Olive
Day, postponed a week because of rains that
never turned out quite as bad as expected, came off under sullen
skies on Saturday, September 20... but no problem. It was still
true community, and real fun for this posse of frog racers.
Some
Baby Steps First
Onteora Moves Towards West Hurley Sale & Stalemates On
A Dirty Water Revote...
9/25/2008
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora district school board discussed the possibility
of hiring a part time grants writer at its monthly meeting in
Boiceville Tuesday night, September 23. The district already
has a contract with BOCES to find suitable grants, but OCS Superintendent
Leslie Ford said it could prove too expensive to have a part
time person on hand just for that purpose, noting that principals
and teachers already write small grants. Flayhan suggested using
the interim superintendent to write district grants.
The idea ended up canned… for now.
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A
Trial Of Muddied Issues
Shandaken Jury Finds Mt. Tremper Man Guilty Of Polluting The
Esopus Creek
9/25/2008
By Paul Smart
The trial of Mt. Tremper resident Algernon Reese in Shandaken
Town Court on Tuesday, August 16, was the town’s first
in at least a year, according to the town justice’s clerk.
The charges Reese were facing were about as local as one can
get: the state Department of Environmental Conservation alleged
that the former judge and attorney who moved onto a seven-acre
property adjacent to the Esopus Creek to be close to the Zen
Mountain Monastery had worked in, changed and modified the course
of a protected stream without proper permits, that by discharging
turbid water into the Esopus from his property, he was guilty
of pollution, and that he obstructed governmental administration
during the course of being issued summons on the previous two
charges.
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The
View From Here
Local Future Gazer Predicts Collapse As Local Banks Continue
To Stay Mum
9/25/2008
By Gary Alexander
Maybe by the time you read this, the international economic
cataclysm will be old news and the treadmill will have turned
to the latest O.J. trial. Maybe the head-spinning rush of
news out of Wall Street and Washington will take a back seat
to some other catastrophe. Maybe we’re just dreaming
this and, when we wake up, we can go on denying the obvious.
Maybe you’re not even shocked. Perhaps you were expecting
it all along.
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Cellular
Reception’s Started
Olive’s Verizon Tower
Lends Signal To Esopus Valley,
Raising Policy Questions
9/25/2008
By Phoenicia Times Staff
No one knew when it was
coming, but once it arrived
it didn’t take very
long for the news to spread.
After all, the word could
now be spread by cell phone,
phones which now work along
the Route 28 corridor almost
up to the hamlet of Phoenicia.
Sometime early last week,
without any ceremony, Verizon
Wireless activated its equipment
atop the recently built
communications tower on
South Mountain in the town
of Olive. The strength of
the signal sheds new light
on the debate over how many
towers would be needed to
blanket the corridor, or
at least close the gap between
the signal that Verizon
just sent out in Olive and
the company’s existing
equipment on a Cell tower
in Highmount.
Longtime
Olive resident Ellen Nieves
has long been
one of the region’s top
landscape paintings, but now
she’s taken her work in
an extraordinary new direction
of ecological self-portraits.
See them from October 4 on at
the Woodstock Artists Association
& Museum.
A
Jar Of Olives...
Can You Hear Me Now?
9/25/2008
By Carol LaMonda
We made it through Olive Day with
showers all around, but none on
Davis Park. This was the thirty-fifth
successful Olive Day from the
Ox Pull that began the tradition
in 1973. We, in Olive, ate our
way through the day, greeted neighbors
and listened to great music from
Chris Walsh and the Famous Lees
of Krumville. Danny and Mardel
Marlatt came all the way from
the west coast to mingle with
old friends. Others, like Walter
Wilmoth, came to get their chicken-liver
and bacon sandwich from the Bushkill
Rod and Gun Club.
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