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DOG DAY AFTERNOON... Shandaken
will "go to the dogs" on Sunday, October 24 to raise
money for a much needed new dog kennel behind town hall. Featured:
a concert by the Catskill Mountain Music Guild, demonstrations
by Chad Storey and his police dog, "A Parade of Dogs",
raffles, food and beverages donated by area restaurants. Here
you see POGO who has been lost in Mt. Tremper for a week. if you
see him, call: 688 7090
Phoenician Prototype
Sella Pushes Reading Upgrades At School As Board Sets Commissions
By Paul Smart
What had seemed to be a setback for the Phoenicia Elementary School
when its fourth graders scored slightly lower than expected on
profiency tests in English Language Arts, and reading especially,
may be turning out to be a benefit in the long run.
At the October 5 meeting of the Onteora School Board, trustees
passed a resolution for the adoption of Local Assistance Plans
designed to raise test scores for Fourth Grade English Language
Arts at the Phoenicia School, as well as 8th grade ELA and Math
test scores at the Middle School.
Phoenicia Principal Linda Sella described our school's new plan
to decrease discrepancy between students with disabilities and
the general student body, and raise the overall testing benchmark
to meet new state standards, by creating a new basal system of
teaching materials that will stress consistency between grades,
and start working on reading remediation via alternative means
of "pushing in" and "pulling aside" techniques.
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Studio Stu! From
Brooklyn
To Boiceville...
By Paul Smart
Studio Stu says you can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you
can never take the Brooklyn out of a boy like him.
Studio Stu, known throughout the Hudson Valley, the Northeast
even, as the iconoclastic emcee with a jazzy beatnik persona,
ad-libbing as he plucks away on his one-of-a-kind Studivar-ious
washtub bass, says he still hankers after the city. But then,
he adds, there's nothing like looking out on the Catskills when
he gets off the road each week to spend time at home with his
family in Olive. .
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Down To The Wire
Cross Says Town Budget Hike Will Stay Under 6 Percent, Despite
Rising Rates
By Paul Smart
According to Town Law, a tentative town budget has to be submitted
to all town board members by October 5 of each year. According
to Shandaken supervisor Bob Cross, Jr., he was all ready to
have his plan for the coming fiscal year to town clerk Laurilyn
Frasier, and then into everyone's mail boxes, by the prescribed
date when he noticed discrepancies in the paperwork he'd been
given by the town's accounting firm, Sperry, Cuono, Holgate
and Churchill.
"They had different numbers from what I gave them,"
he says of the missed deadline. "I couldn't get them
until Thursday morning (October 7), so I ended up not getting
anything into people's mailboxes until Friday.
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Time For Our Sewer?
Town Negotiating For Site Purchase After a Half Dozen Years'
Waiting
By Paul Smart
The past, the present and the future all demanded action
at the monthly Shandaken town board meeting held Monday,
October 3.
The future of Phoenicia was given what everyone's hoping
to be a decisive boost with the unanimous passage of a board
resolution to authorize supervisor Bob Cross, Jr. to begin
negotiating a contract/option for the eventual purchase
of property on which to build a long-awaited $11 million
wastewater treatment plant to be funded by New York City's
Department of Environmental Protection. Public discussion
of the move questioned the appropriateness of entering negotiations
without public knowledge of any details regarding the possible
transaction, including property location or price. But Cross
and Charles Frasier, chairman of the committee that's been
working towards building of the plant for the last seven
years, noted that all details of the deal will have to go
through a public process should an option to buy be negotiated.
It was further pointed out that a previous attempt to purchase
property for a plant, in 1998, fell through partly because
of the public nature of the initial negotiations.
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