 Onteora's
faculty basketball all-stars took on the Harlem Wizards
Saturday, Dec. 1, with a home court advantage and the cheers
of almost 650 fans. The event, according to organizer Sylvia
Tinti of the Middle School-High School PTSO, raised money for
the Middle School Science Fair, the Belleayre Bash, academic
awards, and other activities...
Road
Issue To A Head
Town Readies For Appeals Push Against City For Reopening Of
Monument Road
By
Gary Alexander
The Article 78 lawsuit which Olive brought against New York
City in an effort to re-open one of its most picturesque roads
will wrap up by the end of the month, according to the town’s
attorney in charge of the case, Delice Seligman. All of the
papers are scheduled to be filed with State Supreme Court Judge
Christopher E. Cahill by December 28th for a decision upon the
opposing arguments.
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Help
Is On Its Way
Catskill Watershed Corp Decides To Take On New York’s
Tax Lawsuits
12/62007By
Olive Press Staff
The Catskill
Watershed Corporation (CWC) Board of Directors has declared
that unresolved tax assessment litigation brought by New York
City against upstate municipalities where the city owns dams,
land and buildings is “the most serious issue presently
facing the towns in the (City’s) West of Hudson Watershed.”
In a resolution adopted at its November 27 meeting, the CWC
Board urges a “global settlement” of current lawsuits,
and requests that the City sit down to “discuss agreement
on valuation methodologies so that future lawsuits might be
avoided.”
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Master
Planning The Plans
Onteora Hires New Consultants To Check On What Other Consultants
Have OKed
12/6/2007
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora school board approved Advisory Solutions of
the New York State School Boards Association to help design
the Master Plan for the district at a cost of up to $42,000
at its November 27 school board special meeting, with Superintendent
Leslie Ford explaining that the group will help determine
which building, either Bennett Elementary or the High School,
would best hold grades five-through-eight when the district
reconfigures in the coming years. Also looked into will
be a possible redistricting.
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Winter
Walk
The
neighboring town of Woodstock’s
annual Open House evening takes
place this Friday, December
7 from 5 PM to around 7. There’s
a host of things happening...
be sure and stop by and see
who else is showing up this
year!
Scoping
Time... Again
DEC Sets First Steps In New
Resort Plan Review Process For
December 10, 11
12/6/2007
By Paul Smart
Talk about Déjà
vu… It’s the end
of another year, with the first
snow bringing a nice holiday
cheer to local homes, and what
suddenly rounds the corner just
as everyone’s getting
into a lazy, armchair-sitting
mood for the holidays? Move
aside Santa Claus and howdy
do Dean Gitter… or at
least that giant Belleayre Resort
project he’s been pushing
towards reality for over seven
years now.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
‘Tis The Season
12/6/2007
By Carol La Monda
Peggy Stohr and husband Jerry
are snowbirds who left for Florida
just days before our first snowfall.
She will be reading The Olive
Press online. Enjoy that sunshine,
Peggy! Today that same snow was
my catalyst to gear up for the
holiday season.
Hanukkah has begun and Christmas
is three weeks away. Those are
the religious holidays that often
get lost in the blitz of commercialism
and glitz of decorations. The
“holiday” of frantic
shopping and insane decorating
started the second we made that
turkey sandwich with mayo on Thanksgiving
night. I swear that store personnel
must have been put on overtime
to obliterate all that is orange
and replace it with green and
red and silver and gold.
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