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Olivebridge award-winning artist Kate McGloughlin, a native of these Catskills, will be the recipient of an upcoming show "Home" at the Kiesendahl+Calhoun Gallery at 192 Main Street in hot-hot-hot Beacon, scheduled to open March 3rd through April 2nd with the artist reception on Second Saturday March 11th from 5-7pm. Get there if you can..


Changing The Changes
Onteora Board Starts To Mull ‘Plan C’ Paring Down Of Local Elementaries...

(3/2/06)By Lisa Childers
At the February 14 Onteora School Board meeting, trustee Cindy O’Connor, one of three Olive-centric members elected to the board in a protest vote against the Large Parcel issue last Spring, requested that the board explore the possibility of discussing the little-discussed “Plan C” of the KSQ architects school reconfiguration options at a future meeting.

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Reval Impacts Going Out
Big Meeting Set For Thursday To Explain What To Expect From Here On In

3/2/06 By Paul Smart
Get ready for impact statements, Olive… they get mailed out by a mailing service in Kingston starting later this week, following an informational reading on how to read them set to take place at the Town Meeting Hall on Bostock Road this Thursday, March 2, starting at 7 pm.

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It’s On To Albany Now
Coalition Backs Olive In Bid To Have Large Parcel Law Changed To Drop Reservoirs

3/2/06 By Olive Press Staff
The Executive Committee of the Coalition of Watershed Towns is urging state lawmakers to remove New York City reservoirs from a state law that allows counties and school districts to tax those reservoirs separately from the towns they occupy.

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A Jar Of Olives...


High Wire Maestro...

3/2/06 By Violet Snow
About twelve years ago, high-wire artist and magician Philippe Petit chose a part-time residence in Shokan because of its proximity to the Shawangunk cliffs outside New Paltz, one of the premier rock-climbing sites in the Northeast. He’s only made it to the Gunks a few times, however, because he dislikes fancy climbing equipment. Without the ropes and chucks and carabiners, the high cliffs are “too dangerous,” says the man who walked a high wire between the roofs of the World Trade Center towers in 1974, crossing eight times in forty-five minutes, a quarter-mile above the ground.

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