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Brooke
and Connor Ritchey portray the twins Viola and Sebastian
in a New Genesis youth production of Shakespeare’s delightful
Twelfth Night at 4 PM August 3, 4 and 5 at the outdoor Little
Globe stage on Ashokan Farm in West Shokan...
A
New Look At The Old
Massachusetts Family Brings Historic Olive Photo Collection
To Town Offices
8/2/2007
By Gary Alexander
An historically significant collection of pictures arrived in
Olive on July 17th. This assorted batch of glossies, Thompson
panoramas, booklets and albums were welcomed into the custody
of Olive town clerk Silvia Rozzelle, who has been developing
the modern archives of the villages torn asunder by the monumental
building of the Ahokan Reservoir a century ago.
"A gentleman from eastern Massachusetts contacted me around
the Christmas holidays about some wonderful photographs he had
discovered, which were taken during the construction of the
Ashokan Reservoir," Rozzelle recalled. "Last week,
he, his wife Barbara and his sisters Beverly and Marian took
the four hour drive from Mansfield (Mass.) for the day and brought
the collection."
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The
FAD’s A Finality Now
EPA Counters Upstate Concerns By
Saying Need Outweighs Other Worries
8/2/2007
By Olive Press Staff
Despite upstate protests, the Federal Environmental Protection
Agency has given the City of New York a full ten year waiver
from spending billions to filter its water supply.
“I’ve always thought that New York City has
some of the best water around, and now we’ve got confirmation
from Washington. We’re grateful to the EPA for recognizing
our watershed protection efforts,” said an elated
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “This is a
vote of confidence that will save our city money, and that
we’ll use in our efforts to spread the word to New
Yorkers that you should be drinking tap water instead of
expensive bottled water.”
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Large
Parcel No Vote
Onteora Majority Decides Discussion Of Onerous Law’s
A Waste Of Its Time
8/2/2007
By Paul Smart
The Onteora School Board quickly and efficiently passed
a resolution 5-2 Tuesday night, July 31, once again ducking
a yes or no vote on implementing the Large Parcel law it
faces periodically based on state legislation passed five
years ago.
“Be it hereby resolved that the Board of Education
of the Onteora Central School District will not entertain
a vote on the Large Parcel Legislation, thus sending a clear
message to the New York State Legislature, the Ulster County
Legislature and the Onteora Central School District that
we, the Trustees feel that this type of legislation fractures
the cohesiveness of a school district and that this type
of legislation fractures the cohesiveness of a school district
and that no school district should be involved in political
decisions,” read the resolution, which was also passed
by a split vote last year under the same wording.
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The
historic Phoenicia Hotel suffered
irreperable damage in a July
28 midnight fire fought by nine
local companies. An arson investigation
is now underway. The place was
uninsured.
A
Jar Of Olives...
Water, Water Everwhere...
8/2/2007
By Carol La Monda
Water will be the new gold standard.
It will someday be traded and
bought on the commodities market.
People will turn on CNN to see
how H2O is faring on the Dow or
Nasdaq market. Instead of worrying
about how much oil is a barrel,
they will put a monetary value
on a barrel of clean, fresh, potable
water.
Mike Bernholz opened my eyes when
we were discussing the cost of
gasoline at the pumps. I just
filled up my car at a local gas
station in Shokan and paid $2.97
a gallon. I felt like I got a
bargain because just last week
I paid five cents more. Mike brought
my attention to the price of bottled
water. “Ever notice,”
he continued, “that the
same person grousing about the
price of gas per gallon is walking
away from that gas station with
a cold bottle of water?”
That pint of water usually sells
for a buck. If my math serves
me, and it does not always, that
translates into $8.00 a gallon.
Yep! Five bucks more than gasoline!
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Shooting
A New Thing
City Kids
Join Local Teens For A Week
Documenting The Reservoir
System
8/2/2007
By Paul Smart
A group of 20 students, evenly
split between high schoolers
from Brooklyn, The Bronx,
Queens and Manhattan, and
students in the Onteora, Hunter-Tannersville,
and Catskill school systems,
are talking about the three
weeks they’ve been spending
from July 14 through August
2 shooting stills and creating
a 20-minute documentary film
about how New York City gets
its drinking water from the
Catskills, and how this arrangement
has impacted the Catskill
region.
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