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After
a summer season plagued with poor weather, Tubers finally
flocked to Phoenicia of late thanks to sunny blue skies, high
temps and high water in the Esopus, where local Tubologist Harry
Jameson proclaimed that primo tubing conditions prevailed..
Whither
The Poncic Case?
Town Planners Lean Towards Lenience In Their Workshop Preamble
To A Decision
8/3/2006By
Phoenicia Times Staff
The members of the Shandaken planning board held a workshop on
Tuesday, August 1st to discuss what they heard at last month’s
public hearing on the controversial water harvesting project slated
for Woodland valley in Phoenicia, and the majority of the board
seem ready to grant permission to the plan, which calls for large
trucks to run in and out of the valley on a daily basis.
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Tax
Lawsuits To Continue
Despite A Dismissal On Technical Issues, Civil Rights Issues, Grievances
Persist 8/3/2006
By Paul Smart
The Article 78 lawsuit brought against the Town of Shandaken by
20 landowners last autumn, charging that the town had improperly
revaluated its parcels over 20 acres in size without due process
opportunities, was dismissed by Ulster County Supreme Court Judge
Michael Kavanagh on technical terms on July 17.
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What
If The City Filters?
Answering
Questions About Local
Effects If The EPA Decides Its Time
8/3/2006
By Phoenicia Times
Staff
Much has been said about the consequences the City of New York
faces should the Federal Government decide this year that current
programs are not adequately protecting the City’s water
supply, but according to local watershed officials there would
be consequences upstate too.
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Route
28 Closures?
State DOT Looks To Deep Culvert Repairs While 23A Diversion
Brings New Business
8/3/2006By
Paul Smart
Damage from this summer’s rains, while not as much as expected
on a private, homeowners level, may turn out to be more disruptive
than at first assessed as state road crews eye the closure of
Route 28 to replace a deep culvert in the Boiceville area later
this month, possibly detouring traffic through Woodstock for at
least a month, and the work to repair a large section of state
Route 23A in Hunter that slid down Kaaterskill Clove stretches
on into late autumn and possibly early winter.
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FREE
Movie Screening "Why
We Fight" at the Boiceville Inn, Tuesday August
8 @ 7 PM. Plus: "Intelligence" with Special
invited guest speakers writer David Smilow and director
Mike Gaylin.
Lang’s
New Woodstock...
8/3/2006By
Paul Smart
He’s been the face of Woodstock for the 37
years he’s lived in the area, after moving
up from Florida in 1969 with the idea of producing
a major Aquarian Festival tied to the name of the
increasingly-famous town that had become home to
Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, and similar rock
and roll icons from the heyday of the Sixties Youth
Culture.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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