The Olive Press

Justin Ihne, Director of YMCA Camp Seewackamano in Shokan, winds down another high-energy day for close to 300 local kids... With summer winding down and the hint of autumn chill entering the air, it’s as if everyone’s eeking out the last big fun!

If Only For Home Rule
Ulster Tomorrow Road Show Plays Olive As Regular Town Business Percs Along

8/14/2008 By Charlie Blumstein
A traveling picture show presented by Anthony Marmo, Dennis Doyle, and Lance Matteson of the Ulster Tomorrow Sustainable Economic Development Plan initiative graced the Olive Town Board meeting of last Tues., Aug. 5th, bringing their new vision for appropriate economic development within Ulster County to interested residents of this part of Ulster County. When Supervisor Bert Liefeld welcomed Mr. Marmo to Olive, Marmo quipped “I am the dog and the ponies will be here shortly.”, thus lending a little humor to a normally dry subject.

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Shifting The Priorities
State Budget Crunch Worries Some That Belleayre & CIC Funds Will Be Cut

8/14/2008 By Paul Smart
Two weeks ago, Governor David Paterson gave a major speech in which he recognized the fact that New York State was in a recession and likely to lose major revenue streams in the coming years. To close a widening deficit, he suggested a 7 percent belt-tightening for all state agencies and departments, $600 million in cuts from expenditures under his own Executive control, and another $600 million in cuts to be made by the state legislature, which he called back to session starting August 19.

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Entirely New Concerns
Onteora Board Votes Down Large Parcel, Opens Talks On Various District Problems

8/14/2008 By Lisa Childers

In a meeting that went long after midnight, the Onteora School Board voted on August 5 five-to-one not to enact the Large Parcel Legislation that would apportion the taxes paid by the Ashokan Reservoir evenly throughout the Onteora School District. School board trustee Maxanne Resnick was the lone dissenter among the trustees. Trustee Rick Wolff was absent. The tax rolls have not yet been established, so specific information about who will pay what for the 2008-2009 school year is not available.

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Benefit for the Mansfield Family in West Shokan

Sunday August 24, 2008 2pm – 7pm At the private residence of Bill and Dusty Stack - 28 Hillside Drive (off Moonhaw) W. Shokan

rsvp: bill@mountain-gardens.com
845-657-6323

Between The Cracks
Towns Folk Come Together To Help Out A Neighbor With Hard Times Still Falling

8/14/2008 By Gary Alexander
Rudy is an eight-year-old Beagle who knows that the sun rises in his master’s voice. He knows his master is his constant companion and provider. He knows where he lives and where he can lay down at night to sleep with his master near, even if, lately, that happens to be a disabled mini-van parked in a yard. What Rudy doesn’t know is that his master is struggling to survive with a bipolar disorder.

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Kids Columnist Sylvia Viola ended up holding on loyally as her sheep dragged her at the Ulster County Fair recently. For more on this and other 4H matters, see pages 11 and 36.

A Jar Of Olives...
Little Bo Peep

8/14/2008 By Carol LaMonda
“Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep,” says the nursery rhyme, “and doesn’t know where to find them.” Well, Joan Clark, who lives on Route 28 knows where one of them is. She spotted it in her back yard. Seems like a farmer was transporting livestock back from the Ulster County Fair when a few sheep fell out.

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