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It appears South Blooming Grove's "missing mayor" has been found.

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Mayor George Kalaj spoke to Mid-Hudson News this week and was pictured online touring a new kosher grocery store that’s opening up in the village.&nbsp;

He told the publication that he has a “personal life” and “obligations,” and has been in “close contact” with his “great” staff.&nbsp;

Kalaj's personal Instagram page shows photos of the mayor in Albania that were posted Dec. 13 and Jan. 22.&nbsp;

During the interview, Kalaj didn’t say where he’s been or why he’s allegedly missed the past four board meetings. He also hasn’t returned News 12's requests for information after residents reached out last week saying he’s been absent from his duties.&nbsp;

Kalaj would not answer Mid-Hudson News’ questions about a county lawsuit against the village after board members allegedly approved the building of an illegal road on county park property.&nbsp;

He did acknowledge in that interview, however, that work is continuing at the Clovewood housing development site despite six stop-work orders by the state, adding the village engineer is working closely with the DEC.

The next village board meeting is Feb. 13. It's unclear if Kalaj plans on being in attendance.

Mayor George Kalaj spoke to Mid-Hudson News this week and was pictured online touring a new kosher grocery store that’s opening up in the village. 

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Well, the weekend I could smell it already Addison. But so is the storm that's brewing right on the horizon? What are we looking at in terms of those weekend plans? Is it gonna be a washout? Thankfully not Nikita, I think uh weekend plans should go on. No problems whatsoever for Saturday, Sunday. Not so much, right? Not so much. Let me just go ahead and step aside. You can see what I'm talking about because Sunday right here is something to stand out as a day that we have to be maybe staying inside versus going out and about especially for the evening hours, 100% chance right there for seeing rain Saturday though dry, I think even Saturday night as well. First part of Sunday before noon, I think dry as well. Then after that all bets are off for you trying to stay dry and be outside because here is what you can be expecting for Sunday to Monday. A storm system moving on this way, giving us batches of moder to heavy rain at times, gusts could go 30 to 50 plus MPH. So there may be some isolated flood concerns depending upon where you are in the Hudson Valley area. Those usual lowly air, they get a little bit of some rain can sometimes see some flooding. Yeah, you know those spots. So moving towards your Futurecast 930 in the morning on Sunday, since Saturday will be gorgeous. Let's go towards Sunday. We start the day off with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There's a system in question coming on in from the west going towards lunchtime, still looking pretty good. Just have rain showers just on our doorstep afterwards though, towards 2 to 4 o'clock, here comes the rain light to moderate at first, just more scattered showers than anything else. But see these yellow lines, those are called Isobars lines of equal pressure. The more of them we have and we're closely tight to get tacked together, shows us a strong windfield. We're gonna be seeing wind gusts coming out of a south westerly direction around 20 to 30 MPH sustained gusts going higher than that toss in some moderate to heavy downpours and may get some brief gusts of 40 to 50 plus MPH that time frame right there towards three o'clock in the morning or so. Our system starts to pull away from us after Monday morning's commute, but we can still nonetheless deal with some gusts going on in towards o'clock. You see 3040 plus MPH, even maybe some spots close to 50 as you look out there for that rainfall potential. It's gonna be adding on up, maybe about 1 to 2 injuries or so. But we're gonna be seeing on storm system that's all the way on the west coast head over this way over time. But for the time being, it's just cold out there, we have to deal with temperatures running a little bit below average for the rest of the night. Tomorrow starts improving and then we see temperatures in the fifties and rising after that with the rain chances as well.

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Mayor George Kalaj's personal Instagram page shows photos of the mayor in Albania that were posted December 13th and January 22nd. 



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'Missing mayor' seemingly returns to South Blooming Grove

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New developments. In a story you saw first here on News 12 about a missing mayor and controversial construction project in Orange County south blooming grove. Mayor George collage spoke to mid Hudson News earlier this week and was pictured touring a new kosher grocery store in the village. He told the publication that he has quote personal life and other obligations but remains in contact with his staff collage did not say where he's been or why he has apparently missed the past four board meetings. He also has not returned our calls for information about his alleged absences. He would not answer mid Hudson news questions about a county lawsuit against the village after they allegedly built an illegal road on county park property. Collage says work continues at clove wood housing development site despite six stop work orders by the state. He said in that interview, the village engineer is working closely with the D. E. C.

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