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BEAR!
The hickory nuts are ripe, so beware of bears
in the shagbarks. Our ursine friends will be out and about until
November, so continue to be cautious about leaving trash, bird
feeders, and food-coated grills outdoors. Let’s keep the
bears in the woods, where they belong!
The
Resort?
This Week’s Report 9/27/2007
By Paul Smart
Dean Gitter was away for the first week after Governor Eliot Spitzer
came to town to approve a new way forward for his long-pending
Belleayre Resort development project for the Catskill Mountain
towns of Shandaken and Middletown. According to reliable sources,
he was up in Quebec looking at ski resorts in the Laurentians
for new ideas on the Highmount tie-in he was handed via the September
5 Memorandum of Agreement he signed with Spitzer, New York City
and seven of eleven environmental organizations that had been
opposing the project via a SEQRA process that had entered adjudication
two years ago.
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Railroad
Future Teeters
With Growing Pressures, And Funds, For Rail Trails, The CMRR
Gets Testy
9/27/2007
By Paul Smart
Questions about new county priorities to fund and construct
a $13 million plus rail trail from Kingston to the Delaware
County border along the old Ulster and Delaware rail tracks
that have been leased and maintained by the volunteers of
the Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) since the early 1980s,
and legally through 2016, are getting nerve-wracking, to say
the least. Even with all parties expressing a generalized
sense of consensus and amiability on the surface.
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It’s
Easy Being Green
Phoenicia School Shows District That A Can Do Attitude Works
Wonders
9/27/2007
By Lisa Childers
The common theme at the September 25 Onteora School Board
meeting was green. Not the color, but the term used these
days when thinking of the environment, sustainable energy
and saving money. Principal of Phoenicia School Linda Sella
gave a guided tour of her facility, which some have felt
was threatened with possible closure by the current board,
beginning with the library. What was once a cramped space
has been transformed into a bright, spacious room with light
colored desks and tables made out of bamboo. The carpet
was repaired and cleaned with an additional space used as
a computer lab requiring the removal of a wall. Most of
this was done by parent volunteers who volunteered their
expertise in construction and carpentry.
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Jail
Probe To Grand Jury
Todd Among Four Key Names Being Eyed For Possible Prosecution
9/27/2007
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Though no single action or smoking gun was found by
the special investigative committee formed by the
Ulster County Legislature looking into why the county
jail projected ended up so far over-budget and past
its deadlines, enough evidence of questionable decision-making
arose to move the matter over to the county District
Attorney’s office, which has been in the midst
of a simultaneous Grand Jury investigation has been
in the works since August 24.
Election
2000
Running
For Town Board
The Six Candidates and What Each
Of Them Would Like You To Know…
  
9/27/2007By
Brian Powers
Shandaken is governed by a voting majority of its
supervisor and four town board members. On November
6, the two board seats being vacated by the expiration
of Jane Todd and Joe Munster’s terms will be
filled from a field of six candidates, with each of
us voting for two. As Rob Stanley and Peter DiSclafani’s
terms continue through 2009, should the later be elected
Supervisor, both plus the two newly elected candidates
would appoint someone to serve out DiSclafani’s
board term.
Of the six people on the ballot, Tim Malloy and Pete
DiModica are on the Democratic line, with Vinnie Bernstein
and Jack Jordan on the Republican & Conservative
lines. Lynn O’Brophy has the Independence line
and both she and Jerry Pearlman each have their own
party lines. The six, alphabetically, are…
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