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GRAVITAS...
Former Shandaken Town Board member Paul Van Blarcum
was sworn in Monday as Ulster County’s new sheriff by State
Supreme Court Judge Mike Kavanagh. The Democrat veteran of the
Ulster County Sheriff’s Office has two initial goals, to
gain approvals to move inmates to the new county jail and to form
his new drug and gang task force.
Who’s
Got The Power?
Town Board Majority Shows Its Muscle At The Annual
Reorganization Meeting 1/4/2007By
Phoenicia Times Staff
At the end of the Shandaken Town Board’s 2007 reorganization
meeting on January 2nd, as board members and audience members
were finding their way to the exits, the supervisor, looking confident
and triumphant, accused local press of “throwing bombs”
at him several times over the past year.
It was an interesting allegation, especially since many a bomb
had been thrown by the supervisor that afternoon, and when the
dust settled Tuesday the bodies were all over the place.
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11th
Hour Resort Ruling
Following Weeks Of Secret Talks, DEC Ends Up Splitting On Crossroads’
Issues
1/4/2007
By Paul Smart
An 11th hour decision from a Deputy Commissioner for the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation was released just
before the close of business for the Pataki Administration last
Friday, December 29, invoking both hope and quiet anger from those
for and against Dean Gitter’s long-proposed Belleayre Resort
project, which seeks to build over 1,000 hotel, condominium and
private dwelling homes on currently vacant lands along the ridgeline
on either side of the DEC-owned and operated Belleayre Mountain
Ski Center.
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Introducing
Ms. Ford...
Onteora’s New Superintendent Set To Start
February 12 With Confidence
1/4/2007By
Lisa Childers
Dr. Leslie Goldring Ford, the Onteora school district’s
new superintendent, discussed her anticipated move to New York
and addressed concerns from the president of the teachers union,
Corey Cavallaro, on her alleged lack of experience recently.
Ford, from California will begin a three-year contract on February
12 at $155,000 per year.
She acknowledged through a series of emails that she realized
some in the school community might be skeptical.
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Keeping
The Campus Alive
The Open Space Institute Steps In
To Help Jay & Molly Take Over From SUNY
1/4/2007
By Paul Smart
When local contra dance faves Jay Ungar and Molly
Mason rang in the new year at the big dance that culminated
their annual New Year’s Winter Camp weekend
at the Ashokan Field Camp in Olive last Monday morning,
they did so with even more gusto and excitement than
any of the past 26 years they’ve been playing
at the rustic site. That’s because they’re
likely to be owners of the campus’ 372 acres,
and numerous buildings, within the next year…
given all those things that should go right in such
a major property sale go as currently planned and
agreed upon.
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Storyteller
Alan
Eisenson of Shokan
1/4/2007
By Paul Smart
Alan
Eisenson of Shokan – Just Alan to most of us
who remember his store of the same name in Woodstock,
now open weekends in its older location on Route 28
in Olive – has long maintained a second life
beyond his work as a shopkeeper of renowned taste
and storytelling prowess.
For those
with a keen interest in prestidigitation – magic,
in layman’s terms – Alan has long been
considered a master, a magician’s magician,
as it were.
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