 FINALLY...
Some old-style snow fell before the big MLK ski weekend, but
would it be enough over the coming years to maintain a winter
ski season in the Catskills?
Climatic
Discrepancies
State Warns Of Warming Trends On One Hand, Pushes Skiing On
The Other
1/17//2008
By Paul Smart
Climate change and the way it’s getting double-speak
from government officials, including our own state’s,
gets an accidental highlighting in the coming weeks as folks
gather around the nation to discuss what needs to be done
to lessen the pending disaster, physical and economic, of
global warming on the one hand. And on the other, as folks
continue to trumpet the state’s decision to increase
its investment in winter sports in the Catskills via both
the annual Belleayre Snowball, honoring Governor Elliot Spitzer
January 26, and the state-owned ski resort’s fifth annual
Winter Festival Week, slimmed down to five days of discounts
for the year.
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Let
Yourself Be Heard
January 26 Community Forum Set To Hear All Sides Of Onteora’s
Middle School Plans
1/17/2008
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora school district community is encouraged to attend
a forum at the middle/high school on Saturday, January 26 from
11am to 2pm. This is the time for the public to weigh in on
issues around the future of the district, but discussions will
be limited to the school board’s proposed five-through-eight
middle school model, and not necessarily it’s overall
costs, or ties to the closure of an ONteora elementary school,
likely to be Bennett at present.
“The forum will solely be for the two options,”
said OCS Superintendent Leslie Ford, noting that other comments
would be accepted only in written form.
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Chipping
Away At Deceit
Olive English Teacher Takes On The War, Interviewing Scott
Ritter In Her Classroom
1/17/2008
By Gary Alexander
Only the school’s principal and the class he had arrived
to address had been apprised of his visit as the burly man
in neat civilian garb approached the station of U.S. Marine
recruiters in the hallway of Coxsackie-Athens High School
and the astonished marines snapped a wide-eyed salute to
the intruder. He returned the salute wordlessly, without
breaking stride, leaving the recruiters still standing at
attention as he passed on to enter a classroom further down
the hall.
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News
Update: Maurice Hinchey was quoted
addressing the results of an Agreement in
Principal brokered and announced by Governor
Eliot Spitzer as being "much too intense"
and talking of the Belleayre Resort’s
claims for regional economic development as
benefiting only "the investors and a
few others."
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Trail
Mix Concert’s next
concert is at 2:30 PM on Sunday,
January 20, when Jason Cutmore
performs an ambitious program
of everything from Schubert
to Messiean and Poulenc at the
Olive Free Library in West Shokan.
Reservations should be made
early; his playing’s a
treat!
Spitzer’s
Deal Questioned
Belleayre Resort
& Expansion Scoping Ends
As First Lawsuit Cries ‘Unfair!’
1/17/2008
By Paul Smart
The battle over what the basic
“scoping” parameters
governing the State Environmental
Quality Review Act’s review
of Dean Gitter’s proposed
Belleayre Resort is now officially
over, with state Department
of Environmental officials stating
that around 250 written comments
had been received by the agency
as of its January 14 deadline.
But the January 3 filing of
an Article 78 lawsuit against
Governor Eliot Spitzer and various
partners involved in his “Agreement
in Principal” for project
approvals involving state tie-ins
to its Belleayre Ski Center
holdings suggests not only deepening
opposition to what was only
a few months ago being depicted
as a shoo-in, but also a possible
scuttling of the entire process,
if allowed to proceed.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Today Is A Gift To Share
1/17/2008
By Carol La Monda
My resolutions this year are not
the usual ones about losing the
same twenty (or is it thirty?)
pounds I resolved to lose last
year or about getting more physical
exercise. In fact, I had to dust
the exer-cycle that is parked
right next to my pile of un-ironed
ironing. I did buy a new Rowenta
iron this year, but I have not,
as yet, taken it out of its packaging.
So much for those self-improvements!
I am too busy living today to
make up for my shortcomings of
yesterday.
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