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SCARY TIME... On Sunday, October 30, Phoenicia's 6th Annual Halloween Parade will set up formation at 1:30 p.m. at Phoenicia School for a 2:00 p.m. Parade Start... down 214, up Main Street to Parish Hall, where donuts & cider courtesy Phoenicia Rotary, plus music by Ex-Files, will be provided. And you thought the election signs were a fright...HAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Meet The Candidates
League Of Women Voters Calls GOP Decision To Skip Debate ‘Unfortunate’

By Paul Smart
Fresh from a similar event sponsored by the Phoenicia Times’ sister publication in the Town of Olive on Saturday, October 22, Christine Henning, President of the League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region, and veteran debate moderator Emily Johnson of the same organization came to Shandaken to run a Meet The candidates event at Town Hall.

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Illegal Procedure?
20+ Acre landowners To File Against Shandaken’s 2005 Selective Revaluation

By Phoenicia Times Staff
The Shandaken Landowners Association has announced it will file a lawsuit against the town this week, claiming the current Cross administration illegally increased the taxes on several hundred private properties this year.

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Resort Compromise
Hinchey To Gitter: Cut Project In Half To Move Forward; Gitter To Hinchey: No Way

By Brian Hollander
U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey inserted himself into the controversy surrounding Dean Gitter's Crossroads Ventures proposal to build its Belleayre Resort project by proposing the developers drop all plans for the eastern, Ulster County end of the two hotel, two golf course project and instead concentrate on the western half.

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Government Day Glory!


Regionism With A Scenic Train Ride

By Brian Powers
The scenery last week was sublimely peak foliage but the scene was vintage 1940’s, as 120 local officials from throughout the region chugged out of Arkville’s railroad station for a spectacular 24 mile roundtrip along the East Branch of the Delaware to Roxbury and back.

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