T IMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 14, No 50 3 DECEMBER 13 - 19, 2017
After three years of operating without
a contract, a formal agreement was
approved last week between the Town of
Lloyd and the Lloyd Police Department. It
will be backdated to January 1, 2015 and
run through December 31, 2019.
Supervisor Paul Hansut highlighted a
ONE DOLLAR
Remembering
Pearl
Harbor
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Lloyd approves police contract
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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few of the changes: adding one personal
day for the officers and making Martin
Luther King’s Birthday a paid holiday
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Santa arrives in Highland!
Plattekill
honors
30 year
highway
employee
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Irving Ellis loved working for the
Plattekill Highway Department, so much
so that he stayed for 30 years and just
recently retired in late November.
“My wife used to laugh at me, I loved
my job, absolutely loved my job. You meet
all kinds of people in the public,” he said.
Ellis worked at a variety of jobs for the
department, “everything from a laborer to
a truck driver to an equipment operator.”
Ellis said when he was a young man
with a growing family he searched for
a secure job that included benefits;
Plattekill fit the bill. He already had the
necessary license to drive large trucks
when he applied for the job.
“They took a chance on me and I got
the job,” he recalled.
Ellis enjoyed not being locked into
“one thing all the time; jobs can change a
half-dozen times during a day depending
on what happens, if its a rain storm
and you get called out for flooding or its
drainage or tree work or blacktop; there
is such a variety of things.”
Mark Reynolds
Santa says hello to all, Friday night, during the annual “Light Up the Hamlet” celebration in Highland. More photos on pages 3 and 34.
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