Diane Valden is reporting for The Columbia Paper the opposition to a proposed convenience store and gas station in Craryville appears to be building. Gas wholesaler GRJH, Inc., currently has an application before the Copake Planning Board seeking site plan approval for a new Cobble Pond 3,240-square-foot store with three fuel-dispenser islands on the site of the old Craryville supermarket at State Route 23 and Craryville Road. The planning board heard additional public comments against the project at its September 6 meeting. The public hearing on the proposal has been open since November 2017, and Planning Board Chair Bob Haight said he expects it to remain open for at least two more months. At the most recent meeting, several residents spoke in opposition to the project and the board received written communications from residents who could not attend. Project neighbors have raised serious concerns about the safety of the intersection; worries that the facility will cause an increase in truck traffic and become a truck stop; and, unease over the size and scale of the project and its impact on the hamlet. The company's application is now before the planning board for site plan review. The project has received Board of Health approval and the applicant is awaiting state Department of Transportation approval of the traffic study, which is part of the site work permit needed from the department. Once that is received a complete package will be sent to the Columbia County Planning Board for review. In the meantime, a new group called Save Craryville is emerging. The group was to hold an inform and organize meeting last week. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.