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EPIPHANY... It sure is feeling
like an old-style winter, given all the snow and chill. And yet,
even with all the talk of recessions and depressions, there’s
something crisply beautiful in the air, a whisper of real change
at last. Celebrate it!
End
Of The Sewer Deal?
City Rejection Of Reedbed Plan Might Mean A No Go On Its $17 Million
Offer
1/15/2008
Phoenicia Times Staff
In what appears to be a death knell for the Phoenicia sewer project,
the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
has said no to the hamlet’s latest, and perhaps final, attempt
to prepare a plan that satisfied both the people and the DEP.
DEP Engineer Christopher Costello notified Shandaken Town Supervisor
Peter DiSclafani that the alternative plan, an experimental reed
bed system, would not satisfy the requirements of DEP, which is
in charge of keeping the water in the region pure for consumption
of New Yorkers.
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Organize!
Sarah Stitham Will Help You Do It
1/15/2008
By Violet Snow
The first house Sarah Stitham organized was the one she
moved into with her partner, artist Kate McLoughlin, ten
years ago. “It was Kate’s family homestead,
and it had three generations of stuff in it,” recalls
Stitham, now a certified professional organizer with her
own business, Revamp. While McLoughlin has lived on the
Olivebridge property her whole life, Stitham, also a Hudson
Valley native, has moved 36 times. The many moves gave
her a keen sense of awareness of stuff and how to organize
it.
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HIBERNATION...
Instead of Jan. 29, our next issue will be out on
Feb 12. See you then!
Big
Cuts At Onteora...
Governor’s Budget Suggests Priority Shift
In Our Local School Budgeting
1/15/2008
Lisa Childers
Sweeping cuts in programming and personnel throughout
the Onteora school district were have been suggested
by OCS central office administrators, including
the elimination of a Middle school teaching
team, increasing class sizes, consolidating
special education, reducing a teacher of deaf
and hard of hearing, and eliminating the FACETs
program.
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The 12th annual Primitive
Biathlon takes place on Sunday, January
18, at the Upper Esopus Fish and Game Lodge
in Oliverea. Over the years the event has become
a big winter draw. For any additional information
call 331-5201 or visit www.shandakenprimitivebiathlon.com
Gitter Suit Tossed Out
Developer’s Move to Silence Critics Fails
As Court Rules No Legal Basis For Libel
1/15/2008
Brian Hollander
A lawsuit claiming that the Phoenicia Times
had libeled Dean Gitter has been thrown out
in State Supreme Court. The suit, filed in May
by Gitter individually and not as a principal
in Crossroads Ventures, the firm with the proposal
to build the Belleayre Resort, asserted that
a letter published in the bi-weekly Phoenicia
Times and signed by “Bonnie Grant”
was printed “with malicious and with specific
intent to harm Plaintiff.” Gitter’s
suit named as defendants not only the newspaper
itself, but its editor, Paul Smart and its publisher
Brian Powers.
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The Big Freeze?
Gov’s New Budget Set To Cap Taxes
On State-Owned Land at ’08 Levels
1/15/2009
By Brian Powers
In a move that would squarely shift the
full burden of future local tax increases
directly onto private property owners
here, Governor Paterson’s proposed
2009-2010 budget includes a change to
the tax law which would cap property taxes
paid on state-owned land to towns, counties,
and school districts at their current
dollar levels.
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