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Incumbent
Onteora Board President Marino D’Orazio
sat with Olive challengers Michelle Friedel and Richard Wolff
at a recent Meet The Candidates event. Voting is May 15...
Sewer
Movement...
Boiceville Okays Wastewater Plant As Phoenicia Stays On Its Fence...
For Now 5/10/2007
By Phoenicia Times Staff
It’s official: The hamlet of Boiceville will be getting
a $10.7 million waste treatment system over the coming three years.
Out of 148 possible votes from within the hamlet, 96 were cast
at the firehouse Tuesday night, May 8. Of those, 80 supported
the New York City funded project and only 16 were opposed.
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Calm Before The Storm?
Town Board Meeting Unsually Quiet As Town Preps For Hot Electoral
Season
5/10/2007
By Paul Smart
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Aside from the fireworks over the on again off again Phoenicia
sewer debate (see related article) this month’s town board
meeting was calm, dare we even say…dull.
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School
Vote Tuesday
Spare Budget, New Busses, & Two More Olive
Candidates For The OCS Board
5/10/2007By
Lisa Childers
Voters in the Onteora School district will go to
the polls May 15 to elect two members to the Onteora
District Board of Education for three-year terms
extending from July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2010.
Two propositions will be put before district voters,
the first of which is the budget for the coming
school year.
A copy of the $46,775,318 school budget is now on
file at the district’s schoolhouses from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. every day prior to May 15 except
Saturday, Sunday and holidays. The document is also
available at the town libraries in the towns of
Hurley, Olive, Phoenicia, West Hurley, and Woodstock
during regular library business hours.
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Mother’s
Day...
5/10/2007By
Paloma Kopp
When I was very small, my mother gave me my very
own pink-and-purple plastic broom and a matching
dustpan, which were not very effective, but kept
me occupied. I can recall easily the times when
I put the broom to use upon the tiled floor of
our kitchen, while my mother went about her motherly
business, and I carried on about the solar system
and my troubles drawing lower-case fs. In that
old apartment my mother had hung plants near the
windows, and since I was so small, I always saw
them from below: the sunlight shining through
the leaves, making them glow. They cast pointed
shadows onto a metal tabletop.
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