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TONY’s
TIGERS... Belleayre Mountain Ski Center
Superintendent Tony Lanza again regaled his assembled high-end
guests at the annual Snowball fundraiser for a rousing rendition
of the late Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,”
with Shandaken police department headman Jimmy McGrath, Coalition
to Save Belleayre head honcho Joe Kelly and State Senator Dean
Skelos as “Pips” to the energetically upbeat “booster
man.”
The
Sewer Vote!
Phoenicia Referendum On City-Funded Wastewater System
Set For Saturday 2/1/2007By
Phoenicia TImes Staff
Its decision time in Phoenicia, where the debate over whether
to build a sewer system has raged for three years and continues
right up to the referendum on the project.
That referendum is scheduled for Saturday, February 3rd at the
Phoenicia Firehouse. Voting takes place between 7am and 8pm.
The proposition itself is long winded, but in general terms a
yes vote means you support the project and a no vote means you
oppose it.
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Closing
Up The Mission
New York Archdiocese Closes Up Allaben’s Lady Of Lourdes
Church
2/1/2007By
Gary Alexander
Some local parishioners have been thinking that the church works
in mysterious ways. Gene Gormley, for instance, who is president
of the parish council for Saint Francis de Sales Church in Phoenicia,
is still puzzling over why the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New
York, which presides over more than 400 parishes, decided that
the mission churches of his parish, Our Lady of LaSalette in Boiceville
and Our Lady of Lourdes in Allaben, were ordered closed by the
Archdiocesan Realignment Panel (ARAP).
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Welcome, Leslie Ford!
New Onteora Superintendent Set To Start February 2 To A Host
Of Thorny Issues
2/1//2007By
Lisa Childers
When Leslie Ford, the Onteora School District’s new superintendent,
takes on her new job February 12, what will she be facing?
Among other things, a new report on the district’s troubled
Special Education Department from interim assistant of pupil
personnel, Jim Walker, who noted at the district’s January
23 school board meeting at Phoenicia School that Onteora has
approximately 15.83 percent of its students using special education
services, the state average, but will likely be needing more
extensive services in the future because of new testing guidelines
resulting from the No Child Left Behind Act and now mandatory
regent testing.
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Hinchey
Gets His Ovation
U.S. Congressman Draws SRO Chamber
Crowd While Still Taking On The Resort
2/1/2007By
Paul Smart
On the eve of being named one of the top contenders
for appointment to Senator Hillary Clinton’s
job should the former first lady be elected President
next year, Congressman Maurice Hinchey gave one of
his now-trademark fiery speeches as keynote speaker
at the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural
monthly breakfast meeting for 2007.
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 Spitzer
Names A New Enviro-Commissioner
2/1/2007By
Paul Smart
With the naming of not only a new state Departmental
of Environmental Conservation commissioner known as
environmentally-friendly and “can-do,”
but a top-level executive consultant on environmental
issues with a sterling green reputation, the role
of the Catskill Region’s most influential state
agency seems destined for big changes in the coming
years of the Spitzer administration.
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DEC
Deputy Commissioner issues a ruling on the Belleayre
Resort - 6 Issues to be adjudicated Download
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