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Mountain To Tap is the name of the 3-
week trek 12 students from NYC and the watershed are making following
the drinking water’s course. See more inside on Page 11.
Bad
Decisions Stand, Too
Judge Rules In Poncic Case: The Process Was Correct,
No Matter The Outcome 7/19/2007
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Just days prior to a planned rally to keep up the momentum to
stop a water harvest project in the Woodland Valley neighborhood
of Phoenicia, State Supreme Court Justice John C. Egan Jr. issued
his decision in the matter, stating that the Shandaken Planning
Board acted appropriately when it issued the approval last fall.
“The planning board undertook the requisite hard look analysis
of the environmental impact of the project and arrived at a well
reasoned conclusion in approving the same,” he wrote.
In other words, you can legislate how evidence is looked at, but
you can’t prove a decision is wrong, even when it’s
hugely unpopular.
Stunned by the verdict, opponents decided to appeal Egan’s
decision.
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OCS’s
New Leadership
7/19/2007
By Lisa Childers
Olive resident Mary Jane Bernholz took the helm as school
board president of the Onteora Central School district at
a July 10 reorganization meeting in Boiceville. Trustee Rita
Vanacore nominated her with Herb Rosenfeld casting a second
motion. Trustee Cindy O’Connor, also of Olive, was elected
as Vice President, nominated by Maxanne Resnick with a second
from newly elected Richard Wolff. Both were voted in by a
unanimous decision.
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Water
Tragedy
A
Columbia County woman drowned in the Esopus Creek
Sunday after her kayak overturned in Mount Tremper
and lodged in a tree that flooding dragged into the
water. Elaine A. Dier, 52, of Elizaville, was kayaking
on the Esopus with her husband, Kevin, and friends
on Sunday afternoon when her kayak overturned in the
swift current under the state Route 28 bridge, state
police at Ulster said.
Cataclysmic
Changes
New Climate Change Reports Predict
Increased Flooding, Ski Industry Demise
7/19/2007
By Paul Smart
A major new report from a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based
consortium of top scientists calling itself the Northeast
Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), itself a two-year
collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) and a team of more than 50 scientists and economists,
has pinpointed probable effects from current climate
change trends in our area, including the loss of the
Catskills and Berkshire region ski industries, increased
summer droughts and winter flooding, greater turbidity
in New York City’s drinking water (likely requiring
long-avoided filtration), and the inundation of waterfront
infrastructure throughout the Hudson Valley…
including most of the region’s current railroad
lines.
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A
Republican Slate’s Set
GOP Gives Nod To Two Non Members
As Dems Host Busy Field & Cross Ponders
7/19/2007
By Paul Smart
Maybe it was the rain, people were saying at the July
11 Shandaken Republic Caucus, that was keeping attendance
down slightly from that of the last few years. At
least all the old faces were here… if not many
new ones.
Not many surprises as well, unless one considers the
fact that the Grand Old Party, now officially in the
minority in Shandaken by 12 enrolled voters, decided
to open its nominations up to the non-enrolled for
the first time in recent years.
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Coalition
Going Broke
Legal Costs Puts Watershed Battlers On The Verge Of
Imploding Collapse
7/19/2007
By Olive Press Staff
Legal fees from a lawsuit against the Environmental
Protection Agency have almost emptied the bank
account of the Coalition of Watershed Towns.
On Monday, July 16 in Margaretville, the Coalition’s
Executive Committee collectively cringed when
President Patrick Meehan read a bill from Attorney
Kevin Young for services rendered. It was just
shy of $25,000.
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