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A
fatal accident apparently occurred in Broadstreet
Hollow Saturday night, September 6, when Tim Phelan, a local carpenter
and drummer, was killed when the truck he was a passenger in hydroplaned
into a tree. And then there was this Labor Day accident, where
a youngster was reportedly airlifted out of Woodland Valley. Be
careful... more details to come.
The
Cuts Hit Home
Belleayre Ready To Get Major Budget Hits As State Seems To Give
It A Thumbs Up
9/11/2008
By Paul Smart
Sometimes the state takes away simultaneous to its giving. Just
ask anyone with a connection to Belleayre Mountain Ski Center,
which has had some major ups and downs over the past week…
and looks to be headed for more downs in the months to come, now.
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Still
Smartening Up
The Central Catskills’ Collaborative Keeps Plugging
Away At A New Regionalism
9/11/2008
By Charlie Blumstein
The Central Catskills Collaborative held their September meeting
outdoors last Thursday evening, September 4, at Davis Park
in the Olive hamlet of West Shokan where members and the public
were treated to some down home Olive hospitality in the form
of a wood-fired pizza potluck dinner created by several advisory
members of the Collaborative. The CCC is a regional planning
group formed to budget and spend $500,000 in state Smart Growth
funds made available to municipalities in the Route 28 corridor
under the advisory direction of Peter Manning, Regional Planner
at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development.
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From
Herbs To Hands On
Adelinda Hyde Grows Her Business From Home To Phoenicia
Healing Arts Center
9/11/2008
By Violet Snow
Phoenicia resident Adelinda Hyde named her business, Oak
Hollow Herbals, after the tree that saved her life. “I
had a serious car accident in 1993,” she recalls.
“If it wasn’t for that oak tree, I would be
dead. I use its name in gratitude.”
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Cleaning
Up Our Town
Town Mulls New Laws For Hotel Debris
Mess And Burgeoning Farm Stands
9/11/2008
Phoenicia Times Staff
As the days grow shorter and the leaves
turn and fall, Shandaken’a Town
Board, planning board, zoning board, officials
with code enforcement offices and even
the superintendent of highways have started
to find themselves embroiled in efforts
to clean up a number of visible messes
that have been haunting local government,
and residents, for quite some time, with
hopes of finding ways to remedy them all
before the winter comes.
Clearing
The Water?
Onteora Board Hits On Solution For Muddy
HS H2O, Mulls New Lockers
9/11/2008
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora district school board settled
on the purchase of greensand water filtration
system in order to eliminate the Manganese
and Iron from schools at the Boiceville
campus.
At Tuesday night’s, September 9 school
board meeting at Woodstock elementary, the
board, in a split decision will seek the
most expensive system not to exceed $85,000
compared to two less expensive systems that
would not remove the minerals, but would
cause the brown water to clear up.
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WHAT
IS THAT? Check
out Jen Holz’s On The Farm column inside for a chilling
story of visitation prompted by son Josh’s above photo.
What’s going on? Are we about to become like a battleground
state here? Or just the birthplace of another Orson Welles? Read
on and remember, a bit of skepticism is never that bad a thing,
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