the 2000 Census were not available until 2003, the new Census information was incorporated into the document as well as changing trends seen in the new Census.
Several versions of the new draft Comprehensive Plans were put on the Poestenkill Library and then Town website.
Two public hearings were held on September 21, 2006 and October 19, 2006.
end quotes
We were then informed as follows about that 152-page Comprehensive Report, to wit:
In the decades ahead, the Town will enjoy a stable and varied local economy and remain a desirable place to live, raise a family, work, and retire.
Poestenkill's lively hamlet - the center of community life - will be sustained, offering a growing mix of small locally-owned businesses, stores, professional services, and community facilities.
end quotes
In the decades ahead?
Where a decade is ten years everywhere else in America, if not the world, we are not yet even two decades into that rosy future promised us in 2006 by the Poestenkill town board.
So what went wrong?
Why isn't that same rosy future still available today?
Why not even two decades later do we need yet another Comprehensive Plan?
Because the 2006 Comprehensive Plan was a complete piece of crap?
Or was it because the Poestenkill town board, the Poestenkill planning board, and the Poestenkill zoning board members never even bothered to read it, or pay lip service to it, because in Poestenkill, we don't do it that way here.
We go by "feelings," instead.
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill for Democracy in Poestenkill dies in Darkness, while in Darkness, Corruption in Poestenkill Flourishes
December 12th 2024 Edition
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN POESTENKILL?"
According to the existing 152-page Poestenkill Comprehensive Plan at p.vi, under the heading "The Planning Process," we Poestenkill residents were informed that in 1996 the Town Board of Poestenkill had appointed a steering committee composed of 16 citizens representing various interests within the Town to update the Town Comprehensive Plan that had been first adopted in 1970.
1970 happened to be the year I returned to a Poestenkill in a state of turmoil in Poestenkill related to land use and land development, after serving in Viet Nam, and if we stop to consider that according to Poestenkill's demographics from the most recent census, we find that the Median Age in Poestenkill is 42.5 ± 4.0, which means those people were born around 1979 and, if they lived in Poestenkill when young, would only have been around 17 years old in 1996, and so, would not have any memories of those times in Poestenkill and what it meant when the residents of Poestenkill, including myself, chose for Poestenkill to rural by choice, where the concept of "rural" was stability.
While well aware of Brunswick, North Greenbush, East Greenbush and Sand Lake, in 1970 and again in 2006, the people of Poestenkill chose a different destiny or future for Poestenkill, which now appears to be coming under attack, which is why future progress requires that the Town wisely protect and preserve its rich rural heritage and assets: traditional small town character, open space and scenic beauty, natural resources, and diverse citizenry, so Poestenkill does not become another East Greenbush, North Greenbush, Brunswick or Sand Lake!
So, what then is wrong with the existing Poestenkill Comprehensive Plan?
Does it fail in some essential way we haven't been informed about to wisely protect and preserve the rich rural heritage of Poestenkill that people like myself who have spent our lives here and remember well?
Does it fail to protect our traditional small town character and open space and scenic beauty, and natural resources?
If so, how?
Going back to the 152-page 2006 Comprehensive Plan at p. vi, it continues as follows:
The Committee’s charge was to prepare a revised Comprehensive Plan for review and adoption by the Town Board.
The Committee was to gather factual information to assess existing conditions and trends in Poestenkill and surrounding Towns; seek public views and input by survey and open/public meetings; define plans for the future; and propose implementation priorities, timetable and funding strategies for new aspects of the Plan.
Committee members educated themselves about comprehensive planning; talked to planners in other Towns; reviewed other Master Plans; conducted a survey of citizen interests; collected data necessary to determine trends in such areas as population growth, education, housing development and the local economy; and began the decision making process and writing of the Plan.
In 1999, the Comprehensive Plan Committee decided that it needed a consultant to help complete the Comprehensive Plan, and hired River Street Planning & Development with approval of the Town Board.
In April 2000, the Committee organized a community meeting to share information with local residents and businesses about the comprehensive planning project and to get citizen feedback on the proposed vision and goals for the comprehensive plan.
At this meeting, the Town Supervisor, Chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Committee, and River Street Planning described the comprehensive planning process and presented key findings from the Existing Conditions Report.
River Street Planning facilitated a discussion of the proposed vision statement and goals and then broke participants into small groups to further discuss each goal and to suggest projects that would implement the goals that demonstrated a high level of community support.
Many of the specific recommendations in this Action Plan came directly from the citizen feedback received at that meeting.
In October 2004, the Town Board decided to revive the Comprehensive Plan, which had lain stagnant for four years.
They requested Rensselaer County Economic Development and Planning to review and update the information in the Plan.
Additional areas were added that were overlooked in the earlier version, including forest lands and forestry and hard rock mining.
Since the results of the 2000 Census were not available until 2003, the new Census information was incorporated into the document as well as changing trends seen in the new Census.
Several versions of the new draft Comprehensive Plans were put on the Poestenkill Library and then Town website.
Two public hearings were held on September 21, 2006 and October 19, 2006.
end quotes
We were then informed as follows about that 152-page Comprehensive Report, to wit:
In the decades ahead, the Town will enjoy a stable and varied local economy and remain a desirable place to live, raise a family, work, and retire.
Poestenkill's lively hamlet - the center of community life - will be sustained, offering a growing mix of small locally-owned businesses, stores, professional services, and community facilities.
end quotes
In the decades ahead?
Where a decade is ten years everywhere else in America, if not the world, we are not yet even two decades into that rosy future promised us in 2006 by the Poestenkill town board.
So what went wrong?
Why isn't that same rosy future still available today?
Why not even two decades later do we need yet another Comprehensive Plan?
Because the 2006 Comprehensive Plan was a complete piece of crap?
Or was it because the Poestenkill town board, the Poestenkill planning board, and the Poestenkill zoning board members never even bothered to read it, or pay lip service to it, because in Poestenkill, we don't do it that way here.
We go by "feelings," instead.