Purple
Haze On Strings
Onteora’s Orchestra Heads Off To Lincoln
Center Hoping To Play A Bit Of Hendrix
12/21/2006
By Violet Snow
Depending on the rules of the Orchestra Cup competition, the
Onteora High School orchestra may rock Lincoln Center this coming
March with its rendition of the Jimi Hendrix classic “Purple
Haze”. Orchestra conductor and music teacher Wini Paetow
is even hoping the rules will allow Juma Sultan, former drummer
for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix’s roommate
when they both lived in Boiceville, to sit in on the Manhattan
gig, as he did at last Wednesday’s winter concert at the
high school.
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Lemon
Squeezed Again
City Posts No Walking Signs For Closed Monument Road, Despite
Its Popularity
12/21/2006By
Paul Smart
By Gary Alexander
Since the closing of Monument Road, which the NYC DEP has taken
to calling the “walkway,” to pedestrians earlier
this week, there has been much to fuel local speculation as
to why it seem an appropriate idea at this time.
DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd, for instance, had announced the
completion of the first stage of repairs at Schoharie County’s
Gilboa Dam only days earlier. Could the Ashokan Dam be next
on a list of City-owned dams scheduled for rehabilitation, people
wondered. After all, Congressman Maurice Hinchey had responded
to the recent questioning of “the integrity of dam monitoring,”
as his January 2006 press release phrased it, by sending a formal
request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to participate in
State DEC dam inspections in the watershed.
