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Time For Infrastructure
Public Hearing On Proposed Boiceville Wastewater Plant Set For Monday

4/27/06By Gary Alexander
Cruising through Boiceville on Route 28, there’s still time to wonder where they’re going to put the wastewater management plant that New York City officials have decided belongs here.
“It’ll probably be located on land now owned by New York City but we’re still looking at various sites (on both sides of Rt.28),” said Henry Lamont, chief engineer for Lamont, VanDe Valk, Buckman & Whitbeck, P.C. of Roxbury, the firm who conducted the study which will be presented publicly at 6pm on May 2nd, prior to the Olive town board meeting on Bostock Road.

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Ready For A May 16 Vote
Onteora Board Drops Budget As Board Race Gains A New Olive Protest Write-In

4/27/2006 By Lisa Childers
Voters will be asked to approve a $44,644.222 or 3.8 percent school budget increase for the 2006-2007 year when they go to the polls May 16, along with approval for a capital reserve fund, the replacement of two in-house school busses and the extension of an additional two years on a three-year bus contract.
At the same time, they will be given two choices for two open seats on the school board – incumbent Herb Rosenfeld and Phoenicia parent Maxanne Resnick.

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Who’ll Be In The New Jail?
State Audit On GOP’s Mishaps Leaked As Calls For Criminal Investigations Grow

4/27/2006 By Olive Press Staff
A long-awaited preliminary audit from the state Comptroller’s Office loking into the county’s jail debacle has faulted the former Republican county legislature majority’s poor oversight for nearly $13 million in “unnecessary costs,” as well as several years of delay, while also uncovering enough questionable expenses – including a payment of $39.59 for cigars, and growing reports that there were under-the-counter expenditures to some legislators, to lead the county’s current Democratic majority leader to call for a criminal investigation into what happened with the state Attorney General’s Office, the FBI or the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Coalition United... For Now
Watershed Entity Reigns In An Ulster Revolt While Rift-lines Keep Deepening

4/27/2006 By Paul Smart
At a late March meeting in Hurley Supervisor Mike Shultis’s offices, called by Shandaken supervisor (and one of two Coalition of Watershed Towns representatives from Ulster County) Bob Cross Jr., eight of nine Ulster County towns located in part within the boundaries of the vast New York City watershed decided to stick with membership in the Coalition, despite voicing significant concerns over the way the entity’s been run, and treated them and other member municipalities, in recent years.

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A Jar Of Olives...

Dance Like No One Is Watching...

By Carol LaMonda
Today’s rain is intensifying the green of exploding leaves and determined grass. We certainly needed the sustained rain to soak into the ground. So much water is floating by us with the portals open delivering millions of extra gallons of water away from the Gilboa Dam. Nevertheless, we were plagued by dusty gardens and brush fires. T. S. Elliot called April “the cruelest month.” I don’t think April is cruel; it is self-sacrificing. It is the passion of Christ; it is the rain to sustain May’s blossoms, and it is the infancy of gardening. It is too early to plant flowers but just the right time to begin seeds. It is the month of promise that the next month will be even better.

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