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NEW
STARTS... Students throughout the Onteora School District
took to the buses Tuesday morning, September 8, with a mixture
of emotions as they returned to old friends and routines, but
new classes and at times new schools. Let’s all drive carefully
now... and wish them all great luck!
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Payphones Going
Verizon Say They’re No Longer Feasible Despite Lack
Of Any Viable Cell Service
9/10/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
They were once upon a time important fixtures along the local
landscape and beyond. Convenient for any communication, they
were also the go-to device in roadway emergencies, to report
fires, crime, etc.
But now public pay phones have not only taken a back seat
to today’s cell phone, but they have been kicked to
the curb altogether by Verizon, the company that once had
dozens of payphones along the Route 28 corridor at gas stations,
delis and other gathering spots.
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Teachers
Aren’t Happy
175 Show Up To Protest As Onteora Board Adds Two New Members,
Kurnit & Hickey
9/10/2009
By Lisa Childers
Onteora teachers and non-teachers walked a picket line at
Woodstock Elementary school for approximately 25 minutes
leading up to Tuesday night’s September 8 school board
meeting. According to teacher Mike Kocher, over 175 union
employees of the district marched silently, carrying signs
in front of where the Onteora School board sat in executive
session.
Budget
Season Opens
Big Split Between Spending & Cutting Seems Key In Shandaken
Talks, Too
9/10/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The budget process has begun this year in Shandaken with two of
the most expensive departments hitting the ground running, asking
for new vehicles, and another department head asking for extra,
unbudgeted help for this year.
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Internationally
acclaimed Celtic music master Brian McNeill
will be at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia
on Sunday, September 20, at 7:30 pm. McNeill spent
six years as Head of Scottish Music at the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The Museum
is on Lower High Street. The Flying Cat Music Concerts
present nationally and regionally acclaimed musicians.
Be there.Cat Music Concerts present nationally and
regionally acclaimed musicians. Be there.
Who’s
Getting Our Cats?
Whether It’s Fishers Or Coyotes, The Key Is
To Remember A Pet Can Be Prey
9/10/2009
By Paul Smart
We’ve
heard it’s all the talk in local bank lines,
and we began getting impassioned e-mails from
grieving pet owners weeks back.
Throughout the past month, there has been a growing
number of reports from up and down the Esopus
Valley regarding missing cats.
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Contractor
Licensing Raised
County Legislature Considering What Half The Country
Does Already For Protection
9/10/2009
By Phoenicia Times Staff
The Ulster County Legislature’s Labor Relations
Committee has begun discussion of a proposed law,
tentatively known as the Ulster County Commercial
Construction and Home Improvement Contractor License
Law, that is being touted as both a means of protecting
property owners and other county residents from
the shoddy workmanship of unscrupulous contractors,
as well as an inadvertent way of raising the cost
of home construction and improvement, and adding
another layer of bureaucracy to local life.
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