The towns of Coeymans and Catskill are saying goodbye to long-time civil servants as Gregory Darlington and Alfred “Alfie” Beers retired recently as police chief and highway superintendent, respectively. Bryan Rowzee in the Ravena News-Herald reports Darlington worked more than 25 years with the Coeymans Police Department, seven as police chief. He started in August, 1986 as a part-time dispatcher, and said he brought about “a full-time, full-service police department, all while the budget went from $1.5 million to just under $600,000.” In Catskill, Jim Planck reports in The Daily Mail, Beers leaving is more complicated. Superintendent for 16 years and with the Highway Department for 36 years, he sent the town a three-page “retirement agreement” on Mon., Oct. 20, opting to leave a year early, with the retirement effective Dec. 31, 2014. From Oct. 16 through the end of the year, according to the agreement, Beers “will work from his home office,” and that his “primary duties and responsibilities will be the administration of the (town’s) closed landfill, and cooperating with the town comptroller in closing out the books of the Highway Fund for fiscal year 2014," according to the report. Catskill will, “establish the office of Deputy Town Superintendent of Highways,” and Beers agrees not to appoint anyone to it, which allows the town board to make the appointment.