2025 budget recap PSA As you may be aware, the Chester Town Board has recently concluded its 2025 budget. We appreciate all the input and feedback... Letters to the Editor 03 Dec 2024 | 12:35
Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center financial update For most of the year, the town and accounting department have been playing catch-up with previous management/accounting failures.... Letters to the Editor 25 Oct 2024 | 03:21
EMS contract work session Sept. 4 I am happy to report that there will be a joint town and village of Chester work session on the EMS contract proposals and... Letters to the Editor 03 Sep 2024 | 11:34
Public survey for Chester’s budget One of the promises my running mates and I made to the public during last year’s campaign was that we would start the budget... Letters to the Editor 12 Aug 2024 | 01:51
Chester White-Collar Union contract You may have heard that the town board voted to approve the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the new White-Collar... Letters to the Editor 29 Jul 2024 | 02:40
Ethics, advisory board, and bagels The Chester Town Board recently passed a resolution I sponsored that creates a Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center (SLPAC)... Letters to the Editor 26 Mar 2024 | 10:26
Chester Councilmen Brandon Holdridge and Robert Courtenay. Chester councilmen call for investigation into supervisor Chester Town Councilmen Robert Courtenay (R) and Brandon Holdridge (D) last week asked Orange County District Attorney David... News 16 Oct 2023 | 11:05
Ethics in local government We put a lot of trust in our elected officials to do the right thing and represent us with our best interests at heart. We... Letters to the Editor 02 Oct 2023 | 02:03
In support of Holdridge, Dysinger, and Becker Our neighborhood has been dealing with noise issues from a nearby business for a while. Our family, as well as other residents,... Letters to the Editor 02 Oct 2023 | 12:40
Community responsiveness and outreach I’m a member of the Sugar Loaf Chamber of Commerce, business owner, and resident of the town of Chester. Many elected representatives... Letters to the Editor 02 Oct 2023 | 12:33
‘His commitment and follow-through are why I’m supporting Brandon Holdridge for Town Supervisor’ My family and neighbors live on a block very close to Trout Brook. The stream overflowed and flooded our homes many times... Letters to the Editor 12 Sep 2023 | 11:47
Chester Town Councilman Brandon Holdridge. ( Photo provided.) Holdridge announces bid for Town Supervisor Councilman Brandon Holdridge has announced his intention to run for Chester Town Supervisor. A lifelong, third-generation... Home 03 Mar 2023 | 06:12
Notes from November To the editor: Despite significant Democratic voter registration advantages, our County supported Republican Gubernatorial... Letters to the Editor 21 Nov 2022 | 08:49
Requesting a central county Covid testing site Last week, at the first Chester Town Board meeting of 2022, the board unanimously passed my motion to send a letter to Governor... Letters to the Editor 17 Jan 2022 | 02:12
Brandon Holdridge asked the town board about loud noise coming from Camp Monroe late at night. ( Frances Ruth Harris) Noise ordinance to get another look after Camp Monroe complaints Getting a noise ordinance for the town of Chester has been kicking around for years. At the town's Aug. 28 board meeting,... Local News 04 Sep 2019 | 01:48
