Siobhan
Scanlan, Cindy Van Buren and Sheila Burnham look on
as Maureen Odenwald draws the winning raffle ticket at last
week's fundraiser at Davis Park. Dan Uttendorfer of the Pontiacs
provides the drum roll and rim shot. The idea was to raise funds
for Odenwald’s cancer treatments.
GOP
Sets A Full Slate
Freidel Challenges Leifeld For Town’s Top Spot Yet Unable
To Attend Caucus
8/13/2009
By Olive Press Staff
With about 60 registered Republicans present, the Olive GOP
endorsed a full slate of candidates for the upcoming local election
at their caucus this week. Leading the way will be Town Councilman
Peter Freidel, who has announced his run against longtime Town
Supervisor Berndt Leifeld.
It was a straightforward caucus session at the Olivebridge Firehouse
Tuesday, where it was announced that Freidel was unable to attend
because he was at the town board meeting 10 miles away in Shokan
that evening.
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Is
Crossroads Gambling?
Spitzer-Gitter Deal On The Ropes
Over Forest Land Appraisal Issue
8/13/2009
By Brian Powers
Counsel for developer Crossroads Ventures effectively
told Ulster County legislators that the company is prepared
to scrap its proposed project now 10 years into its
review, and instead develop 1,215 acres on Belleayre
Mountain… unless the legislature helps them get
the price they want from the State to buy that acreage
for the Forest Preserve.
“It’s not a threat,” said attorney
Anthony Bucca, speaking before a well-attended special
meeting of the county’s Public Works and Capital
Projects Committee in the legislative chamber on August
7. “But you have to realize this is a business…
If we don’t get the appraised value we want, then
we’re going to build.”
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Redistricting
Rises Again
Onteora Mulls A New MS Principal’s Leaving, Plus
Shifting Primary Grade Numbers
8/13/2009
By Lisa Childers
After only one year with the Onteora Central School
District, Middle School Principal Andrew Davenport resigned
late last month, the second resignation for the position
in two years. He will now be neighboring Rondout Valley
School District’s new high school principal, where
sources say he will be paid $108,135 a year, versus
$100,000 as Onteora’s Middle School principal.
At the August 4 school board meeting at the Middle/High
School, Superintendent Leslie Ford said the board had
a choice on how they wish to move forward.
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Rain,
Rain Go Away...
So Just How Wet Has It Been? Very.
Worse, This Seems To Be The Future
8/13/2009
By Paul Smart
Mid August and the sky’s clouding
over again… but no matter. Given
the downpours of the season so far, which
have hit all but two of the events so
far, nothing seems too bad now. Sure,
some things’ll get cancelled again
or, like a few weeks back when tornado
warnings accompanied the rain, everyone
might just choose to sit in their cars
an hour or so before doing whatever they
want to do. Or they’ll just get
rained on.
Same goes, according to NYSD Department
of Environmental Conservation Region 3
spokeswoman Wendy Rosen-bach, with such
local campgrounds as those at Wilson State
Park, Woodland Valley, or North/South
Lake and Devil’s Tombstone in neighboring
Greene County. Numbers have held steady
all season, despite the weather
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Mount
Tremper Arts is augmenting its
usual schedule of dance, musical and theatrical
performances with its 2nd visual arts exhibition,
The Noble Savage and the Little Tramp, curated
by artist/photographer Hannah Whitaker,a
response to the economic times. For more
info, visit www.mounttremperarts.org or
just stop by their home on old 28 any time
on the weekend.
A
Jar Of Olives...
Technoligically Impaired...
8/13/2009
By
Carol La Monda
Congratulations to Nick Burgher who, following
the paternal side of his family, graduated
from Paul Smith’s with an Associate
of Applied Science degree in surveying technology.
He also completed a certificate in GIS,
Geographic Information Systems. Now, GIS
is allied to but different from GPS. My
husband has one of those gadgets that sounds
like a strange woman is traveling with us
giving us step by step directions: mostly
she says, “When possible make a legal
U-turn.” Driving home from Sagandaga,
I began to ponder the long list of technological
gadgets that did not exist a decade ago.
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