Redistricting Furor
County GOP Takes On Everyone In An Attempt
To Hold On To It's Own Districts
By Jim Gordon
Ulster County Republican party chairman Peter Savago has
filed suit in federal court in Albany seeking to have
a judge declare that the controversial legislative redistricting
plan narrowly adopted by the county legislature last year,
will be used to govern the elections of the 33-member
body in November.
Time
To Fight Fires...
Local Emergency Outfits Seek New Volunteers To
Fill Dwindling Ranks
Last week four of the town's five fire companies
spent approximately nine hours battling a raging barn fire
that started two hours after midnight on a bone-chilling wednesday
morning. Despite the heat from the fire, hose nozzles repeatedly
froze and had to be held beneath a firetruck's exhaust pipe
to thaw.
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Defensive...
A Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown
& Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting
operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a
Defense Department source said last week. KBR was widely viewed
by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate
to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does
extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military, including
the building of the terrorist prisons at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba,
new bases in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in central Asia, and
the running of all food services at bases in Afghanistan.
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THE TENSIONS OF WAR...Students
at Onteora High School joined youth around the world March 5
to protest the Bush Administration's drive to war. But at the
school, others spoke in favor of the same... and throughout
the town, discussion about the grave subject was terse and questioning
all week, with a sense of support for the President... but also
a growing sense of unease about the whole world situation we're
currently in.
Onteora's Budget Crisis
In An Attempt To Deal With State Ed Cuts,
West
Hurley School Set To Close
By Violet Snow
Despite an air of tension, the standing-room-only crowd
in the Onteora High School cafeteria was quiet and orderly
Monday night as Superintendent Hal Rowe outlined to the
school board four options for cutting the budget by reorganizing
classes at the four district elementary schools. Several
West Hurley parents spoke against the proposal that would
save $2 million but would close their school, asserting
its importance to their sense of community, while one parent
expressed opposition to the "Princeton Plan",
which would split lower and upper grades into separate schools
and cut over $1 million from the budget.
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 Handling
The Olive Mail...
Barbara Shultis's 30 Yrs On The Job
By Tree McElhinney
Although 30 years of working for the US Postal Service qualify
her for retirement, Barbara Shultis is not ready to step down
as postmaster of the Olivebridge post office, a position that
she has held since 1986."I finally got in this building
where it's wonderful. I want to enjoy it for a while,"
Shultis said, referring to the post office's new location on
route 213 in what used to be a general store that once sold
everything from coal to feed.
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LOCAL BUSINESS
Jeremy Jordan of TSX T-Shirts, located along
the central strip of the Hudson Valley Mall in Ulster, says
the biggest sellers at the store he works in are things with
rock band logos, especially anything "Metal." He's
spent two days fielding interviews and
photo sessions with the local media, who have been reacting
to the arrest of an Albany attorney for wearing a "Give
Peace A Chance" t-shirt at Crossgates Mall outside of Albany,
which is owned by the same Pyramid Companies that owns Hudson
Valley Mall… and the Poughkeepsie Galleria.
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