One Review Or Two?
Resorts Ties To DEC's Ski Center Sought As Towns Line Up Behind
Developer
By Paul Smart & Brian Powers
The Catskill Preservation Coalition, representing eleven national,
regional, and local environmental groups in the Belleayre Resort
issues conference, has filed a motion to "stay" the
current hearings being held by the State Department of Environmental
Conservation.
In a Motion for Discovery filed by CPC attorney Marc Gerstman
on June 2, the Coalition asserts that the current review needs
to include growth plans for DEC's own Belleayre Mountain Ski
Center in order to properly assess the full cumulative impacts
of the ski area expansion and the resort proposed to surround
it.
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Second Round...
Onteora Trots Out Its Latest Budget Seeking To Avoid Contingency
Cuts
By Violet Snow
On Tuesday, June 22, Onteora school district voters will accept
or reject a second budget proposal totaling $41,967,769, down
by more than $700,000 from the budget defeated by the voters
last month. The new proposal represents an increase of 4.14
percent over this year's budget, with an estimated average
6.54 percent tax levy hike. If this budget fails, the district
will go to a contingency budget, limited by law to a 2.76
percent increase, resulting in a 4.72 percent tax increase.
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LOOKING FOR LOVIN'... Town
of Olive personnel found this dog on Traver Hollow in West Shokan
about two weeks ago. She is a one-year old female (fixed
and has all shots), very sweet dog in need of a good home.
Between Two
Rocks
Looking Ever-more Deeply Into The Sad Truths Of The
Large Parcel Bill
By Gary Alexander
An Onteora teacher with many years of experience says
it's the worst thing that's ever happened to the school
district and wishes it would just go away. The school
board finds that the politics of it have put them in
a position to learn all the intimate details of the
origins of the expression "between a rock and a
hard place." Taxpayers of Olive find themselves
faced with the most precipitous tax hike in the history
of the town because of it.
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Timewarp...
Joyce Grant's Memory Business
By Brian Powers
In the realm of internet-based businesses, Joyce Grant
has definitely found her niche. When the Today Show recently
needed a pet rock, they found that niche easily enough;
so did the folks from the Drew Carey show when they needed
a set of 1960's lawn darts. And if you've secretly yearned
for the therapeutic touch of some Rock -Em Sock -Em Robots
or a really nice Batman lunchbox, you might just find
what you need at Joyce's TimewarpToys.com.
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