By Terence P. Ward
STONE RIDGE – Ulster County Executive Michael Hein continued his fight to change the way New York City manages its Ulster County reservoirs in an open forum he put together Monday night, January 23, with city Department of Environmental Protection and state Department of Environmental Conservation officials. At the SUNY Ulster event, Hein's opening comments took the combative tone of the campaign trail, and most of the dozens of people who filled the college's student lounge, where the meeting was shifted from a previously-planned location in the large Quimby Theater, were not in the mood to negotiate. In public commentary, they said loudly that they wanted more money spent to solve problems, and wanted things done faster.
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