Article from Woodstock Times:
Several hundred people gathered for the dedication and opening of the
Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center (CIC) in Mount Tremper
on July 1. Local officials spoke in celebration of the long-delayed
center, addressing an audience that included many Shandaken residents,
along with representatives of cultural and environmental organizations.
Former Congressman Hinchey was present to receive the accolades of
his admirers, including Ulster County Executive Mike Hein, who praised
him as “someone who understood the issue of the environment when no one
else was talking about it, who understood what it meant to be stewards
of the environment and why it mattered.” Assemblyman Kevin Cahill said
he had worked for Hinchey in 1975, when the Congressman sponsored bills
such as one that banned new billboards from being erected in the
Catskills.
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