 TOO
SPECIFIC... It seemed that although most of the large
crowd that attended the January 26 Forum on a new Middle School
appreciated being asked about what they wanted for individual
rooms in the proposed building, they were frustrated to not
have a say in the larger issues of whether they felt a new 5-8
facility, and the closure of yet another elementary school,
was what they wanted in the first place.
Mystery
By The Esopus
Local Musician’s Body Found In Big
Indian; Toxicology Report Awaited
1/31//2008
By Olive Press Staff
The body of a local musician and popular Woodstock Day School
afternoon program music teacher was discovered in Big Indian
under strange circumstances two weeks ago, several miles from
his Lexington home. With word on the street in Shandaken and
Woodstock, where he was best known, noting everything from
discrepancies about who discovered the body to whether or
not it showed evidence of having been dragged to where it
was found, the tragedy has been haunting communities up and
down Route 28 since it occurred.
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What’s
In It For Us?
Spitzer’s Budget Revives Interpretive Center, Suggests
Property Tax Relief
1/31/2008
By Paul Smart
Hidden amongst the labyrinth of text and charts that make up
Governor Eliot Spitzer’s 2008 budget proposal, delivered
via a speech and flurries of press releases in Albany Tuesday,
January 22, was a figure promising $1 million for the long-dormant
Catskill Interpretive Center briefly approved and made ready
for construction during the waning years of the Cuomo administration
13 years ago.
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World
Class In West Shokan
Trail Mix Music Festival Brings
Top Shelf Piano Talents To The
Olive Free Library
1/31/2008By
Violet Snow
Where would you go to hear world-class
concert musicians perform Chopin,
Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, et
al.? Why, the little old Olive
Free Library, of course, where
Woodstock Piano Company owners
Israel Schossev and Rackelle
Roden present monthly concerts
in their Trail Mix Music Festival
from October through May.
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Project
Disconnect
Middle School Planning
Forum Yields Little Room
For Meaningful Questions
1/31/2008
By Gary Alexander
By Paul Smart
The sense of disconnection
and disappointment was
palpable at the recent
Onteora Community Forum
on plans to reconfigure
the school district for
a 5-8 Middle School.
Sure, OCS Superintendent
Leslie Ford had noted
in previous weeks that
discussion would be limited
to the two options the
board has decided to pursue,
one involving the placement
of the new facility in
the existing Middle School
facility adjacent to the
High School, the other
tied to placing it in
the building now holding
Bennett Elementary. existing
Middle School facility
adjacent to the High School,
the other tied to placing
it in the building now
holding Bennett Elementary.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Broken Bones
1/31/2008
By
Carol La Monda
I have never broken a bone in
my body until now. I am inherently
clumsy, so I have never been a
big risk taker. I earned these
crutches and cast from simply
turning my ankle and landing on
it and my dignity. I broke the
distal fibula, which is Latin
for “hurts like heck at
night.”
Of course, as you enter a room
hobbling on crutches, the immediate
question is “What happened?”
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