At
the Ulster BOCES Child Care Center, preschool students
have been getting a glimpse into the future and a peek into
the past as part of ́The Rearview Mirrorî project, an eight-week
class that included visits to the Automotive Technology garage.
Here kids from Rhinebeck, Kingston, and Port Ewen observe Onteora
High School senior Steven Rivenburgh as he explains automotive
technology at the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center.
Making
Things Happen
Collaborative Meeting Eyes New Efforts To Revive Catskill
Interpretive Center
4/9/2009
By Charlie Blumstein
The recently completed Town Hall in Andes was the
location of the March meeting of the Central Catskills
Collaborative (CCC), a group of representatives from
seven municipalities along the NYS Rt. 28 corridor.
The CCC is an inter-municipal coalition formed under
the encouragement of Peter Manning, Regional Planner
of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
(CCCD) in order to protect and promote the assets
of the corridor and advance projects for the economic
benefit of the Central Catskills region. Two members
each from the towns of Hurley, Olive, Shandaken, Middletown,
and Andes, and the villages of Fleischmanns and Margaretville,
have been meeting on the fourth Thursday of each month
in the various member towns to advance a regional
dialogue and take action to develop a regional identity
which can be used to gain a stronger footing when
negotiating various issues with the state or other
large entities... and seeking funding for local projects.
Continue>>>
A
Mighty Tight Budget
Ford’s OCS Budget Comes In Under Contingency,
Sparking Board Discord
4/9/2009
By Lisa Childers
Recent weeks at Onteora have been marked by budget talks,
and this week’s announcement by current school
board president Maxanne Resnick that she would not be
seeking a second term.
The 2009/2010 budget recommendation for the Onteora
Central School district was unveiled at Tuesday night’s,
March 31 Board of Education meeting at the Middle/High
School, when Superintendent Leslie Ford and Assistant
Superintendent for Business Victoria McLaren presented
a 3.50 percent budget increase in spending that falls
below a 3.97 percent contingency budget.
Continue>>>
|
“Yes
We Can’t” is
the name of an abstract
depressionist evening with
Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles
Malkine benefiting Actors
& Writers at the Odd
Fellows Theater, Route 213,
Olivebridge, on April 18.
Call 657-9760 or visit www.actorsandwriters.com.
Mister
Civics
Onteora’s
John
Iannotti
Retires
4/9/2009
By Paul Smart
John Iannotti’s classroom at Onteora
High School is a
treasure trove for
anyone interested
in the movement
of American, New
York, and Ulster
County politics
over the last three
decades.
Speaking at the
end of a school
day in his 29th
year teaching Social
Studies at the Boiceville-based
school, from which
he’s set to
retire at the end
of the current school
year, he noted how
much of the collection
he’d built
since the Carter
years was already
called for…
by both former students
as well as other
faculty members.
Continue>>>
Plant
Those Gardens
As GMO Corporations
Go After Organics,
More & More
Turn To Own
Resources
4/9/2009
By Gary Alexander
Nobody
has to tell you about soaring
food prices. You see them
every time you shop for even
very basic necessities. Food
bills rode the oil price rocket
up but when gas pump numbers
fell, the cost of filling
a shopping bag stayed up there.
This is one reason given for
the perceived leap in the
number of rural gardens being
planned this Spring. Another
is the dire outlook for the
future availability of produce
and the dominance of genetically
engineered (GMO) ingredients
in supermarket produc
Continue>>>
A
Jar
Of Olives...
How Much The Woodchuck?
A Closer Look At The Inanities
Of News
49/2008
By Carol LaMonda
The issue after this will
be published on January 15,
2009. I predict that it will
be one very busy month from
now until then. Even without
an economic meltdown, an auto
industry collapse, and a new
administration at the helm,
December to January is always
a busy month. First we have
to decorate and undecorated
the same space. By mid January
the colorful decorations have
become clutter, and we pack
them away for another year.
We have to bake cookies and
plan holiday meals and then
figure out how to lose the
extra five pounds we gained
during the whirl of holiday
parties.
Continue>>>
|
|
