Andrea Macko reports in The Greenville Pioneer that Greene County Legislator William Lawrence (R-Cairo) says that if Greene County does not build a proposed new jail in Coxsackie, "the State Corrections will most likely close our jail" in Catskill. The Catskill jail is a 108-years-old, and the new Coxsackie facility would cost an estimated $51,700,644. "This would lead to a debt estimate of about $2,700,000 per year less than the cost of boarding out prisoners, which would reduced it to about $1,750,000 per year and increase the cost per thousand of assessed value by 32 cents, or for a $100,000 home, an additional $31.75 per year," Lawrence said. The jail would be on 50 donated acres just south of the Coxsackie State Correctional Facility. A public hearing on the environmental impact of the jail proposal will be held at 6:15 p.m. Oct. 19 just before the Greene County Legislature meets, at 411 Main St. in Catskill.