Dear Bob Sacks;
Thanks for your wonderful Chronicle and its binding together effect on this community.
I've just moved back here to Copake Falls and am deeply disturbed by the huge destruction going on at the entrance to the Ore Pit park.
The state is closing parks, but for a minimum 150,000 ( my guess) they've taken out a lot of beautiful trees including the gorgeous red maple Tony Fosegan planted in the little grassy roadway divider when he was park superintendent. I'm told they are putting in a 30 X 50 building to replace the smaller properly scaled old entrance building.
Has anyone seen the plans for this new building? Will it be one of those faceless tasteless metal sheds ? Bigger is not always better.
I wish the town had some oversight on future state projects here, especially when state departments, especially EnCon are so deeply riddled with petty bureaucratic politics, re: the internal vendetta against Ward Stone, the tireless expert pathologist with so many years dedicated public service.
Maybe this could be, for a change, a useful project for the local Tea Party.
Robert Wood
Why does the letter writer assume the worst? The recent upgrading of the wading pool area is terrific. And the area at the entrance of the park had lots of problems -- a temporary trailer office, a turnaround area damaged by vehicles, etc. Why not assume that the new work is well planned and will be well constructed? Why the knee-jerk negativity? I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteHere's more information from this week's Columbia Paper on the exciting new construction at the entrance of Taconic State Park in Copake Falls: http://www.columbiapaper.com/index.php/the-news/1670-by-diane-valden
ReplyDeleteA new entrance building is being created for park check-in and visitor information. The park now has no office and no proper entrance.
Even better news -- the project was largely funded by a half-million dollar private donation. This is great news -- a tremendous improvement for the Park and for Copake Falls with extremely generous support from a passionate supporter of State Parks. Let's celebrate this great news!