Town To Sue Onteora?
Board Approves Mulling Drastic Moves Over Recent Large Parcel
Resolution
By Gary Alexander
The Olive town board has voted to examine the feasibility of
a lawsuit against the Onteora School Board for discriminatory
assessment in Onteora's use of the Large Parcel Law against
the town. A vindicative use of the law against towns "hiding
behind a low equalization rate" was mentioned in the post
vote discussion. Olive was locked into its equalization rate
by a court order in 1984 that fixed the valuation of Ashokan
Reservoir properties at $115m for a 16 year period. That decision,
in turn, has understandably prevented the town from conducting
a revaluation which by law could not have
effected over half of the town's land but would have unreasonably
raised the taxes on smaller properties.
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For Art's Sake
Limner Gallery's Steady Mission...
By Paul Smart
Tim Slowinski deals in ironies. The art he shows, as exemplified
in his Phoenicia-based Limner Gallery's new "Fantastic
Visions" exhibit, up through the month, is all about surreal
surfaces and subtle commentary about the odd times we inhabit.
And yet -- in his life's work as both a prolific artist, and
an energetically involved and supportive gallery owner of a
quarter century, first in New York City and now in the Catskills
- Slowinski's core is anything but ironic. It's based on an
authentic belief in the redemptive qualities of fine art, and
a sincere drive to ensure that alternative viewpoints get seen
and heard, as befits our Harry Potter and Tolkien myths, as
well as the move of so many die-hard city dwellers to a new
life based on age-old ideas of rustic utopias.
The man's own trip to our neck of the world
has had its own mythic qualities, the way he tells things.
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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE OLIVE...
on Olive Day, especially, where townspeople gathered for a day
of down home fun, including a bit of special face painting. More
pics inside.
City Regs
Draw Fire
CWC Sets Fighting Tone With New York Over Hunting
& Other Rec Matters
By Paul Smart
15 burly men sat amongst over 150 chairs in the Overlook
Lodge at Belleayre Ski Center Tuesday, September 14,
for a public hearing on proposed changes to the rules
and regulations for the recreational use of New York
City's Water Supply Lands and Waters. They listened
to and watched a Power Point demonstration by city
officials and then made stilted, manly comments into
the record about how some of the proposals make a
travesty of the hunting, fishing and trapping heritage
of the region.
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Dear Mister
Bloomberg...
Three Years Later, 9/11 Still Casts Its Shadow Across
Our Monument Road
By Gary Alexander
After Olive Supervisor Brendt Leifeld read his appeal
to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the recent
town board meeting, questions came from the audience
which, like those surrounding many of the events of
September 11, 2001, have no answer.
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