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The
Belleayre Conservatory was recent feted, and benefited,
by the Coalition to Save Belleayre's annual Snowball Dinner/Dance
at the main ski lodge in Highmount on January 30. For many, including
this feisty couple, it was a perfect antecedent to the coming
weekend's Valentine's Day sweetness...
Stanley
Starts Settling In
Planning
Board Choices Rattle Many, New Police Chief Car Payment Called
Unwise
2/11/2010
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The new administration
of Republican supervisor Rob Stanley set itself into definitive
motion at its February 1 board meeting, via firmly-legislated
appointments and acceptances.
Most notably, the town planning board got an expected overhaul,
as has become par for the town's political course. Longtime
Planner Beth Waterman, who was not automatically reappointed
to her post in January, who was unanimously picked as Planning
Board chairman last autumn, was replaced this month by Hope
Luhman, a town resident who also applied for the spot.
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Sewer
Talks, Round 2
On March 1, The Town's Set To Move On New Plan To Hand Reins
To CWC
2/11/2010
By Paul
Smart
The key news to come out of the Town of Shandaken's February
1 meeting had to do with a resolution set for discussion
and possible passage at its next meeting on March 1.
The issue at hand is, barring the long-proposed Belleayre
Resort project, the town's most controversial: Will the
hamlet of Phoenicia decide to set up and build a sewer district
with upwards of $17 million being offered for such purposes
by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection?
The
New Librarian:
From Catskill To Us With Acumen
2/11/2010
By Paul Smart
Tracy
Priest, newly chosen to be the next director of the Phoenicia
Library, starts work next Tuesday, February 16, right after
the President's Day national holiday. The next day she has
a board meeting, where she'll meet everyone who has hired
her. On Thursday, February 18, her annual report for the
past year of Phoenicia Library activity will be due to administration
at the Mid Hudson Library System. She'll be simultaneously
doing a similar annual report for the Catskill Library,
where she completed work less than a week earlier as Branch
Manager of that system's library in the hamlet of Palenville.
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Riding
In The Cheap Seats
Ulster County Area Transport Upgrades,
But Kinda Forgets To Let Everyone Know
2/11/2010
By Paloma Kopp
Ulster County Area Transit, better known
as UCAT, recently underwent a massive
overhaul, with changes in the bus routes
and a fare increase that came into effect
on February 1. Faced with an impending
budget cut, UCAT officials decided that
too many people depend on the bus system
to sacrifice any services, so they chose
instead to increase the base fare by 25
cents. (Despite the fare increase, UCAT
remains one of the cheapest transportation
options, defeating both driving and the
competing service, Adirondack Trailways,
by wide margins.)
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Selling
Off The Assets
Onteora Board Starts To Mull All Budget
Balancing Options, Building Sale Included
2/11/2010
By Lisa Childers
Operating costs for West Hurley Elementary
average the Onteora district $44,000 a
year, keeping the closed campus partially
open.
As of its February 2 meeting, the school
board is mulling the cutting of this cost
as a possible means towards balancing
the district's budget for the 2010/2011school
year, when it faces a $1.5 million to
$2 million shortfall due to the shrinking
state budget. Looking for ways to make
cuts without directly effecting classroom
instruction, the sale or lease of the
building and its surrounding property
is also being considered.
The Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery
in Hunter opens its first exhibition dedicated
solely to abstract art on Saturday, February
13th, featuring four award-winning artists:
Nancy Rutter (above), Larry McKim, Ilona Sochynsky
and Emily Thing. An opening Reception takes
place Feb. 13 from 4 to 6 pm. Try www.catskillmtn.org
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