TIME
TO HUNKER DOWN... If you haven’t got your woodpile
in shape yet, you may be facing some chill times ahead. Read
our story on the rising wood market below. And prepare!
Almost
Sewer Time...
Boiceville Wastewater Treatment System Gets
$2.2 Million In Extra Funding!!!
11/20/2008
By Paul Smart
A year and a half since its approval, the long-awaited Boiceville
Wastewater Treatment system is gearing up to begin construction
next Spring by getting final updates on its funding in place
so bids for actual work can be sorted through and accepted in
the coming weeks.
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What’s
The OCS Effect?
School Board Mulls 2009 Budget Choices; Reschedules Meetings
To Fulfill Agendas
11/20/2008
By Lisa Childers
What kind of impact the current financial crisis could have
on the Onteora school district budget has been one of the key
topics of discussions at recent OCS Board meetings, which have
moved to an earlier 6:00 PM start time to accommodate lengthening
agendas.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Holidays Collide
11/20/2008
By Carol LaMonda
The busiest month of the year stretches from Thanksgiving
to Christmas. It is the month we all get caught up in
the whirlwind of decorating, cooking and shopping. As
Halloween candy sits on shelves at 50 to 75% off, as
carved pumpkins cave into grotesque faces, as grocery
stores are featuring turkeys and cranberry sauce, retailers
begin gearing up for the gift-giving season. The browns
and oranges of Halloween and Thanksgiving meet the reds
and greens of Christmas and the blues of Hannukah. The
result is collision of traditions that sometimes exhaust
us leaving us pale with holiday shock.
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Wood
Costs Are Rising...
DEC Regulations Crimp Local
Woodlot Sales As More Turn
To Alternative Heat
11/20/2008
By Paul Smart
Feeling the cold? Paid (as
opposed to paying) a bit
too much for oil or gas
this season?
Time to think wood…
although to hear it from
the major firewood suppliers
in the region, if you’re
only now thinking of getting
some cords in, you may be
quiate a bit on the late
side.
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Opening
Day of deer season hit
the region on Saturday, November
15th, and from the looks of
this catch on Sunday the hunters
are doing well. Last year New
York hunters harvested approximately
220,000 deer, a 16 percent increase
over the previous season. The
Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) anticipates
a slight increase in buck take
and total deer take again for
2008. The Season runs until
Dec. 7th.
Albany’s
Razor Dance
Special Session Yields Nothing
Now As Bonacic Muses On Belleayre’s
Chances
11/20/2008
by Paul
Smart
As Senator John Bonacic put
it a couple hours after it all
started, this past Tuesday’s
Special Session of the state
legislature was a first…
Governors just don’t call
people back to Albany to consider
cutting a state budget with
four months left in its life.
And they definitely don’t
NOT submit a formal bill for
an up or down vote when pulling
senators and assemblyman to
such a gathering, as happened
November 18.
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