 THANK
HEAVEN! Even with this past week’s storm, the
local deer herd’s been quite pleased at all that’s
been available for them where once snow covered everything edible...
Inching
Towards A Budget
Onteora Starts Hinting At New Spending Plan While Looking
Back At Past Faults
2/13//2008
By Lisa Childers
At the Onteora School Board’s January 29 meeting in
Woodstock, it’s last given the postponement of this
week’s Tuesday night gathering due to impending snow,
Assistant Superintendent of Business Victoria McLaren presented
a preliminary budget with a projection of a three-year spending
average as requested by the board.
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Scoping
It Correctly?
DEC Says Resort Review Blueprint Will Be Worth
The Wait... For Some, At Least
2/14/2008
By Paul Smart
Expect a Scoping Document for the proposed Belleayre Resort
and state-owned ski center’s expansion to be arriving
in the coming week, if not tomorrow.
According to DEC Spokesperson Yancey Roy, the blueprint for
the upcoming environmental review was delayed from its original
February 1 release date, “based on the volume of comments,”
and no specific timetable for the document’s completion
has been set.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
We Get To See Our Shadow
So What If We Call Them Woodchucks?
2/14/2008
By
Carol La Monda
Here in Ulster County we call groundhogs, “woodchucks.”
We used to have the mother of all woodchucks living under
the stone foundation of the barn. She was as big as a
beagle. I nicknamed her Olive. I never got close enough
to tell if it was a she or he because our old lab Kahlua
would chase her, and she would escape into her burrow.
Perhaps it was an Oliver. Whatever the gender, I am sure
it saw its shadow. As I write this I am watching the snow
blow sideways. Six more weeks of winter in the Catskills
is an understatement. If only winter would last that long!
I think Olive or Oliver was trying to say, “Hang
in there folks. Somewhere around mid April, two months
from now, winter will be almost over.”
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Ready
For Regionality?
The Push Is On To Find New Ways
To Spend Regional Smart Growth
Funds
2/14/2008
By Olive Press Staff
Reflecting
its new focus on strengthening
the Catskills regional identity
and alliances, The Catskill
Center for Conservation and
Development is trying to form
an alliance of several communities
along the state Route 28 corridor
to hash out ideas for a $500,000
state fund earmarked for the
area.
Peter Manning, Regional Planner
for the regional environmental
organization set to turn 40
next year, has started meeting
with elected representatives
in the towns of Olive, Shandaken,
Middletown and Andes, as well
as the villages of Fleischmanns
and Margaretville, to try and
set up a grass roots collaborative
effort amongst them that will
decide how to best spend the
half million in promised funds.
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Rent-A-
Reverend
2/14/2008
By Paul Smart
Debra Romano, who’s
lived and raised five
kids next to the post
office in Olivebridge
for nearly 15 years, was
getting ready for a busier-than-most
Valentine’s Day
earlier this week. She’d
been back and forth regularly
to the Rosendale Theater
daily, getting ready for
what could be called a
Cupid Conspiracy set for
the big day herself, when
the Hudson Valley and
Catskills was set to get
its premiere of the new
midnight movie sensation
sweeping the country,
albeit in an early evening
screening.
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