Monthly Archives: October 2011

Talkin’ Code with Andrew Getty

Help Code Office help you: Do your best to hire a professional

Q: We want to build a new house. What is required before we start?

A: Of course a building permit and all the normal stuff like surveys, plot plans, construction plans, energy code compliance sheets and septic system design prepared by an engineer.

Q: You can see where the house is on the lot, why do we need a survey?

A: To verify exactly the setback distances to all property lines or shorelines and distances to other existing buildings on the property and to verify that the property markers have not been disturbed.

Q: Oh!, We can give you that information, we used a yard stick and flipped it over and over, end-over-end and measured everything! We have lots of room! Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor: Candidates sold short: Not pleased with process that led to group’s endorsement

To the Editor:

Concerning your article in the October 20th issue about the Webb Property Owners Association’s political endorsements:

After determining that only half the supervisor candidates could make it to the WPOA’s regular meeting, the WPOA’s board really dropped the ball. Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor: Occupy Wall Street? After seeing The Street’s activity, you bet!

To the Editor:

When I lived in New York I spent a lot of time with people who worked on Wall Street.

I was the recipient of invitations to their lavish black-tie events, and four-star restaurants where numerous bottles of wine with a price tag that could feed a family for a year were served.

I loved it when they sent a car to pick me up at my modest apartment.

I won’t lie when I say how thrilled I was to be sitting at the table across from Billy Joel while he tapped out the music to Elton John’s live performance on stage.

Numerous other celebrities came over to our table that night, no doubt because someone told them we were from a major Wall Street firm that paid a great deal of money for the privilege.

You Wall Street people know how to live, I thought, since the publishing industry I am closely connected to never showed me this kind of experience.

My friends were partners in major firms, who bought hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages and created very complicated securities from them.

I learned that some of the securities were created by MIT mathematicians, and when I had a conversation with one of the math “geniuses,” telling them that I considered myself to be a fairly intelligent person, but I could not understand these securities, the reply was, that’s o.k., people selling them don’t understand them either. Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor: Webb and District 15 never better served than by Patrick Russell

To the Editor:

Patrick Russell is the man we need in Herkimer. For years he has dedicated his life to serving the Town of Webb. He grew up in Old Forge, lives in Old Forge, is raising his family in Old Forge, and is a business owner is Old Forge.

Fortunately, over a dozen years, he has worked to a position of respect and authority in the Herkimer County Legislature, where he represents the best interests of the Town of Webb.

To his credit, Patrick Russell maintains strong working relationships in Herkimer without selling out to individuals or political interests in the southern county.

Those productive working relationships take years to develop.

As the Majority Leader, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and a member of the County Planning and Highways committees, Patrick Russell actively and aggressively represents the interests and concerns of Northern Herkimer County in key areas, and he has garnered the respect of the important fellow legislators throughout the county. Continue reading

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View thanks volunteers

On behalf of Jennifer Potter Hayes, Executive Director of View, the Board of Directors and Staff, we would like to extend our warm thanks to all of our volunteers these past many months.

Thanks to you we had a wonderfully successful opening season.

It was a first for View in many ways and you were kind and generous with your time, enthusiasm and support.

Your love of volunteering and being at View not only impressed us but the many visitors who came through our doors.

We will return to our traditional Annual Volunteer Party on Wednesday, August 15, 2012.

On June 6 we will have a Welcome Back Orientation get-together and look forward to seeing everyone again as we start our second summer of activities in the new building.

We welcome everyone who is interested in volunteering at View! There are plenty of opportunities, year round.

Please stop by the front desk for more information.

We wish you all a happy winter, wherever you may be, and hope you continue to stay in touch with View.

Sincerely,

Margo Boylan and Laurie Montanye, Volunteer Coordinators

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Letter to the Editor: Untrue and arrogant for Russell to presume who chairmen will be

To the Editor:

At last night’s Meet the Candidates Night at View, Patrick Russell said that if he lost the election for Herkimer County Legislator, the Town of Webb would lose the Ways and Means Committee Chairmanship, but the truth is as follows, according to an e-mail from County Legislator Helen Rose, of District 2:

“For Mr. Russell to mislead voters, to assume he has a lock on the Chairman of Ways and Means, is just more arrogance and misinformation.

“According to the Rules of the Herkimer County Legislature: Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor: Thanks for your help, Mr. Ilion, but Webb can manage itself

To the Editor:

Thank you very much to the letter writer from Ilion, but I do not need to hear from anyone in the Mohawk Valley telling me who should represent the Town of Webb in Herkimer.

Patrick Russell has risen to a position of respect and power in the Legislator through hard work and his own success.

Instead of name-dropping as a spokesperson, let those wealthy, successful “international businessman” supporters voice their own opinions.

Webb is the cash cow for Herkimer County, and we do not need outside political interests reaching further into our pockets. Continue reading

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