NEW MORNING... Finally, the
joys of another catskills summer are upon us. The school year
is almost over. The big political battles are done for the moment.
And what’s that... Olive Day is fast approaching...
Sewer
Plant Questions
Wastewater Plan For Boiceville May End Up Threatening Community’s
Businesses
5/25/06By
Gary Alexander
Olive has already had some early thunderstorms this season but
the next rumble you hear ringing through the mountains may be
the crunching of numbers as town officials and the Catskill
Watershed Corporation (CWC) try to work out an annual budget
for the wastewater treatment plant that the New
York City DEP seeks to impose in Boiceville
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Despite
Olive’s Protest
Budget Passes, Resnick & Rosenfeld Win As Rest Of Onteora
Reasserts Its Power
5/25/2006
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora school election results at the Middle/High School
were delayed into the late hour on Tuesday, May 16, but administrators
tiredly left pleased that their 2006-2007 school budget safely
passed.
In what was almost a repeat of last year’s election, the
delay was due to the town of Olive showing up to vote in large
numbers attempting to bring in their own local candidate, write-in
George Haug, and vote the district’s budget down. Polls
at Bennett Elementary School closed late due to long delayed
lines and the write-in ballot had to be counted.
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The
Coalition Gets Heavy
CWT Board Refuses To Step Up To City Negotiations, Vows To Punish
Its Critics
5/25/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The Coalition of Watershed towns is getting heavy with towns
that have griped about its rising membership dues based on fears
that the entity has lost sight of its original mission to serve
as a counterbalance to New York City watershed regulations in
favor of a growing number of pet political issues dear to its
autocratic (and largely unchanging/all male) executive committee’s
hearts.
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