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SAVED
FROM ILLEGAL TRAPS... Kelly Ward of
Phoenicia savors her best friends, Bo and Franklin...
An
Historic Referendum
Popular Hamlet Watershed Program Hits Major Oppositional Snag In
Phoenicia 12/7/2006By
Phoenicia Times Staff
It’s a first in the region. After several other communities
have gladly participated in a watershed partnership program to
bring New York City funded waste treatment programs to hamlets
and villages that need them, a highly vocal contingent in Phoenicia,
unhappy with the lack of details about long term costs to commercial
users, has secured enough signatures to force the matter to a
referendum vote and therefore putting the fate of the project
at risk.
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Prepared
To Do Battle
Town Hires Drayton Grant To Defend Planners In Lawsuit Over Poncic
Decision
12/7/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
On Tuesday night the Shandaken Planning was scheduled to meet
in private with their new attorney, Drayton Grant, who has been
hired to represent the town of Shandaken against a lawsuit filed
last month over the planning board’s approval of Andrew
Poncic’s Water Harvesting plan for Woodland Valley in Phoenicia.
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Secret
Meetings Continue
Crossroads Project Talks Gag Order’s Still On While EPA
Hears Pro-Developer Pitch
12/7/2006
By Paul Smart
Shhhhh… meetings are happening. Shhhhhhh…. They have
to do with Dean Gitter and his controversial proposal to build
the 1000-plus room Belleayre Resort in Shandaken, a process that’s
been stalled for the past year as a state Department of Environmental
Conservation judge’s ruling to send to trial a dozen environmental
issues surrounding the proposal is appealed by Gitter’s
attorneys.
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Whither
Goes The Winter...
As Global Warming Rides In, Smaller
Catskills Ski Resorts Are Starting To Fail
12/7/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
By Paul Smart
Three years ago, at a major conference on the state
of the worldwide ski industry in Turin, Italy, worries
about the effects of global warming on winter sports
first surfaced seriously. With snowfall growing increasingly
unpredictable around the world due to climate change,
it was predicted that Europe’s once robust ski
industry was already 15 percent off its previous peak.
In Australia, a complete collapse of ski resort business
was expected by mid-century. And in North America,
all the talk was about keeping the damage control
to southern ski slopes started in recent years, smaller
operations at lower elevations, and battling consumer
perceptions about what was happening to the weather.
Killed
By An Illegal Trap
Growing Number Of Injured Canines Points Up Changing
Land Use Patterns
12/7/2006
By Violet Snow
A dog was killed by a body trap illegally set on
private property, and two dogs have suffered minor
injuries from foothold traps in Wilson State Park
since November 27. As trapping incidents involving
pets proliferate, alarmed dog owners are considering
ways to get the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) take action to protect pets and
children. The DEC, which regulates fur trapping
throughout the state, is currently investigating
the three incidents.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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