MONTICELLO, NY — Greg Goldstein, a former Sullivan County legislator and Town of Neversink supervisor, was honored on November 16 with the 2018 SYDA Foundation Community Service Award at the government center. The award comes with a $5,000 gift, which Goldstein said he would donate to five local nonprofit organizations.

Goldstein is president and owner of the Misner Insurance Agency, which has four locations in Orange and Sullivan County and employs more than 20 people. Goldstein has been very active in civic life and has served as president of the Fallsburg Central School District Board and chairman of the Republican Party in Sullivan County. He currently serves as chairperson of the executive committee for the Orange and Sullivan Boys and Girls Club Celebrity Dinner and has helped raise more than $40,000 a year to support programs for young people. He is on the board of

SullivanArc, whose mission is to enable persons of all ages with disabilities to live as contributing, valued members of the community.

Goldstein volunteers his time and expertise to other causes and organizations, including the WSUL/WVOS Heart-a-Thon, which raises funds for the Catskills Regional Medical Center cardiac center. The SYDA Foundation, located in the Town of Fallsburg since 1979, is a not-for-profit organization that makes Siddha Yoga meditation available to students around the world.