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News 12 (your best information source after Newses 1 through 11)
reports:

Kiryas Joel proposes creating new village

KIRYAS JOEL - Lawmakers in the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel are now proposing to create a new village, tripling its current size.

Kiryas Joel Village Trustee Jacob Freund says the new plan would create the new village of Glilos Kiryas Joel and develop 1,140 acres surrounding Kiryas Joel. Freund says they will not need local or state approval to start their own village.

"We don't want to take over," says Freund. "We are here to be in peace with our neighbors." Freund says the law states a community with 500 people is allowed to create 

Emily Convers, who runs the anti-annexation group United Monroe, opposes the plan. Convers accuses the village of threatening its neighbors and vows to fight the new proposal.

Kiryas Joel released a statement urging homeowners to wait for the outcome of the state approval process.

Is the Uncle saying this isn't going to happen?  Not quite, but I would remind you that KJ has been making "New Village" noises for years now.

Back on July 11, 2004 KJ’s attorney Dennis Lynch announced that KJ was going to form a new village of their own in Woodbury, Monroe or Blooming Grove, and that it would be done in record time.

I'm not sure what record he was going for, but I doubt that he broke it.

The problem for KJ then, as now, is that the powers that be there are paranoid about creating a new power center that they don't directly control.  Maybe they've worked that out, but, as I say, we've heard this song before.

Keep tuned, same bat sh*t time, same bat sh*t station.