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THE HEADLIGHTS... On Saturday, November
18, deer season starts again. For more about it all, see page
22 inside
Once
Again: All Dems!
County Races Run Anti-GOP, With Bonacic Protested
& A Close Charter OK 11/9//2006
By Paul Smart
As seems to be the new trend in both Ulster County and our town,
Tuesday night, when 2006 election results started coming in for
local and national Midterm races, was a time for Democrats to
feel power.
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An
Unacceptable Risk...
Spitzer’s Camp Calls Crossroads’ Resort Plans A Threat
To NYC Water Quality
11/9//2006
By Brian Powers
The state’s highest ranking official in charge of protecting
the City’s water supply has concluded that Crossroads Ventures’
“large scale mountaintop and mountainside development”
proposed for 1,250 acres east of the Belleayre Mountain Ski area
could imperil the quality of the Ashokan Reservoir and cost City
taxpayers billions of dollars by significantly undercutting “federal,
state, and city efforts to avoid the need to construct a…water
filtration plant.”
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Budget
Passes... Barely
Spending Cuts Talk Leads To Revelation About Belleayre’s
High Ambulance Cost
11/9/2006By
Phoenicia Times Staff
Running Shandaken will cost $4.3 million next year. That’s
the bottom line on the spending plan after the town board shaved
about $12,000 off of the preliminary package that Budget Officer/Supervisor
Robert Cross Jr. prepared last month. The budget brings a tax
increase of about 6.3 percent.
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Valley
Operatic
Shokan’s Woerner Releases a
New CD
11/9/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
By Violet Snow
“It took me a long time to come to classical
music,” says soprano Danielle Woerner of Shokan,
whose second CD of contemporary classical songs, Voices
of the Valley, is just out from Albany Records. The
daughter of two part-time professional musicians,
she rebelled against the omnipresence of classical
music in the house. Her father was also an engineer,
and he wired the whole house with speakers. “I
would open the bathroom linen closet, and Wagner would
be blaring out through the towels. I couldn’t
get away from it except by closing the door of my
room and playing protest songs on the guitar.”
Onteora’s
Future Now
Super Candidate Comes To District As Board Mulls Major
Repair Fund Bonds
11/9/2006
By Lisa Childers
The future has been looming large for the Onteora
School District of late, and looks to be key to
happenings In the district over the coming weeks
as stakeholders have been asked to attend a special
Meet the Candidate event at the high school to get
to know the woman all eyes are now looking at as
the next Onteora superintendent.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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