Our Police Controversy
The Plot Thickens As Oliveans Dig Up Records From Florida In
Their Chase...
By Gary Alexander
Robert Schanck, as a former New York State trooper and BCI investigator,
is the most qualified of Olive's three police commissioners
to head the local police department. When his qualifications
were challenged in August on the basis of his residency, Schanck
responded by submitting a notarized statement of residency at
his daughter's home in Boiceville to the Ulster County Board
of Elections along with a notarized declaration that he was
not registered to vote elsewhere and considered his Olive address
to be his primary residence. Schanck readily acknowledges the
listing is to satisfy the formality of a requirement that police
commissioners be "electors" in the community they
serve.
After presenting the election board's ruling to the Olive Town
Board at this month's meeting, Schanck, who had said he would
resign if the Board of Elections did not accept the Boiceville
address, declared that he has not voted in any district other
than Olive since assuming his position.
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Studio Stu! From
Brooklyn
To Boiceville...
By Paul Smart
Studio Stu says you can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you
can never take the Brooklyn out of a boy like him.
Studio Stu, known throughout the Hudson Valley, the Northeast
even, as the iconoclastic emcee with a jazzy beatnik persona,
ad-libbing as he plucks away on his one-of-a-kind Studivar-ious
washtub bass, says he still hankers after the city. But then,
he adds, there's nothing like looking out on the Catskills when
he gets off the road each week to spend time at home with his
family in Olive. .Continue>>>
