Red Hook Village Mayor Karen Smythe has appointed Amy Smith, the Library Director for the Dover Plains Library and a grant writer for the Red Hook Central School District, to fill the trustee seat recently vacated by Steven Appenzeller. The appointment, announced in a letter to the Village Clerk, means that for what is believed to be the first time in memory, the Village Board will be run entirely by women. The appointment comes just two weeks after the Village elections, in which Deputy Mayor Melkorka Kjarval secured re-election and political newcomer Frances Uku also won a seat, defeating three...

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