QUESTIONING THE CITY?
Town
officials are talking about going after New York regarding the
process by which it changed Route 28A speed limits., leading
to censure of the town’s judges for not enforcing such
laws. Now, the city is saying that all the info was properly
processed and the town knows this. Looks like another tussle
may be brewing with legal costs to mount.
Internecine Battle?
Town Takes The Large Parcel Issue To Watershed Coalition, Meets
Resistance
By Paul Smart
The lingering specter of the controversial Large Parcel issue,
which saw major changes on the Onteora School board and continuing
rumblings about lawsuits, as well as a long-awaited property
tax revaluation in the town of Olive, raised its mangy head
at the monthly meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns in
Margaretville Monday evening, November 21.
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Behind
Thanksgiving
Our Local Battle Against Hunger Mirrors Larger Wars On A National
& Global Level
By Gary Alexander
When you match legislation shaped up in Washington in the past
several weeks against economic trends across the nation at the
edge of winter, it’s difficult to escape certain conclusions.
One of those conclusions suggests an empty growl in an awful
lot of American stomachs and, locally, the same thought has
crossed the minds of those working against hunger in our own
community.
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I
Married My Sister...
Over The Transom Comes A Great Story
By Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
My sister and her boyfriend of eleven years have decided to
get married. They each have grown children, have been living
together for quite a while.
“Why?” I ask. Leslie and I have been together eight
years, and even if we could marry in New York State, we prefer
not to. The church, the state: Why is it their business?
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A Jar
Of Olives...
An Ordinary Day Is Enough
By Carol LaMonda
I am writing this prior to Election Day, so by the time
you read this, there will be winners and losers, incumbents
and newcomers to the political scene. All those dreadful
posters will be taken down; although, I predict that at
least one or two will stand in the snow and eventually be
plowed under. Electioneering and campaigning will be over.
Political rivals will shake hands and go about their everyday
lives.
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A
couple of times last week, days before
radio show host Hal Turner came to Kingston
to hold his “Rally Against Violence,”
Boiceville Inn owner John Parete says
his establishment was visited by “this
suspicion creating” man asking if
he could bring some friends over for a
get-together. Then, on Saturday afternoon,
November 19, Parete said he got a call
from some guy named Hal Turner saying
he would be coming up from Kingston with
some people for lunch. “I got off
the phone and said, ‘Hal Turner…
isn’t that the guy,’ and then
I got a call from a member of the police
saying that Turner and his crew were coming
up my direction,” Parete continued.
“I figured it was kind of strange
for them to be coming so far for lunch,
especially given that so many of them
would be taking the Thruway home. I figured
they would be using my role in politics
to set up a situation.” In addition
to running the Boiceville Inn for the
past thirty-some years, Parete also serves
as Chairman of the Ulster County Democratic
Party, which just took a majority of the
county legislature for the first time
in decades, and is the father of two leading
legislators. “I closed,” Parete
added. “I shut the place up and
put a sign out and watched as these forty
or so people came up and stomped around
in the parking lot for twenty minutes
and took pictures. Frankly, I’m
63. I run a business where alcohol is
served and the last thing I want is any
trouble.” Turner later charged that
he was discriminated against by Parete
and, later, the Hurley Mountain Inn in
Hurley, which he says also refused he
and his group entrance. He is quoted saying
that he is now planning to file a lawsuit
in federal court against both parties,
alleging civil rights violations. Parete,
meanwhile, said that when he recognized
a recent news photo of local National
Vanguard organizer Jim Leshkevich, the
man who got Turner to the area in the
first place, as the man who came by “acting
weird” last week. And by the way,
Turner and his gang ended up eating at
Ruby Tuesday’s on 9W after making
their 50 mile detour up into our neck
of the woods.
Administrative
Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for
Adjudication of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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