MOTHER'S
DAY... The weather starts to warm up enough to allow our moms
some time for sunning. Then they begin to beam. And finally,
we are reminded, as always, why we love them so... Happies to
all our maternal watchers this Sunday!
Watching
The Streams Flow
First Ashokan Watershed Conference Stresses Better Stewardship
For All
5/6/2009
By Cindy Johansen
The first annual Ashokan Watershed Conference was
held on Saturday, May 1 at the Belleayre Mountain
Overlook Lodge. Funded by New York City Environmental
Protection and hosted by the Ashokan Watershed Stream
Management Program, Ulster County Cornell Cooperative
Extension and Ulster County Soil & Water Conservation
District, the conference focused on floodplain and
stormwater management for municipalities, commercial
and homeowner concerns. Approximately 65 to 70 people
were in attendance with the majority (by a show
of hands) being homeowners, alongside a good representation
from local town, zoning and planning boards.
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Keep
On Trucking, Now
Three Days Of Music & Peace Unfold Stress Free
With Good Times Flowing
5/6/2009
By Dakota Lane
With all the freak natural and unnatural tragedies
of the last few weeks- earthquakes and oil spills,
broken water mains and ash over Europe - there was
one freak thing that turned out beautifully...
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A
Jar Of Olives...
May Day! May Day!
4/8/2010
By Carol LaMonda
Gardening can be dangerous to your health, especially
if one is clumsy. I went to pull one little weed, tripped
on a rock, pitched forward and used my right hand to
break my fall. LITERALLY. X-rays confirmed what I already
knew when I saw my wrist and hand were headed in different
directions. I will know tomorrow if a titanium plate
is required in surgery
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School
Vote May 18
No Board Races, But A Tough Budget Still
Needs Support To Save Programs
5/6/2009
By Lisa Childers
Voters in the Onteora School district
will go to the polls Tuesday, May 18.
Two propositions will be put before
district voters, the first of which
is the budget for the coming school
year. The second proposition will be
to approve a seven-passenger vehicle.
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WENDY
DROLMA, known for her
art as well as her craft,
is opening a new studio/gallery
featuring her great masks,
long a key element in
Cirque de Soleil productions,
on the Boardwalk in Phoenicia,
behind 60 Main Street,
with a reception on Saturday,
May 15 from 7:00 PM on.
Be there... and be ready
for some great costuming,
maybe even personality
shifts...
Dual
Tracks On Fracking
DEC's Final Approach
to Statewide Gas
Drilling Regs Draws
Mixed Reception
5/6/2009
By Brian Powers
After months of pressure
from environmental groups
and the City of New
York, state regulators
announced April 23 that
applications for natural
gas drilling in the
city's watershed, along
with another smaller
one outside Syracuse,
would be excluded from
a pending statewide
environmental review
process now expected
to be in place by the
end of the year. Instead,
Department of Environmental
Conservation Commissioner
Pete Grannis announced
that within these two
watersheds "there
must be an additional
review process which
may result in associated
regulatory and other
controls on drilling."
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