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It's
a friendly but tightening 3-way Majors race at midseason with
the Mets, Blue Jays, and Cubs vying for the local championship
and plenty of Minor League and T-Ball action. Great program, serious
fun. Catch it at
www.woodstockbaseball.info.
Our
New Town Square?
Mama's Boy Market Puts A Whole New Perspective On What Most
Couldn't See
5/20/2010
By Paul Smart
The view from the front doors and porch at the new Mama's
Boy Market taking shape in the center of Phoenicia is an eye-opener.
Located in the small cottage that sat ever-so-quietly in the
shadow of the old Phoenicia Hotel, which burned two summers
ago, it's biggest feature is what used to be the hotel's deck.
Everything else is now lawn... especially with new market-owner
Michael Koegel's work crew ensuring that what wasn't growing
now grows, and everything takes on a neat new look.
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The
Price May Not Be Right
State Comptroller Sends Back Resort Land Deal; Highmount
Sale In Limbo
5/20/2010
By Paul Smart
The shifting terrain of real estate pricing has caught Dean
Gitter's Belleayre Resort project. At the same time, the
state's current budget crisis, and ensuing confusion as
agencies shuffle projects to areas safe from major legislative
and executive cuts, seems to have also affected the controversial
development proposal with a major component of its potential
funding, and review, seeming to have become lost in some
bureaucratic limbo..
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Esopus As A Fish Haven?
New Discussions To Make Creek A No Kill Zone Leads To Fisherfolk
Infighting
5/20/2010
By Phoenicia Times Staff
A proposal to make it against the law to catch and keep
trout from the Esopus Creek has caused a stir among local
fishermen and some disagreement within the ranks of Trout
Unlimited.
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The
Catskill Mountain Railroad, which kicks
off its season of scenic (and totally fun) rides
over the Memorial Day weekend, recently received
its latest piece of equipment... a beautiful blue
locomotive brought up from Staten Island and deposited
onto its tracks with quite the effort. More inside
on page 5.
What's
Good For All?
Planning Session On Farm Stand Law Yields Suggestion
We Look To Future
5/20/2010
By Phoenicia Times Staff
With only a handful of spectators present, as
compared to previous pubic standoffs on the issue,
town officials gathered on Tuesday to try and
hash out what to do about the farm stand issue
that has troubled the community for the past several
years.
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Coming
to Your Census
Confessions of a NRFU Enumerator
5/20/2010
By Dave Channon
I am a NRFU. In case you don't speak acronymese,
that's Non Responder Follow Up. The lucky person
who gets to interview at every house, cabin or
yurt that didn't fill in and mail back their Census
questionnaire. Along with a couple dozen neighbors
and friends, I pound every rutted dirt back road
and driveway-from-hell from the near side of Woodstock
and Shandaken to the fringes of Hardenburgh. At
least it's better than my previous Federal stint
amid the snow drifts of Update/Leave... tying
a census form in a bag on anything someone could
live in, including teepees and caves. One guy
I know broke the chains of his 4 wheel monster
snow plow getting up the 6 foot deep stuff on
his driveway. Then the wrecker got stuck. When
he finally got to his door, a census bag was on
the knob. Federal regulations.
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School
Budget Passes
Turnout Higher, But Once Again Olive Voters Give
Onteora A Thumbs Down
5/20/2010
By Lisa Childers
Voters at the Tuesday May 18 Onteora district
school elections approved the 2010-2011 budget
of $50,022,026, which represented a .31 percent
budget increase.
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