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HALLOWEEN
FUN... As has become usual for the annual Phoenicia Halloween
Parade, adults were having as much fun as kids, and even GOP vice
presidential then-hopeful Sarah Palin seemed to have a good time
hanging with the ghouls.
Budget
Cuts & Sewer Talk
Town Board Action
11/6/2008
By Phoenicia Times Staff
A special session to shave the town’s $5 million preliminary
budget yielded little results last week, but at press time there
are some items, including raises for staff and officials, on the
chopping block.
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Evaluating
Rising Needs
Local Organizations Keep An Eye, Offer Help, For Coming
Heat & Hunger Crises
11/6/2008
Olive Press Staff
While some are focusing on helping people cope with energy
costs, many area churches are starting to focus on helping
with food and shelter issues over the coming winter months.
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Solidly Democrat
Shandaken Voters Go With Nation’s Tide, Give Bartlett
The OK, No GOP Winners
11/6/2008
by Paul Smart
In terms of this past Election Day’s moment of history
levels, with the nation electing it’s first African-American
president and returning control of Washington solidly
to Democrats for the first time in eight years, what big
changes, signs, and trends appeared on our own turf? What
is there to report on here in Ulster county and the Route
28 corridor?
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Planning
For New Plans
Onteora Sets New Sub-Committees;
District Special Ed Needs Keep Rising
11'6/2008
by Lisa Childers
School Board trustee Maxanne Resnick summarized
the last Strategic Plan Committee held
on October 27 at West Hurley elementary
for fellow town board members and the
public at this past week’s Monday,
November 3 school board meeting in Woodstock.
She said the committee created five subgroups
and created charges for each. They will
report back to the full committee in January.
SNOW
hit the higher elevations of the region
recently, lending certain areas, including
(most appropriately) the entrance to Belleayre
Ski Center, a truly wintry look last week.
So does this mean it’ll be a long
winter? Given it was only October, it already
is... at least for those among us who still
had outdoor chores to do before Autumn’s
end.
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Challenged Catskills
DEC Workshops Eye Serious Climate Change,
See Localized Energy Solutions
11/6/2008
by Paul Smart
The state of the Catskills, organizers of
the recent day-long October 23 seminar on
the topic said last week, is “challenged
just now.”
“Part of the message we’ve heard
here loud and clear,” said state Department
of Environmental Conservation Region 3 Director
Willie Janeway, summarizing the second of
two-public-be-heard sessions that punctuated
an agenda otherwise filled with technical
reports, “Is that we are facing a
large number of threats.”
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