ELLENVILLE – Greeted with a show of numbers usually reserved for visiting dignitaries or celebrities, representatives from Wal-Mart paid a visit to the Town of Wawarsing Planning Board Meeting on last Tuesday, November 25 — a meeting which had to be moved from Town Hall to Ellenville's Government Center because of the sheer number of people who crowded into the meeting to hear what the corporation had in store for the community. Upon relocating to the larger space, residents still filled the courtroom beyond capacity, lining the walls and clogging the doorway to get an earful of the retail-giant's plans — so packed was the room, that it seems doubtful that any local resident reading this article wasn't already at the meeting that night.

The first public hearing regarding Wal-Mart's site-plan gave residents of Wawarsing — including Ellenville's business owners and residents of Napanoch, the hamlet in which Wal-Mart plans to locate — a chance to get an up-close look at how the big-box retailer will reshape the Napanoch Valley Mall property on Route 209.   >  MORE...

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