Shultis is a town Highway Department worker, a thirty-six-year veteran of the Woodstock Fire Department, and a caretaker for many part-time Woodstock residents.
Globalization and the Internet/telecom/computing revolution together challenge every town, worker and job.
This would represent a town where workers commute from elsewhere or a city where non-household contacts are from within the neighborhood, except at work, where all contacts are from outside.
The Leitners believe their property was flooded, in part, because of an emergency berm that town workers built on the day of the storm to protect houses on a nearby street.
Huntington residents flocked to a town board meeting Oct. 19 to question a decision to have some town workers collect leaf bags while others were overwhelmed and shorthanded dealing with storm problems.
"Everybody's talking about Bayrou; they like him because he's not on the left or the right," a town-hall worker says of the centrist who has stormed up the polls.
His politics were forged in Flint, Michigan, where his father was a car worker in a town of car workers, and it was where he made his first film, Roger & Me, about the devastating impact of General Motors' decision to shift jobs overseas.
"Pound Ridge really does have a diversity that really is wonderful, but we're not going to have it long if we don't provide a way for our valuable town workers to live here".
It was during this time, the Leitners contend, that town workers erected a six-to-eight-inch high dirt berm along the eastern edge of Wildwood Road, which runs along the hillside above their house.
Town workers tending parks with blowers.
