[CPEO-IRF] The Plattsburgh Air Force Base (NY) story

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PLATTSBURGH PROVES THERE CAN BE LIFE AFTER CLOSURE

BY JOE LO TEMPLIO
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
August 28, 2005

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - When leaders in Plattsburgh first heard the local 
Air Force base would be closing, they felt physically ill.

"It was like getting punched right in the stomach. It was a sick 
feeling," said Mark L. Barie, who was chairman of the Plattsburgh 
Chamber of Commerce when the base was slated for closure in 1993.

It was a situation with which municipal leaders from the towns 
surrounding Fort Monmouth, targeted last week by the Base Realignment 
and Closure commission for closure, can now sympathize. And as officials 
in Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls prepare for an uncertain 
future, officials near the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base have some 
words of advice:

"Don't waste time thinking you are going to fight the decision, because 
it just isn't going to happen," said Garry Douglas, President and CEO of 
the Plattsburgh-North Country Chamber of Commerce.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS/508280414

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