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The
red and yellow tulips have begun blooming to celebrate
the quadricentennial anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration
of the Hudson ! Last Fall, volunteers planted hundreds of tulip
bulbs at various places throughout town. The Shandaken Historical
Museum in Pine Hill organized most of the tulip planting along
the Rt. 28 corridor, with bulbs supplied by the county.
The
Esopus Is Dying
Invasive Algae Takes Over Creekbed As Worries Build
About Saving Tributaries
5/7/2009
By Paul Smart
Is the Esopus Creek, long fabled as one of modern
trout fishing’s historic spawning grounds, now
destined to become a dead zone for the browns, brookies
and rainbows that once drew Babe Ruth and hosts of
other flyfishermen and women to its shores?
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Political
Symmetry
Town’s Sewer & Infrastructure Projects Progress
As Election Issues Get Floated
5/7/2009
By Brian Powers
In
an interesting parallel between local and national
politics, forward movement on Phoenicia’s
sewer system, Route 28 repaving, a seasonal produce
stand law and other issues seemed secondary to
politics as prominent town Republicans questioned
such developments as improperly handled or doomed-to-failure
at the town board’s May 5th meeting.
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Woof
Woof
Dog Law Leashed For A Second Try
5/7/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Shandaken officials presented a first draft of an updated
town law regarding canines at their Monday, May 4 meeting,,
but many at a public hearing on the matter said they felt
the town board was barking up the wrong tree with what
is planned.
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School
Board Vote
Budget Lower Than Contingency, No
Race For Candidates, But Turnout
Crucial
4/23/2009 By Lisa Childers &
Phoenicia Times Staff
On Tuesday, May 19, Onteora
voters head to the ballot booths set up
at each of the district’s four elementary
schools (with West Hurley opening for
the event), from 2 to 9 PM, to pass a
new school budget for the coming year,
elect three school board members from
three candidates on the ballot (with rumors
of a fourth and possible fifth write-in
candidacy unconfirmed as of presstime),
and give the thumbs up or down to a pair
of ballot initiatives asking for new transportation
vehicles and the shiftiung of funds from
a capital balance to cover costs for the
high school’s in-progress auditorium
renovation.
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THE
BEST OF MONTY PYTHON, a Dinner Theater Extravaganza
by the Listen To Me Youth Theater, will be
unfolding at the Phoenicia Parish Hall- MAY
15 &16 at 8pm and May 17 at 1pm &
6pm. Get there early for food!
Wreaking
Rural Havoc
Food Safety Questions Keep Rising
With The Recent Incidence Of Swine
Flu
5/7/2009
By Gary Alexander
Lawmakers who have been surprised, even slightly
shaken, by the public response to this season’s
grumbling “food safety” bills, have
launched what Walter Olson, at his always-fun
“Overlawyered” website, calls an
“aggressive campaign of reassurance”
to defend the Food Safety Modernization Act
of 2009 or, as another internet wag calls it...
the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
of Food.
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