 Winds
and the weight of recent snowfalls collapsed the roof
over the staging area at the Olive landfill on Sunday, burying
a bulldozer and shutting down operations temporarily. Because
the site was closed due to the continuing storm on that day,
there were no injuries to report. The tilted roof, which sheltered
an open air area adjacent to a line of large removable garbage
bins where Olive residents unloaded their trash bags for disposal,
had stood for most of the past decade on supporting columns
without obvious indication of distress. The landfill will be
re-opened under temporary conditions when the county brings
in roll-off bins in the near future. Until then, residents are
requested to bring their refuse to the West Hurley landfill
on Dughill Road, which has been opened to Olive residents as
a neighborly gesture. Costs of replacement, liability and other
issues look to be hot issues in the coming year...
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The
Battle Lines Harden
Resort Hearings Draw Loud Opposition, Supporters Vow To Ignore
Climate Shifts
12/20//2007
By Paul Smart
On Monday night, December 10, a crowd of approximately 150
braved icy roads to attend what had been promised as an informational
meeting on the actual build-out details of the so-called Agreement
In Principal for a Belleayre Mountain Ski Center expansion
and resort go-ahead for developer Dean Gitter, who was no
where in sight for the occasion. Expecting to be shown and
told how the giant Belleayre Resort plans would fit in with
long-awaited expansion of the ski slopes, they were instead
met with what one local resident would later summarize as
a “high school science fair sort of set up” that
made Gitter’s long-proposed development look like merely
a part of a bigger state development for making their Catskills
ski center one of the bigger winter sports draws on the East
Coast.
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Ring
In 2008
Leifeld Looks Ahead
12/202007By
Olive Press Staff
2008 is right
around the corner.
According to town Supervisor Bert Leifeld the year will bring
closure to a long battle with New York City, the ground breaking
for the Boiceville Sewer project and perhaps a new bypass around
the reservoir road.
All this, he said, plus a Republican being sworn in as a member
of the previously all democrat board at the towns reorganization
meeting on January 3rd and high hopes for even more cellular
service in town now that the long awaited South Mountain tower
is operational.
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Hear
Ye, Hear Ye
We're taking a little post-holiday
break. Look for your next Olive
Press on January 17.
Drain
The Reservoir?
Town
Counters City’s Claims
On Road Closure With An Absurdity
Of Their Own
12/20/2007
By Gary Alexander
In an amendment to Olive’s
Article 78 lawsuit to re-open
Monument Road south of the Ashokan
Reservoir, Olive is now demanding
that, since its presence represents
a constant danger to thousands
of Ulster County residents,
it be emptied until the threat
is removed.
In the flurry of last minute
legal filings before the December
28th deadline set by the Ulster
County Supreme Court, Olive
attorney Delice Seligman included
this motion along with responses
to her New York City opponents
and an affidavit from Olive
Supervisor Brendt Leifeld.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
A Horse Story...
12/20/2007
By Carol La Monda
The holidays are a time for remembering.
One story that gets told and retold
and gets better with the telling
is the story about the free horse.
Before you accept a free horse,
consider why it might be free.
This story took place about twenty-five
years ago.
“Every little boy wants
a pony. We have a barn, hay fields,
and lots of land to ride. I think
we should take it, “ I said
with resolve to my skeptical husband.
“I don’t know, Carol,”
he said in a voice that trailed
up and down the musical scale.
“A pony can be a lot of
work and bother.”
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Rethinking
OCS Transport
Board Hears New Bussing Plans
That
Already Have Some Parents Up
In Arms
12/20/2007
By Lisa Childers
During public be heard at
Tuesday night’s December
18 Onteora District school
board meeting,Dan Spencer
said he and neighbors who
live in the Boiceville area
received a letter on December
4 from David Moraca the
director of transportation
that would effect the way
their children travel to
and from the middle/high
school. Spencer said the
letter explained that he
was not in compliance with
a “district and board
of education policy and
therefore was suspending
our children’s right
to bus transportation to
and from school because
their bus stop in within
a mile of our school.”
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