Comp
Planners Find $
Committee's
"River Corridor" Proposal
Nails Major DOT Grant Funding For Town
By Rachel X.
Weissman
Significant funding for a major planning initiative appears
to have become available to the Town through the work of the
Comprehensive Planning Committee. Based in part on the availability
of funding previously committed to Phoenicia's Riverwalk Project,
the New York State Department of Transportation has awarded
a $40,000 grant to the town, based on a grant application submitted
to the agency last July as one of the Comp Plan Committee's
first projects. Notice of the award to theTown was received
Monday by Supervisor Di Modica.
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LOCAL BUSINESS
Jeremy Jordan of TSX T-Shirts, located along
the central strip of the Hudson Valley Mall in Ulster, says
the biggest sellers at the store he works in are things with
rock band logos, especially anything "Metal." He's
spent two days fielding interviews and
photo sessions with the local media, who have been reacting
to the arrest of an Albany attorney for wearing a "Give
Peace A Chance" t-shirt at Crossgates Mall outside of Albany,
which is owned by the same Pyramid Companies that owns Hudson
Valley Mall… and the Poughkeepsie Galleria.
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Defensive...
A Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown
& Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting
operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a
Defense Department source said last week. KBR was widely viewed
by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate
to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does
extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military, including
the building of the terrorist prisons at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba,
new bases in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in central Asia, and the
running of all food services at bases in Afghanistan.
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THE TENSIONS OF WAR...Students
at Onteora High School joined youth around the world March 5 to
protest the Bush Administration's drive to war. But at the school,
others spoke in favor of the same... and throughout the town,
discussion about the grave subject was terse and questioning all
week, with a sense of support for the President... but also a
growing sense of unease about the whole world situation we're
currently in.
Belleayre Thinks Big
Lanza & the Mountain's Planners Seek Community
Input on Expansion Proposal
By Brian Powers
Last Saturday, Belleayre's brass unveiled some brave new plans
for the mountain's future to a meeting of 60 or so people in its
Discovery Lodge. According to Superintendent Tony Lanza, the gathering
wasn't part of a formal DEC process of developing a new "Unit
Management Plan" for the State-owned facility, but instead
represented an effort "to get some public opinion" on
the proposed changes at an early stage. "It was a very positive
meeting" said Lanza. "Everyone had good input".
In An Attempt To Deal With State Ed Cuts, West
Hurley School Set To Close
By Violet Snow
Despite an air of tension, the standing-room-only crowd in the
Onteora High School cafeteria was quiet and orderly Monday night
as Superintendent Hal Rowe outlined to the school board four
options for cutting the budget by reorganizing classes at the
four district elementary schools. Several West Hurley parents
spoke against the proposal that would save $2 million but would
close their school, asserting its importance to their sense
of community, while one parent expressed opposition to the "Princeton
Plan", which would split lower and upper grades into separate
schools and cut over $1 million from the budget.
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Biographically Speaking...
Laura Claridge Tells Her Story
By Rachel X. Weissman
Laura Claridge keeps unusual company. In the last few years
her most constant companions — with the exception of her
husband — have been the decadent and dangerous painter,
Tamara de Lempicka, the ultimate iconographer of small-town
life, Norman Rockwell, and most recently her days have been
spent with that arbiter of American manners, no other than Emily
Post, herself. What these varied public figures all have in
common is that they have been or will be the subjects of books
by Claridge. Her book, Norman Rockwell: A Life, comes out in
paperback this month.
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