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NEW ART... The Arts Upstairs Gallery, at 60 Main Street in Phoenicia, is seeking entries for its next show, “Unusual Ornaments and Small Hanging Works of Art”. The entry fee is $1 per piece. Drop-off times are from 10 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday, November 20 and 21 and November 27 and 28. The show will open with a reception on Friday, December 3, 2004 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and run until January 2, 2005.


Back To The Future
Town’s Latest Comprehensive Plan Draft Quietly Evokes Deja Vu Again...

By Brian Powers
The consultant hired by Shandaken’s current Comprehensive Plan Committee presented most of a new draft plan for the town Monday night, and if the number of questions over phrases like “large scale terrain-altering development” are any indicator, we should probably expect to hear more, and soon.

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Rules Of Engagement
Onteora’s Indie Programs Defend Their Push For Making Much-Needed Changes

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By Paul Smart
Spurred on by a series of verbal complaints delivered at its November 3 workshop meeting in Boiceville, along with what some board members described as a “blistering” letter to district administrators, the Onteora Central School District heard an impassioned defense, and explanation, of the high school’s pioneering Indie, Aspie, and brand-new-this-semester Community School programs at its November 16 regular meeting in Phoenicia.

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Home Again

Kate McGloughlin
Paints A World She Deeply Knows

By Paul Smart
Kate McGloughlin's got deep roots. The Olivebridge house she lives in was her grandmother's. Her mother and uncles all live within walking distance. Looking out the tall windows that fill one wall of her north-facing studio, out onto a classic fallow-field foreground Catskills' view, she can describe the changes in every furrow, every fencepost.
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