RAIN
OR SHINE... Olive Day seems to ALWAYS be fun, as it
turned out again this year. Could it have anything to do with
the jumping frogs, as these winning kids surmised?
Is
The AIP Now In Limbo?
Enviro-Groups Give Gitter An Ultimatum While The State Says
It’s Best To Wait
9/24//2009
By Paul Smart
Dean Gitter’s
Belleayre Resort project has crept back into the news this
month with threats that a 2007 Agreement in Principal brokered
by former governor Eliot Spitzer may come apart, and warnings
from the state that any progress on the long-pending development
will be at least two years off, due to the bad economy.
At the same time, private advocates of Belleayre Mountain
have again started crying for action on the state-owned ski
center, suggesting that Gitter’s project and the 60-year
old resort need not be kept together as a single economic
development engine… and again asked why no federal stimulus
dollars have been coming to the local winter sports attraction.
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The
Cranes Sang For Killian
How The Whole Wide Community Came Out For A Hearty Send-Off To
A True Spirit
9/24/2009
By Martha Frankel
There were cranes. Everywhere you looked, there were cranes. Thousands
of them, strung together, hanging all around the pavilion at the
Davis Park. Balls of cranes, guarding the doors at St. Augustine’s
Church in West Shokan. Cranes stuck in trees, watching over the
graveside at the Bushkill Cemetery. Some were as small as a pinky-nail;
others larger than ducks.
Killian
Mansfield loved origami, and was taken by the ancient Japanese
legend that promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami
cranes will be granted a wish, such as long life or recovery from
illness or injury. So the word went out-- over facebook and twitter,
through email, on the phone-- send cranes. Make them and drop
them in a box at the West Shokan post office. Or send them to
the Mansfield’s house. Just keep folding. For the past few
months, while his cancer took a greater and greater toll on his
already frail body, there were crane-folding parties for Killian,
a thousand teeny-tiny black cranes in an origami ball sent from
Australia, families on vacation, all folding madly. A thousand?
That was for weaklings. Tens of thousands. Yes, that’s the
way Killian lived.
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Mary
Fritz born October
15, 1909 in Alsace Lorraine,
France, came to New York when
she was 21. She married Rudolf
(Ruddy) Fritz and they moved
up to Watson Hollow, from whence
she moved to Shandaken until
about two years ago. She’s
about to become a true Olive-centerian...
How about sending her cards
to Tenbroeck Common, Lake Katrine,
NY 12449!
It’s
Budget Time!
Leifeld Expects A 4 to 5 Percent
Hike Unless He Uses Capital
Reserve Funds
9/24/2009
By Olive Press Staff
With federal, state and county
levels of government warning
that 2010 is going to be a tough
year, budget wise, rural towns
are finding less and less wiggle
room to bring costs down to
their taxpayers.
Here in Olive, Town Supervisor
Bert Leifeld was shocked to
hear that people were balking
about a 2 percent hike in neighboring
Shandaken, especially given
that he was currently putting
together a 2010 town budget
that was, “looking like
it’s going to be 4 or
5 percent higher, at least.”
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Automated Frustration
9/24/2009
By Carol La Monda
It is simply lovely outside—perfect
temperature, bright sunshine and
a spectacular view of nature about
to don her fall wardrobe of reds
and yellows. I should be out on
the deck reading the book my friend
and former colleague, Jerry Curtis,
wrote. I had only forty pages
to go when the mail arrived when
a bill arrived announcing I owe
two months of a bill that gets
paid automatically through a credit
card deduction. So, inside I go
to straighten out this little
mistake that, obvious to me, the
company has made.
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Marching
Once Again
Teachers Protest Onteora
Board Meeting As Redistricting
Returns To The Agenda
9/24/2009
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora Teachers Association
(OTA) and Onteora Non-Teaching
Employee Association (ONTEA)
silently marched in front
of the Middle/High school
campus before Tuesday
night’s September
22 school board meeting.
This is the second time
in two weeks teachers
and staff walked a picket
line, carrying signs for
approximately one-half
hour. They stretched from
one end of the sidewalk
to the other facing Route
28.
When the marching came
to an end, Middle School
teacher Mike Kocher addressed
the crowd of teaching
staff.
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