ISN’T IT LOVERLY... the wonderous bursting
out of apple and other blossoms come May, accompanied by a bit
of warmth, birdsong, and then all of a sudden everywhere you
look it’s nothing but green, green and more green!
The
Dogs’ Day In Court
Local SPCA Case Called Politicized By Olivebridge Dogowner’s
Neighbors
5/7/2009
By Paul Smart
Brian Shapiro was quick to pass on the news about two lost puppies
early this week. After all, his press releases regarding an
Olive man’s arrest on animal cruelty charges involving
18 dogs he’d been breeding and keeping in a 15 foot by
5 foot barn room had hit pay dirt, with major stories in all
the local press, including WAMC-FM public radio.
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School
Board Vote
Budget Lower Than Contingency, No Race For Candidates,
But Turnout Crucial
5/7/2009
ByLisa Childers & Phoenicia Times Staff
On Tuesday, May 19, Onteora voters head to the ballot
booths set up at each of the district’s four elementary
schools (with West Hurley opening for the event), from
2 to 9 PM, to pass a new school budget for the coming
year, elect three school board members from three candidates
on the ballot (with rumors of a fourth and possible
fifth write-in candidacy unconfirmed as of presstime),
and give the thumbs up or down to a pair of ballot initiatives
asking for new transportation vehicles and the shiftiung
of funds from a capital balance to cover costs for the
high school’s in-progress auditorium renovation.
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THE
BEST OF MONTY PYTHON, a Dinner
Theater Extravaganza by the Listen To Me
Youth Theater, will be unfolding at the
Phoenicia Parish Hall- MAY 15 &16 at
8pm and May 17 at 1pm & 6pm. Get there
early for food!
Wreaking
Rural Havoc
Food Safety Questions Keep Rising With The
Recent Incidence Of Swine Flu
5/7/2009
By Gary Alexander
Lawmakers who have been surprised, even
slightly shaken, by the public response
to this season’s grumbling “food
safety” bills, have launched what
Walter Olson, at his always-fun “Overlawyered”
website, calls an “aggressive campaign
of reassurance” to defend the Food
Safety Modernization Act of 2009 or, as
another internet wag calls it... the Consumer
Product Safety Improvement Act of Food.
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The
Esopus Is Dying
Invasive Algae Takes Over Creekbed As Worries
Build About Saving Tributaries
5/7/2009
By Paul Smart
Is the Esopus Creek, long fabled as one
of modern trout fishing’s historic
spawning grounds, now destined to become
a dead zone for the browns, brookies and
rainbows that once drew Babe Ruth and hosts
of other flyfishermen and women to its shores?
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Spring Is Finally Here!
5/7'2009
By Carol LaMonda
Spring has sprung. Or is it sprang? Surely
it is not springed! Have you noticed that
our American version of Standard English has
morphed into a hybrid of Babel as a result
of texting, advertising, and general abuse?
OMG, me and my BFF were commenting and LOL
at some of the butchered language we see and
hear. I hope you recognize that last sentence
as a tongue-in-cheek commentary of what has
become all-too-common communication. Times,
they are a-changing! Even an international
broadcasting company whose logo ends in a
double consonant had a headline that read,
“Nickle and Diming us to Death.”
OMG! The English teacher in me wants to red-pencil
newspapers and send them back to the editor.
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