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SUMMER
FUN... All throughout Olive these days, kids are having
fun in camp or, if at home, getting all they can out of whatever
the back yard has to offer...
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New Board In Motion
Onteora Reorganizes With Call For New Trustees As
Public Decries Shot Glasses
7/16/2009
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora district board of education reorganization
meeting on July 7 was lengthy, but provided the new
board a night of process, working through business
as usual and tackling contentious topics.
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It
Takes Many Villages...
Catskill Center Turns 40 This Weekend
With A Stupendous Regional Bash
7/16/2009
By Paul Smart
A few years ago, Catskill Center founder Sherrett
Chase — whose name will be mentioned much
this coming Saturday, July 18, when the region’s
top home-bred environmental organization celebrates
its 40th birthday – sat with Kenny, his
wife of 60 plus years, and told of how he’d
proposed marriage in the summer of 1941.
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Watch
Your Tomatoes
Late Blight, Which Caused The Irish
Potato Famine, Has Come To Us Now
7/16/2009
Paul Smart
The press release that went out from Cornell Cooperative
Extension on July 6 seemed innocuous enough, at least
in its title: “Home Gardeners Asked to Be on the
Lookout for Destructive Vegetable Disease.”
Until you started really reading it…
“Home gardeners need to be on the lookout for Late
Blight – a very destructive and very infectious
disease that’s infecting tomato and potato plants
in gardens,” it reads.
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Quietly,
The World Turns
Town Board Finds Insurance Savings,
Moves Closer Towards Sewer Solution
7/16/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
At Shandaken’s last town
board meeting before the local
political season goes in to full
swing with its summer caucuses,
which kick off Thursday when local
Republicans gather at Glenbrook
Park, things ended up unusually
low key. It was announced that
the town was going to save upwards
of $30,000 by switching insurance
companies, and the audience was
told that a new sewer plan for
Phoenicia was officially being
studied and that a stormwater
retro-fit program for Pine Hill
is finally underway.
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SHANDAKEN
ARTS... Are where it’s at
July 17 through 19. In addition to the big
tour talked up on page 5 inside, get to
the Phoenicia openings Saturday night from
6:00 to 9:00 PM, including Arts Upstairs
new “Exploring New Worlds” exhibit
and the show of new works by Conor Durand
(seen above) at Cabane Studio & Gallery.
http://www.ShandakenArt.com
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