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Film Premier at Palaia By Margaret Menge -- Evan Meaney set out to make a documentary last year. The film was going to be about Frank Olson, an American scientist who worked on the development of biological weapons in the 1950s. Meaney wanted to get to the bottom of what happened to Olson, who disappeared suddenly in 1953, and may have been knocked off by the CIA. But the film became something else entirely. Meaney, a 2003 graduate of Cornwall high school who just earned his bachelor's in cinema production from Ithaca College, ended up making a 35-minute documentary about Frank Olson's son Eric and about how the loss of his father affected this one man over the last half century. On Thursday, Aug. 2 and Friday, Aug. 3, at 8 p.m., Palaia Vineyards on Route 32 is holding a special event, showing Evan's film "a Broker of Fragments" on the back deck of the winery, with a wine and cheese tasting, and wine sold by the glass. Everyone's invited to attend, to meet the filmmaker and see the film. Evan Meaney graduated from Cornwall in 2003 and went to Binghamton University, and then on to Ithaca College, where he studied filmmaking. The screenings at Palaia Vineyards next month will be the first time his film, which he made as part of his degree program at Ithaca, will be shown outside the classroom. Read the full story in the July 27, 2007 issue.
By Margaret Menge -- She wasn't sure she was going to do it. But she thought she might. So she got a "walk list" from the county that showed where all the Republicans in town live, and went door to door, knocking and talking and listening. In the end, Helen Bunt, the former town supervisor, collected 205 signatures - more than enough to qualify to get on the ballot in the Republican primary in September to face down Kevin Quigley for town supervisor. "Some people said, 'I was waiting for you,' which made me feel good,"says Helen. "And you know what? I said 'Maybe this is right. Maybe it's my civic responsibility.'" Helen Bunt is going it alone this year, as the only un-endorsed Republican. All of the other candidates for town offices (all Republicans, no Democrats are running) were endorsed by the Cornwall Republican Committee, and listed their names all together on one petition. Kevin Quigley became the committee's candidate for supervisor after winning the endorsement by a margin of one vote at the committee's meeting on June 5. But Helen doesn't seem particularly bothered to have been excluded, or feel particularly rebellious about going it alone either. She seems pretty calm, talking about the race in the back room of Butterhill Day School on Main Street. Read the full story in the July 27, 2007 issue.
Letter writer targets town justice By Margaret Menge -- Unsigned letters were sent to both The Cornwall Local and the Orange County Board of Elections last week, alleging that Town Justice Frank Navarra is lying about his residence and is not, in fact, living in the Town of Cornwall. Navarra, who is up for re-election this year as one of two town justices, is furious. "Don't shoot blanks at Frank Navarra," he said, "Cause I'm not gonna flinch." Navarra says he called Frank Phillips, the Orange County District Attorney this week, to ask his office to launch a criminal investigation, and says he is FOILing the phone records from the Board of Elections, to see if he can find out who placed a call to them. The unsigned letter that was sent to the Local begins, "The other night I had a visit from Judge Frank Navarra. He asked me to sign his petition to run for Justice in Cornwall again. When I looked at the petition, I noticed that he listed his home address as 20 Andrews Street in the Village. When I asked him if he lived there, he said that his mother and brother did. I heard he lived with his girlfriend at Orange Lake in Newburgh." The letter writer wrote that he'd placed a call to the Board of Elections, where someone told him that a candidate must live at the address on the petition. The envelope containing the letter to the Local included the printout of a section of state law outlining the requirement that a candidate for local office be a resident of the municipality in which he's looking to serve. And it also included a printout from an online directory, with a map, showing an address for Francis Navarra at 34 Tenbrouck Court in Newburgh. Read the full story in the July 27, 2007 issue. |
