Tensions run high at Woodstock Town Board meeting

Tensions run high at Woodstock Town Board meeting

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Tensions during recent Town Board meetings surfaced again Thursday when board members attempted to pass a series of resolutions that had failed to get approval a week earlier. Five of nine resolutions were approved during the Thursday, July 31, meeting. But four others — having to do with either hiring personnel or spending large sums of money — became part of the friction between officials and were defeated. Board members Anul…

Who in Woodstock town management is slacking off?

Besieged Woodstock town supervisor Bill McKenna last week criticized the other members of the town board for not providing sufficient due diligence in town hiring. This week he got an earful of what he had been asking for when he proposed increasing deputy town clerk Michelle Sehwerert’s duties. He didn’t like much of what he heard. What followed was an example of professional personnel management that pleased no one. Town clerk Jackie Earley de…