An
Opening Reception for the new "Seeking the Sacred”
exhibition of art work by local artists curated by Kate McGloughlin
will take place at the Reservoir United Methodist CHurch on
Route 28 in Ashokan from 3:00 to 5:00 PM on Saturday, March
29. The exhibition, which includes such beautiful works as this
landscape by Linda Sobel, then stays up through May 3rd.
Ready
To Build A Sewer
Town Board Works With Engineers, Gets Ready To Okay Regional
Planning Efforts
3/27/2008
By Charlie Blumstein
It was all suits at the latest Olive Town Board meeting on March
4th to mark two important presentations by the Catskill Watershed
Corporation and the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
relating to the Boiceville sewage treatment project and the
newly forming regional planning collaborative to be comprised
of 6 towns in the Rt. 28 corridor, now being formed by the CCCD.
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Troubles
At Onteora
New Parents Group, Budget Advisory Committee Signal Differing
District Visions
3/27/2008
By Lisa Childers
It’s
been a busy, and somewhat convoluted month for the Onteora School
District. And the coming weeks, starting with a special Info
Session on Middle School plans set for this Thursday, March
27, and a second such event scheduled for Wednesday, April 9,
set for even more activity… including administrative visits
to each of its constituency town’s monthly board meetings
to talk up those same 5-8 plans. has been set.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
A Better Idea
Thoughts About The Coming Tax Rebates
3/27/2008
By
Carol La Monda
My friends call me “thrifty.” My close friends
call me “cheap.” My husband calls me “Ford”
because I am always saying, “I have a better idea.”
When I received my notice from the IRS telling me I may
be eligible for a tax rebate if I show an income of more
than $3000.00 on my tax return, all of these qualities
came into play.nterpreted by someone else.
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The Olivebadger
Fly
Trout Season opens on April
1 with what appears to be
decent conditions. Although
not the popular sport that
once defined the Esopus
Valley, fishing is still
enough of a local allure
to make it front page news...
and a key element in the
local economy. The above
is a local fly created by
the legendary Dettes of
the Roscoe area in honor
of some fishing they once
did in this very town...
City
Playing Nicey-Nice?
One New York Lawsuit Appeal
Dismissed As Second Grows
More Compassionate
3/27//2008
By Paul Smart
According to Olive Town
Supervisor and Catskill
Watershed Corporation Director
Bert Leifeld, things have
been going well with the
town’s ongoing, and
seemingly endless, negotiations
with New York City over
valuation of the Ashokan
Reservoir. And they looked
good on the horizon, as
well.
That’s after even
better tidings appeared
in recent weeks in the form
of a state Supreme Court
justice’s recent dismissal
of a City lawsuit over Olive’s
tax assessment of the Ashokan
Reservoir for the years
2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004
and 2004-2005 that could
have cost Onteora School
District and town taxpayers
over $14 million in back
taxes, if lost.
A
Comprensive Scoping
Taking Climate Change Into
Account As Pro & Opposing
Sides Keep On Spinning
3/27/2008
By Paul Smart
A Scoping Document for
the new environmental
review of the long-pending
Belleayre Resort and state-owned
Belleayre Ski Center expansion
plans — proposed
by former Governor Eliot
Spitzer in a controversial
Agreement in Principal
announced last September
– was finally released
by the state Department
of Environmental Conservation
on February 27, a month
after it was first promised
for release, a couple
of weeks after its informal
release to the private
resort project’s
developers… and
two weeks before Spitzer
left office to be replaced
by current governor David
Paterson..
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