Incumbent
Onteora Board Member Cindy O’Connor,
Olive’s top vote getter in district elections May 20,
watches as Shandaken numbers get added in, turning the tide
in favor of a new set of four challengers who will now make
up the school board.
Watershed
Report Card
More City Funds, Training & Better Wages Are The Key To
Safer Water
5/22/2008
By Paul Smart
Quietly ensconced 125 miles away from the political grandstanding
of the Catskills, the results of three new studies of the sprawling
New York City watershed were presented before members of the
New York Academy of Sciences and top city, state and federal
policy wonks at New York University last Thursday, May 15.
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Challengers’ Sweep
Olive Backs Incumbents As Community School Forces Swing The
Old Pendulum
5/22/2008
By Paul Smart
Just as recent
elections have been decided by late-arriving vote numbers coming
in from Olive and Marbletown voters at the Bennett School, the
pendulum-like sweep victory of four challengers to incumbent
Onteora board members Mary Jane Bernholz, Cindy O’Connor
and Rita Vanacore had to wait Tuesday night, May 20, for the
Phoenicia School to provide the final clue as to the district’s
wishes.
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Jar Of Olives...
Cruising Along Back Home
Our Reporter’s Back From The Adriatic
5/22/2008
By
Carol La Monda
We just returned from a sixteen-day journey to the Mediterranean.
I am in serious jet lag and culture shock. Last night,
as I prepared hotdogs with canned chili sauce and sauerkraut,
I realized that Fredericko, our personal waiter, did not
place the napkin in my lap nor push in my upholstered
dining chair in the Michelangelo Lounge of the Grand Princess
cruise ship.
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Ashokan
To Jay & Molly
More For Olive...
5/22//2008
By Paul Smart
The first time fiddler Jay
Ungar saw the Ashokan Field
Campus in Olive during the
winter of 1980, he found
the facility and its setting
in the woods of what was
once Brown’s Station
lovely, but didn’t
think it was quite right
as a permanent home for
his just-started Fiddle
and Dance weekends. He figured
he’d stay a summer
and then find something
better.
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Saving
Habeas Corpus...
Part 3 Of
A Dialogue With The Catskills’
Civil Rights Crusader, Michael
Ratner
5/22/2008
By Gary Alexander
Wheels have been turning
since the first part of
this interview with the
Center for Constitutional
Rights’ president
Michael Ratner began two
issues back and keeping
pace with the vital events
that organization is currently
involved with is unthinkable
in the space we have but
two items can not go unmentioned.
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