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Petula
is one of a handful of local dogs who have modeled for photographer
Bernard Handzel for a new series of postcards that will go on
sale locally in the coming weeks as a fundraising benefit for
the Phoenicia Library... check them all out. And buy, buy, buy
until, well, the dogs come home!
Still
Headed For Trial...
Three Local Lawsuits Move Ahead
On Landowner, Planning & Sex Issues
4/12/2007
By Phoenicia Times Staff
A call came in last week from the attorney for two Shandaken women
who have brought a sexual harassment suit against the Emerson
and its former manager, Ted Wright.
Ronald Dunn, the attorney representing the plaintiffs, of the
Albany-based firm Gleason, Dunn, Walsh and O’Shea, said
that he is awaiting word on whether the defendants will ask the
judge for a summary judgment, which according to Dunn would, if
granted, basically prevent a jury from finding the defendants
guilty of the sundry charges brought against them by the former
.
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OCS
Settles On A Budget
An SRO Crowd Questions Cuts After A Flurry Of Last-Minute Negotiations
4/12/2007
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora School Board adopted a proposition for voters on
the 2007-2008 Onteora school budget at $46,775,318 Tuesday night,
April 10. This represents a budget increase of 2,131,096 or
4.77 percent. School board trustees Rita Vanacore and Dave Patterson
– the latter up for re-election next month — both
voted against the budget, stating the administration could go
lower in department reductions.
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Back
To Square One
Latest Cellular Deal Goes Belly Up, Putting Town Back
At Starting Point
4/12/2007
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Just three hours before the Shandaken town board was
going to sign a deal for a long overdue telecommunications
tower project to begin, the private sector firm that
holds the reigns of the complicated arrangement pulled
out.
At this time, after years of preparation and after
the project was designed and approved, the town is
now back to square one, still with little to no cellular
communication in town and no potential providers anywhere
in sight.
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The
Magic Of Catskill Trout
4/12/2007
By Violet Snow
From April through November, Hank Rope takes only
three days off from fishing. The proprietor and sole
employee of Big Indian Guide Services, he works most
weekends and fishes for fun during the week, except
on his granddaughter’s birthday and on the two
days he volunteers for Casting for Health, teaching
breast cancer survivors how the arm movements of fly
casting, plus communion with nature, can speed recovery
from surgery.
What is it about fishing that makes people spend whole
days or weeks on the creek and thousands of dollars
on fancy equipment? With the advent of fishing season,
I set out to investigate.
Accident-Prone
Hot Spot!
County Looks To Ways Of Preventing
Incidents Such As Last Week’s Fatality
4/12/2007
By Paul Smart
Three major accidents along a 15-mile stretch of
Route 28 in the towns of Olive and Shandaken last
week — the worst of which killed a Greene
County woman and sent two people, including a Fleischmanns
teenage, to area hospitals following a three-car
crash April 6 in Boiceville – have county
officials talking about taking steps to deal with
what they see as a growing problem along the Esopus
Valley “hot spot.”
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