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Scramble over 'use-it-or-lose-it' federal earmarks leads to shifts in local projects

HAMLET OF WALLKILL – The Town of Shawangunk is poised to replace two-foot-wide asphalt sidewalks on five streets in Wallkill this year with what is arguably somebody else’s money.The $1.5 million project will be paid for mostly with federal earmarks that were awarded more than 10 years ago to other road, bridge and sidewalk projects on the Orange County Transportation Council’s to-do list that were never pursued.As a result, the towns of Goshen, Chester, [...]

 

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