In
the recent 2008 Olive Basketball League Championship games,
The Wizards (seen here) beat the Celtics 17-16 in a game everyone
called FUN as well as exciting. The program is for 4th to 6th
grade boys and girls with four teams, all organized by Geno
and Diane Sorbellini. No one expected the winners to squeak
through as they did. Way to go kids!
Two
Slates For OCS
Three Incumbents Face Four Challengers Running Together, Plus
A Current Student
4/24/2008By
Lisa Childers
There are eight candidates vying for four slots in the race
for the Onteora School board election on May 20. School Board
President Mary-Jane Bernholz, Vice President Cindy O’Connor
and Rita Vanacore are the incumbents approaching the end of
their three- year term. According to Bernholz, they are running
as a block for re-election. All three live in the town of Olive.
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Olive
Matters...
What’s Their Stance?
4/24/2008
By Paul Smart
Haven’t
heard recently from Olive Matters, the town-specific voting
bloc that created the Onteora School District’s current
board configuration? That’s not because they’ve
been inactive, according to the ad hoc organization’s
point person, Judith Boggess. They just haven’t been announcing
their meetings in local newspapers or other ways that would
let more than their members know what they’re up to via
e-mails and phone calls.
“We’re getting together this Wednesday to discuss
school board candidates,” Boggess said this week of a
planned April 16 gathering at the Olive Free Library in West
Shokan.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Green, Greener & Greenest - The Signs Of Spring
Are Finally All Around
4/24/2008
By
Carol La Monda
It’s spring when we all come out from hibernation.
There’s already been a bear sighting on Mountain
Road.
One of the sure signs of spring would be the baseball
game. The Babe Ruth League, which consists of kids from
Olive, Hurley, Woodstock, and Shandaken, is busy working
on the field in Davis Park. They will be practicing and
playing most of their games there. The field has been
“spiffed up” with loads of dirt donated by
Olive, the Babe Ruth League and the other towns in the
area. Patrick Murphy said they plan to do an exhibition
game after the Memorial Day Parade in West Shokan to show
off their talent and “new digs.” All we need
is some homemade apple pie to make this a perfect “Slice
of America.”
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Crocuses are blooming in
yards and elsewhere, The
forsythia is out, along
with the daffodils. Redbud
is budding. There’s
even a few people sniffling
and sneezing. What a season
for feverish dreaming..
Farming
Then & Now
Catskills Agriculture Starts
Its Rebirth As Economic &
Energy Trends Start To Shift
4/10//2008By
Charlie Blumstein
While many hold a warm nostalgia
for farming only 2 percent
of us actually practice
what has become the very
basis of our continued existence
here on earth. Farming has
come a long way since our
forebears farmed with horse
and oxen power. Today one
person with a tractor and
other petroleum-fueled farm
machinery can do the work
of forty people. Agricultural
mechanization and petroleum-based
chemical fertilization,
weed and pest control was
made possible only through
the availability of plentiful
cheap petroleum and its
distilled products.
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Saving
Habeas Corpus...
Part 1 of
a Dialogue With The Catskills’
Civil Rights Crusader, Michael
Ratner
4/24/2008
By Gary Alexander
It was the area code and
prefix that set him off,
and you could sense his
eyes glazing for an instant
as he spoke.
“Whenever I hear
the 657 phone code, I
get excited because it
reminds me of how much
I want to go up there
and walk in the woods,”
laughed attorney Michael
Ratner, president of the
Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR). “My
entire fantasy these days
is to try to figure out
how to get up there so
I can take a walk up South
Hollow Road and look at
the water going by.”
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