REGIONAL – School districts in the Shawangunk Journal readership area — including Ellenville, Pine Bush and Rondout Valley — all voted in their proposed budgets for the 2012-2013 school year by sizeable margins on Tuesday, May 15. In concurrent elections for board seats in each district, there were no surprises... except for the unseating of a veteran incumbent in Pine Bush, where a popular newcomer came on board with the district's highest vote count.

Voting turnout was light in all cases, a trend that's been growing in recent years, and corresponds with a shrinking of school attendance over the past decades.  > MORE