We’re
All Greenway Now
Town Finally Joins Up The With State’s
Biggest Intermunicipal Planning Project
8/14/2008
By Phoenicia Times Staff
At the August 4 Shandaken town meeting,
the board decided unanimously to allow
Shandaken to become a Hudson River Valley
Greenway Community alongside such neighbors
as Olive, Woodstock, Denning, and 289
other municipalities up and down the greater
Hudson Valley.
Prioritizing
Belleayre?
State Budget Crunch Worris Some That Resort
& Ski Center Funds Will Be Cut
7/31/2008
By Paul Smart
Two weeks ago, Governor David Paterson gave
a major speech in which he recognized the
fact that New York State was in a recession
and likely to lose major revenue streams
in the coming years. To close a widening
deficit, he suggested a 7 percent belt-tightening
for all state agencies and departments,
$600 million in cuts from expenditures under
his own Executive control, and another $600
million in cuts to be made by the state
legislature, which he called back to session
starting August 19.
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Entirely
New Concerns
Onteora Board Votes Down Large Parcel, Opens
Talks On Various District Problems
7/3/2008
By Lisa Childers
In
a meeting that went long after midnight,
the Onteora School Board voted on August
5 five-to-one not to enact the Large Parcel
Legislation that would apportion the taxes
paid by the Ashokan Reservoir evenly throughout
the Onteora School District. School board
trustee Maxanne Resnick was the lone dissenter
among the trustees. Trustee Rick Wolff was
absent. The tax rolls have not yet been
established, so specific information about
who will pay what for the 2008-2009 school
year is not available.
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Kids
Columnist Sylvia Viola ended up holding on loyally
as her sheep dragged her at the Ulster County Fair recently. For
more on this and other 4H matters, see pages 11 and 36.
