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YOU
GOTTA HAND IT TO UNCLE ROCK... Our local talent’s
not only hitting it big, nationally, but throwing great local
parties for the kids. He’s got a Season of Light extravaganza
on Sunday, December 21 from 3 to 5 PM at the STS Playhouse in
Phoenicia and then a New Year’s Eve bash for kids, 5 to
9, at the Bearsville Theater. Visit www.unclerock.com for info.
Onteora’s
New Future?
Board Mulls Over Transport & Other Matters As Snow Cuts Meeting
Short
12/18/2008
By Lisa Childers
Chalk it up to the snow to keep the hard work of strategic planning,
always a contentious subject in the wide and diverse Onteora School
District, at bay until 2009. A number of key issues that seemed
prime for contention at this week’s board meeting were postponed
when what everyone thought would be a monumentally long board
meeting was cut short by the start of a winter storm... five days
before the official start of winter.
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‘Tis
That Season Again?
State Steps In To Start Readying Town Boards For Upcoming
Resort Review
12/18/2008
By Paul Smart
What is it about the holiday season in Shandaken? Over
much of the past decade, it’s been the time of year
when local developer Dean Gitter and his Crossroads Ventures
hold press conferences and submit review documents for
their proposed Belleayre Resort, a mega-development to
be built alongside a planned state expansion of its ski
center of a similar name along the Ulster/Delaware county
borders.
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A HOLIDAY
BREAK!
Instead of January 1, our next
Olive Press issue will be out on Jan. 15, 2008. See
you then!
Envisioning
Route 28
Olive Takes Lead On Central Catskills Planning
Efforts, Helping Out Shandaken
12/18/2008
by Gary Alexander
Visionaries are meeting quietly to conspire
about the future physical appearance of Olive,
Shandaken and the rest of the Route 28 Corridor.
It’s not a secret conspiracy. The State
is joining in.
“Olive is the lead agency of the 7 municipalities
(involved in the project),’ said Olive
councilwoman Helen Chase, one of the conspirators.
“It would appear that Olive is getting
the $90,000 but it’s not true. It’s
all of us that are getting it.”
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For
Sale
Two Churches & A Lot Of History
12/18/2008
Phoenicia Times Staff
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York,
in a continuing effort to downsize, has put
two former churches up for sale in the St. Francis
de Sales Parish, which covers a vast area between
Woodstock and Highmount.
The fact that the For Sale signs went up just
before one of Christianity’s biggest times
of year has left a number of former parishioners
saddened, and quite a few old-timers throughout
the area shaking their heads at the many changes
affecting the Catskills world they feel they
once knew inside out.
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