NEW
STARTS... Students throughout the Onteora School District took
to the buses Tuesday morning, September 8, with a mixture of
emotions as they returned to old friends and routines, but new
classes and at times new schools. Let’s all drive carefully
now... and wish them all great luck!
Take
It On To SCOTUS
Planners Say They Determined Jones Needs No New Site Plan
Determination
9/10//2009
By Paul Smart
The Olive Planning Board, in place since the town supervisor
replaced a previous board that resigned en masse in January,
2007, came up against an angry town resident Tuesday night,
September 1, whose claims of a local old boy’s network
looking the other way from zoning infractions on a property
adjacent to his, coincidentally owned by one of the town’s
planners, have gone officially unanswered.
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Teachers
Aren’t Happy
175 Show Up To Protest As Onteora Board Adds Two New Members,
Kurnit & Hickey
9/10/2009
By Lisa Childers
Onteora teachers and non-teachers walked a picket line at Woodstock
Elementary school for approximately 25 minutes leading up to Tuesday
night’s September 8 school board meeting. According to teacher
Mike Kocher, over 175 union employees of the district marched
silently, carrying signs in front of where the Onteora School
board sat in executive session.
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Contractor
Licensing Raised
County Legislature Considering What Half The Country Does
Already For Protection
9/10/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The Ulster County Legislature’s Labor Relations Committee
has begun discussion of a proposed law, tentatively known
as the Ulster County Commercial Construction and Home Improvement
Contractor License Law, that is being touted as both a means
of protecting property owners and other county residents
from the shoddy workmanship of unscrupulous contractors,
as well as an inadvertent way of raising the cost of home
construction and improvement, and adding another layer of
bureaucracy to local life.
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OLIVE
DAY is set to take
place on Saturday, September
12 with the usual array of fine
homegrown entertainment, loads
of old-time fun and games for
both kids and adults, tons of
food, beer, and the sort of
old-time rural fun -- including
a frog jumping contest -- that
many of us either moved to the
area for in the first place,
or have stayed here all our
lives for. Since it rained a
bit in recent years, we feel
the timing’s right for
a perfect day. See y’all
there!
Who’s
Getting Our Cats?
Whether It’s Fishers Or
Coyotes, The Key Is To Remember
A Pet Can Be Prey
9/10/2009
By Paul Smart
We’ve heard it’s
all the talk in local bank lines,
and we began getting impassioned
e-mails from grieving pet owners
weeks back.
Throughout the past month, there
has been a growing number of
reports from up and down the
Esopus Valley regarding missing
cats.
In the Phoenicia area, rumor
was that all signs pointed towards
the large marten-like animal
known as fishers having moved
to the stream’s banks.
But in the Boiceville area,
where nearly a dozen cats have
gone missing in the last two
months, everyone’s suspecting
coyotes… who they’ve
heard howling at night, spotted
tracks for, and seen on the
edges of forests.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
A Nip In The Air
9/10/2009
By Carol La Monda
I think Claire Collins was right
when she thought I heard katydids
instead of peepers. I did some
research, and male Peepers are
courting in the spring. So, unless,
these sexy amphibians declared
a second mating season, what I
heard were the insects known as
katydids. Beware the news that
the katydids bring. According
to Claire, she first heard the
katydids in mid-August, and that
means that the first frost should
be at the very beginning of October.
Oh, no. My flowers are just starting
to perk up after being dashed
down by months of rain. I wish
this fine weather we’ve
had this week would stretch longer
than that.
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