May 26 , 2005 - Home - Editorial - POV - Masthead - Contact The Olive Press - Letters to the Editor

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TRACK TIME... The Onteora High School’s long distance team has been practicing. With all the talk of budgets and candidates, we sometimes forget what a great place the school facilities still are in Boiceville. Stop by and check them out...


An Olive Sweep!
Record Turnout Tells The District What Large Parcel Means To Our Community

By Paul Smart
Olive’s anger over the Large Parcel issue blistered the Onteora school district May 17, bringing down the administration’s first budget under a 5 percent rise since 1998, and bringing in a slate of three Olive candidates as two incumbents popular throughout the rest of the district faced defeat.

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Time For Sewer Talk
Informational Meeting On City-Requested Wastewater Treatment Plant On Thursday

By Gary Alexander
Olive supervisor Brendt Leifeld is gearing up for a local controversy that's been awaiting its turn at bat since the signing of the Watershed Memorandum
of Agreement (MOA) between local municipalities, city, state, federal and environmental bodies in January of 1997. Snuggled into the lines of that compact is a contingency which may soon lead to a significant water treatment system in Boiceville. An informational meeting on the project is scheduled for Thursday evening, May 26, at 7 pm in the meeting hall on Bostock Road.

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The Election results…
What are people feeling now that we’ve gotten the results we wanted?

By Gary Alexander
Moods are decidedly upbeat around prospects for the new Onteora School budget passing on its second go ‘round after startling many with its defeat at the polls on May 17th.
”I’m not surprised by the election results,” said school board member David Patterson when reached on his cell phone somewhere in northern New Jersey as he pursued his occupation as a communications product specialist in the northeast region. “I think people supporting their side is a great thing.

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Historically Speaking...

Nagy’s Harmony

By Brent Robison
A little-known fact about New York is that it is the only state in the US which requires by law that every city, village, town, borough, and county have an officially appointed historian. Each of these Public Historians takes an Oath of Office and works diligently to preserve and promote the history of the state. Shandaken is fortunate to have someone who cares passionately about the Catskills region to fill the role of Town Historian - Maureen Nagy of Pine Hill.

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