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TIME TO BUILD... A volunteer trail-building crew from
the town's Recreation Committee carefully moves a massive stone
step into place along Phoenicia's Tanbark Trail. Used by thousands
of hikers since its opening in 2001, improvements in progress
on the trail's now 1.8 mile route to Phoenicia Overlook and Grandview
Ledge are expected to be completed by summer. To volunteer, contact
Heather Roberts at 688-7064.
The
Process Rules
DEP Responds To Town Sewer Proposal, Seeking More
Info & Suggesting Changes
4/9/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
New York City weighed in on the townís
alternative reedbed plan for a Phoenicia Sewer system to
be paid through its watershed protection program in recent
weeks, setting the stage for further review procedures and
a possible extension of current decision-making facing the
town on the longstanding matter.
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Making
Things Happen
Collaborative Meeting Eyes New Efforts To Revive Catskill
Interpretive Center
4/9/2009
By Charlie Blumstein
The recently completed Town Hall in Andes was the location
of the March meeting of the Central Catskills Collaborative
(CCC), a group of representatives from seven municipalities
along the NYS Rt. 28 corridor. The CCC is an inter-municipal
coalition formed under the encouragement of Peter Manning,
Regional Planner of the Catskill Center for Conservation
and Development (CCCD) in order to protect and promote
the assets of the corridor and advance projects for the
economic benefit of the Central Catskills region. Two
members each from the towns of Hurley, Olive, Shandaken,
Middletown, and Andes, and the villages of Fleischmanns
and Margaretville, have been meeting on the fourth Thursday
of each month in the various member towns to advance a
regional dialogue and take action to develop a regional
identity which can be used to gain a stronger footing
when negotiating various issues with the state or other
large entities... and seeking funding for local projects.
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Mister
Civics
Onteora’s John Iannotti Retires
4/9/2009 By Paul Smart
John Iannotti’s classroom at Onteora
High School is a treasure trove for
anyone interested in the movement of
American, New York, and Ulster County
politics over the last three decades.
Speaking at the end of a school day
in his 29th year teaching Social Studies
at the Boiceville-based school, from
which he’s set to retire at the
end of the current school year, he noted
how much of the collection he’d
built since the Carter years was already
called for… by both former students
as well as other faculty members.
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“Yes
We Can’t” is
the name of an abstract depressionist
evening with Mikhail Horowitz and
Gilles Malkine benefiting Actors &
Writers at the Odd Fellows Theater,
Route 213, Olivebridge, on April 18.
Call 657-9760 or visit www.actorsandwriters.com.
A Mighty Tight Budget
Ford’s OCS Budget Comes In Under
Contingency, Sparking Board Discord
4/9/2009
By Lisa Childers
Recent weeks at Onteora have been marked
by budget talks, and this week’s
announcement by current school board
president Maxanne Resnick that she would
not be seeking a second term.
The 2009/2010 budget recommendation
for the Onteora Central School district
was unveiled at Tuesday night’s,
March 31 Board of Education meeting
at the Middle/High School, when Superintendent
Leslie Ford and Assistant Superintendent
for Business Victoria McLaren presented
a 3.50 percent budget increase in spending
that falls below a 3.97 percent contingency
budget.
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Plant
Those Gardens
As GMO Corporations Go After
Organics, More & More Turn
To Own Resources
4/9/2009
By Gary Alexander
Nobody
has to tell you about soaring food prices.
You see them every time you shop for even
very basic necessities. Food bills rode the
oil price rocket up but when gas pump numbers
fell, the cost of filling a shopping bag stayed
up there.
This is one reason given for the perceived
leap in the number of rural gardens being
planned this Spring. Another is the dire outlook
for the future availability of produce and
the dominance of genetically engineered (GMO)
ingredients in supermarket products.
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