It
was Junior Olympics time on Saturday, June 13, and
Bennett Elementary ended up winning the districtwide title,
besting Phoenicia and Woodstock in a host of track and field
events. Now it’s on to graduation events in all schools,
with High School Seniors due for theirs on Friday, June 26.
See page 17 inside!
Strung
Along At OCS
Superintendent Ford Comes Under Fire For Considering A Possible
Music Cut
6/18/2009
By Lisa Childers
Dozens of students and parents packed the Bennett Elementary
cafeteria at Tuesday night’s Onteora board of Education
meeting, protesting a possible elimination of the elementary
strings program.
Over the span of two hours, parents and students spoke at length
on the program and how it opened up opportunities to children.
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Poetry
In Boiceville...
A Middle School Class Gets To The Wiliness Of Our
Students’ Creativity
6/18/2009
By By Sparrow
I taught
five poetry-writing workshops at Onteora Middle School
in one day — and lived to tell the tale! All my
students were 8th graders, and they were flexible and
smart. Denise Maltese, the heroic English teacher, was
my sponsor.
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Catskills
Go Global?
World Comes To Us To Study Watersheds, Region Looks
To Climate Change Worries
6/18/2009
By Olive Press Staff
The deal made between New York City and over 50 communities
in the Catskills 12 years ago, an agreement that keeps
New York’s drinking water clean while at the same
time provides cash and programs to watershed dwellers
to help the local economy, has been getting global attention
of late.
Meanwhile, the executive director of the watershed’s
chief regional institution, Alan Rosa of the the Catskill
Watershed Corporation, has said that the chief challenge
now facing the area is similarly global: That of climate
change and its possible effects on local communities
and natural resources.
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The
Burn Laws Return
DEC Open Fires Ban Revision Has Until June
26 For All Public Comments
6/18/2009
By Paul Smart
After one year of review following a series
of statewide public hearings in June, 2008,
the State Department of Environmental Conservation
has released a revised plan for regulating
open burning.
When discussed last Spring, the bans on
burn barrels and brush burning, predicated
by fears of climate change’s effects
on firefighting, as well as shifts in the
state DEC’s ability to keep an eye
on its burn permit process, drew opponents
worrying about the costs of compliance and
supporters noting abuses in their neighborhoods
and the Upstate’s growing shift from
being largely rural to more and more exurban
and even suburban in nature.
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Juda
Leah Selkowitz of Shokan recently
completed her senior project designs and
earned a BFA Summa Cum Laude from the Fashion
Institute of Technology in NYC. The work
is now on view in the gallery of her proud
father, Robert Selkowitz of 3024 Route 28,
Ashokan, and can be viewed by appointment.
A
Jar Of Olives...
Marriage
6/18/2009
By
Carol La Monda
June is the month of weddings and therefore
of anniversaries. Anthropologists tell us
that this month was favored for its warmth;
it allowed the bride and groom to do a full
body bathing as a prelude to the honeymoon.
The custom of a bridal bouquet and the groom’
s boutonniere was additional insurance that
the couple would be rid of the winter’s
accumulative stench. Even in the absence
of good grooming, marriages would last until
that “death do us part phase.”
In today’s wealth of cosmetic aids
and fastidious hygiene, marriages fail at
the alarming rate of one in two. Actually
divorce is gaining statistically over marriages
that stand the test of time. Frankly, that
STINKS!
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