Infrastructure in Tusten

By LIAM MAYO
Posted 3/1/23

NARROWSBURG, NY — On the agenda for the Town of Tusten Town Board on February 14 was a resolution regarding the building at 210 Bridge St. that serves as the town hall.

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Infrastructure in Tusten

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NARROWSBURG, NY — On the agenda for the Town of Tusten Town Board on February 14 was a resolution regarding the building at 210 Bridge St. that serves as the town hall.

It was originally built in 1926 by the Narrowsburg Fire Department, and was sold to the Town of Tusten in 1973; it currently houses the Tusten Theatre, as well as municipal offices and town hall meetings.

In the spring of 2022, the town board explored selling 210 Bridge St. and moving the town hall into the former Wayne Bank building at 93 Main St. Public sentiment came out strongly against the move, and the town board abandoned that line of exploration, choosing instead to rent 93 Main St. to Big Eddy Brewery.

The town board in its February 14 meeting authorized town attorney Ken Klein to obtain a commercial appraisal for 210 Bridge St. The appraisal authorization went hand in hand with grants the board pursued, said town supervisor Ben Johnson. “One of the grants that [board member Jane Luchsinger is] talking about utilizing [is] to actually do the space in this building to see if it’s going to work for us, or if it needed another space.” Getting an appraisal now would save time later if the board decided to do something with the building, he said.

One of the grants the town is applying for involves funding from Sullivan 180 to explore space allocation at the town hall, said Luchsinger. The insufficiency of the office space at 210 Bridge St. has been a consistent point of conversation in the town board’s discussions concerning the building.

Energy and conservation

Earlier in the meeting, the board heard updates from the Tusten Energy Committee (TEC) on the town’s various sustainability projects.

The TEC reported that the state comptroller’s office approved a Department of Environmental Conservation grant for $200,000. The grant will fund the relocation of the Tusten HORSE, a machine that turns food scraps into fertilizer, to a food-security pilot project at the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The soft-plastic recycling program run by the TEC has resulted in the town’s seventh plastic bench, the TEC reported. This bench will be dedicated to the memory of Glenn Swendsen, the town’s former highway superintendent.

And the TEC reported that six pendant LED streetlights were installed in Narrowsburg between February 15 and 22, following extensive delays. These would illuminate Narrowsburg’s Main Street; another set, meant for the town’s public parking lot just off Main Street, remained to be hung.

210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg, Tusten, energy, conservation, HORSE

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