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Mother's
Day and what comes to mind as much as our dear moms? Kids, of
course, like these camping out at the recent Truck Festival in
Oliverea, now hopefully an annual affair.
Watching
The Streams Flow
First Ashokan Watershed Conference Stresses Better Stewardship
For All
5/6/2009
By Cindy Johansen
The first annual Ashokan Watershed Conference was held on
Saturday, May 1 at the Belleayre Mountain Overlook Lodge.
Funded by New York City Environmental Protection and hosted
by the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, Ulster
County Cornell Cooperative Extension and Ulster County Soil
& Water Conservation District, the conference focused
on floodplain and stormwater management for municipalities,
commercial and homeowner concerns. Approximately 65 to 70
people were in attendance with the majority (by a show of
hands) being homeowners, alongside a good representation from
local town, zoning and planning boards.
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Keep
On Trucking, Now
Three Days Of Music & Peace Unfold Stress Free With
Good Times Flowing
5/6/2009
By Dakota Lane
With all the freak natural and unnatural tragedies of the
last few weeks- earthquakes and oil spills, broken water
mains and ash over Europe - there was one freak thing that
turned out beautifully...
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Dual
Tracks On Fracking
DEC's Final Approach to Statewide Gas
Drilling Regs Draws Mixed Reception
5/6/2009
By Brian Powers
After months of pressure from environmental groups and the
City of New York, state regulators announced April 23 that
applications for natural gas drilling in the city's watershed,
along with another smaller one outside Syracuse, would be
excluded from a pending statewide environmental review process
now expected to be in place by the end of the year. Instead,
Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete
Grannis announced that within these two watersheds "there
must be an additional review process which may result in
associated regulatory and other controls on drilling."
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WENDY
DROLMA, known for her art as well as her craft,
is opening a new studio/gallery featuring her great
masks, long a key element in Cirque de Soleil productions,
on the Boardwalk in Phoenicia, behind 60 Main Street,
with a reception on Saturday, May 15 from 7:00 PM
on. Be there... and be ready for some great costuming,
maybe even personality shifts...
A
Sewer Solution Proceeds
CWC Okays Phoenicia Bid For Planning Help, Pine Hill
In A Temporary Stalemate
5/6/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The Catskill Watershed Corporation's Wastewater
Committee met Tuesday, May 4 to consider whether
the CWC should get involved with Phoenicia's long
festering sewer debate. Meanwhile, at Shandaken
Town Hall, another sewer plan - this one for an
extension to Pine Hill's sewer system - was held
back as lawyers were sent back to the drawing
board to straighten out extension allowing language.
The regional entity, brought together as part
of the 1997 Memorandum of Agreement that allowed
new New York City regulations for its vast upstate
watershed holdings in exchange for major new investments
in Catskill towns and counties, seemed poised
to go ahead with management of Phoenicia's sewer
system from here on in. But it moved with clear
trepidation about the shifting sands of Shandaken
politics.
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Farm
Stand
Meeting Planned On Town's Hot Subject
5/6/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
It comes up every year, right along with the dandelions:
The issue of how to best handle the roadside farm
stand industry and what type of laws, if any,
need to be added to the zoning books to keep the
growth in check.
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School
Vote May 18
No Board Races, But A Tough Budget Still Needs
Support To Save Programs
5/6/2009
By Lisa Childers
Voters in the Onteora School district will go
to the polls Tuesday, May 18. Two propositions
will be put before district voters, the first
of which is the budget for the coming school year.
The second proposition will be to approve a seven-passenger
vehicle.
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