PLAY
BALL... Local Little League’s already underway,
as these images show from Dion Ogust. Starting Saturday morning,
May 10, Babe Ruth League also starts up over in refurbished Davis
Park in West Shokan. Woodstock,Olive,and Shandaken all have various
teams... Guess it’s almost summer!
Saving
Habeas Corpus...
Part 2 of a Dialogue With The Catskills’ Civil Rights
Crusader, Michael Ratner
5/8/2008
By Gary Alexander
A favored method of forcing confessions during the Spanish
Inquisition was a form of suffocating water torture called
“toca”- which is similar to the controversial
practice of “waterboarding” used on detainees
at Guantanamo Bay and at secret CIA “rendition”
camps in other countries. The process, applied to American
POWs during World War II by their Japanese captors, was called
“the water cure” and was regarded as a war crime
at the International Tribunal in Toyko following the war..
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Our
Last Farmers
History Lives...
5/8/2008
By Charlie Blumstein
John Ingram
of Glad Kipt Kill farm in Olivebridge, the last remaining
diversified working farm in Olive is the quintessential
countryman of yore having a very wide range of farming knowledge
and skills such as animal husbandry, draft horse training
and use, tractor operator and farm mechanic, pasture and
woodlot management, sawyer and sawmill mechanic... among
others. Add in his membership in the Olive Fire Co. 1 and
part time position as Town of Olive zoning enforcement officer
and assistant building inspector and you have one very busy
farmer who also requires off-farm income to help make ends
meet.
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5-8
At The High School
Onteora
Redistricting To Close Phoenicia, Move Towards
District Consolidation
5/8/2008 By Lisa Childers
The Onteora district school board has collectively
agreed to increase the Middle School by adding
grades five and six at the central campus in
Boiceville. New construction will be required
to the Middle School and the school board supported
closing an elementary school due to low enrollment.
The decision was for formalized at a May 6 meeting/
Although a formal vote on which school will
be closed will not occur until the very end
of the current board’s term, on June 30,
several board members have said at recent meetings
that it would be Phoenicia.
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The
Onteora Candidates
Four Challenge Three Incumbents For Open Seats,
With One Stepping Back
5/8/2008
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora school district board of education
has eight candidates vying for four seats in
this years May 20 election, although one - 18
year old High School senior, as much as stepped
back from his candidacy in supprot of a slate
of four challenging the race’s three incumbents
at a Meet The Candidates event in Boiceville
the evening of May 5.
. The three incumbents, Mary Jane Bernholz,
Cindy O’Connor and Rita Vanacore are running
as a block in support of a district reconfiguration
including a five-through-eight middle school.
Donna Flayhan, Ralph Legnini, Laurie Osmond
and Ann McGillicuddy are running as a slate
against the district reconfiguration, noting
that it would force a school to close, among
other effects.
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What’s
Up With The City?
Questions Abound About The State’s New Role
In Upstate/Downstate Relations
5/8/2008
By Paul Smart
One of the bigger local questions of recent weeks,
at least in Catskills communities, is why New
York City decided to not only settle its long
string of tax assessment lawsuits with the Town
of Olive, but do so for the next decade.
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