Area business people ‘On the Move’
Ulster County Sheriff’s Lt. Abram Markiewicz has been promoted to Detective Lt. following the retirement of Detective Lt. Dirk Budd after 20 years of law enforcement service.
Detective Lt. Markiewicz is a native of Kingston, having graduated from Kingston High School in 1995, Ulster County Community College/SUNY Ulster in 1996 and SUNY Albany in 1997 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice. He was a medic in the U.S. Army Reserve from 19952003.
He joined the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office in March 2000 and was a patrol deputy in the Esopus and Accord substations until late 2007, when he transferred to what is now the Ulster County Family and Child Advocacy Center as an investigator. He was promoted to Detective in 2010 and to Detective Sgt. in 2011. From 2015-2017 he was the supervisor of URGENT. Since January 2017, he has been the commander of uniformed day shift patrols and the security unit, in addition to several secondary assignments.
In addition to being a graduate of the FBI National Academy’s 274th session in December 2018, he is a DCJS certified master instructor and crisis negotiator, among numerous other certifications. He is the current commander of the Ulster County Crisis Negotiation Team and has previously served on the Corrections Emergency Response Team, Ulster County Emergency Response Team and Sheriff’s In-Water Rescue Team. Since 2011 he has held cross-designations by both the United States Marshals Service and United States Department of Homeland Security Investigations. Since 2008 he has also served as treasurer of the Ulster County Deputy Sheriffs’ Police Benevolent Association.
••• Dorothy ‘Annie’ Lawrence has received the 2019 School Bus Driver of the Year Award, which recognizes exceptional service and safety and is issued in conjunction with the Ulster County Traffic Safety Board and Operation Safe Stop, a statewide initiatve that seeks to promote school bus safety through education and enforcement, Acting Ulster County Executive Adele Reiter announced.
In addition, Mark Morano received the 2019 Charles Schaller Award, which recognizes an individual driver who is dedicated to promoting greater traffic safety in his or her community.
Lawrence is an employee of Arthur F. Mulligan/ Birnie Bus, servicing the Kingston City School District under Judith Falcon, Transportation Director.
Morano currently serves as the Assistant Engineer at the NYS Department of Transportation, where he has worked his way up the ranks over the past 49 years, serving for a time as a traffic safety investigator. He is a resident of New Paltz.
Two additional nominees for the School Bus Driver of the Year Award were recognized as runners-up: Larry J. Borelli, Ulster County BOCES; and John Petvai of the New Paltz Central School District.
Corrie Louis has been hired as court clerk by the Saugerties Town Justice Court. Louis attended Elementary and High School in Saugerties, and continues to reside in the village of Saugerties. Louis received her bachelor’s degree from SUNY New Paltz. Louis replaces Rosemary Bach, who previously served as Court Clerk for 45 years.
Two providers recently joined Health Quest Medical Practice’s primary care location in the Kingston Plaza.
A family medicine physician, Dr. Umara Saleem has been serving the Kings- ton medical community since 2015. She completed the Mid-Hudson Family
Medicine Residency Program at the Institute for Family Health in September and received the program’s Excellence in Pediatrics award.
Saleem of Kingston, is a summa cum laude graduate of American University of Antigua with a doctorate in medicine. A certified lactation consultant, she also volunteers with O+ in Kingston.
Also new to the practice is family nurse practitioner Maryanne Lyons. She spent two decades as a registered nurse, then completed her master’s degree in nursing from Newburgh-based Mount Saint Mary’s College.
Lyons, of Gardiner, has spent the bulk of her career at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown.
••• Michelle F. Rider, of Catania, Mahon, Milligram & Rider, has joined the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. board of directors. Rider joined Catania, Mahon, Milligram & Rider, PLLC, a law firm based in the Hudson Valley, as a partner in 2009. She currently practices in business and corporate law, health law and estate and succession planning.
Rider recently completed her tenure on the Board of Trustees of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, where she served as chair during the hospital’s affiliation negotiations with the Montefiore Health System. She currently serves on the Ulster Savings Bank Board of Trustees.
••• The New York Association of Convenience Stores announced that Mickey Jamal of CPD Energy Corp. in New Paltz N.Y., will receive the 2019 NYACS John MacDougall Leadership Award at the association’s May 16 Chairman’s Banquet in Syracuse.
The award is presented annually to the individual or company who best demonstrates success in the convenience store business, industry leadership, a commitment to relationship building, and active involvement in the association.
Jamal is the founder and CEO of CPD Energy Corp., a network of several hundred gas stations and convenience stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
He has served on the association’s board of directors for 18 years, including one as chairman and is a member of the New York Convenience Store Hall of Fame.
Jamal and his family came to the U.S. from Jordan in 1969, and 10 years later he opened his first Chestnut Market convenience store in New Paltz. Three of his five brothers (Sam, Cal and Sal) are partners in CPD Energy with him.
He currently serves on the boards of the National Association of Shell Marketers and the SUNY New Paltz Foundation.
••• Sonya K. Smith, Director of Graduate Admissions at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been named Vassar’s new Dean of Admissions.
Smith has worked in admissions for nearly two decades and has been at Princeton since 2013. Before assuming her current role in 2017, she was on the undergraduate admissions office’s senior leadership team as the Associate Dean and Director of Diversity Outreach. Before coming to Princeton, Smith worked at Stanford University as Assistant Dean for Admissions, overseeing alumni volunteer relations, and had a stint on the marketing and communications team.
Smith was selected for the post at Vassar following a nationwide search after current Dean of Admissions and Student Financial Services Art D. Rodriguez announced he was leaving at the end of the school year. She will begin her new job on July 1.
••• Rebecca M. Blahut of Staatsburg and Robert C. Grieco of Esopus will be honored at The Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley’s annual Professional Advisors Breakfast on May 21 in Poughkeepsie.
Blahut is a partner at McCabe & Mack, LLP in Poughkeepsie. A graduate of the Mississippi College of Law, she specializes in elder law, guardianships, estate and special needs planning as well as trust and estate administration.
She is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Hudson Valley Estate Planning Council, the Dutchess County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Mid-Hudson Women’s Bar Association. She has served on numerous boards and committees for nonprofits in Dutchess County and currently serves as a Trustee for the Anderson Center for Autism, and as first vice chair for Anderson Center Services.
Grieco is a partner at Matthews & Grieco in Kingston. Practicing law since 1982, Grieco has worked in the city of Kingston since 1995. His areas of practice include residential and commercial real estate, estate planning, estate probate and business/ corporate law.
Grieco has served as the sitting town justice of Esopus since 2001. He is a member
of the American, New York, and Ulster County Bar Associations; and has been on the Ulster County Bar Association Board of Directors in varying capacities since 2007. She and his wife Karyn will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this summer, and have two adult sons.
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