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The story so far: petitions were filed this past year to annex unincorporated parts of Monroe into the Village of KJ.

Now members of United Monroe have filed a petition to annex most of that land into Blooming Grove.

All this comes from a story on News 12:
http://hudsonvalley.news12.com/news/residents-file-petition-to-annex-land-requested-by-kiryas-joel-1.9760924

What isn't clear from the News 12 story is

A) Who owns the land in question?

and

B) Does United Monroe's petition seek to make the land part of unincorporated Blooming Grove, or do they also seek to have it annexed into the Village of South Blooming Grove.

The first question matters because if the land is owned by people connected to KJ, what standing does United Monroe have in the matter?

And If the petition seeks only to move the land into the Town of Blooming Grove, but not the Village of South Blooming Grove, this does nothing to stop KJ from annexing the land into the Village of KJ.  Villages can contain land in more than one town (as is the case with Harriman).

Cuuriouser and curiouser.