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READYING
FOR THE SOLSTICE... Cara Cruickshank
is back in town, getting kids ready for Joy In the World! A
Multicultural Festival of Light featuring guest performances
by the Mammals and Maputo Mensah from Ghana. at the STS Theater
in Phoenicia at 6 PM on Wednesday, December 21..
Ready
For Changes?
Onteora Begins The Process Of Mulling Eventual Elementary School
Closures
By
Lisa Childers & Paul Smart
A series of meetings in each of Onteora’s elementary schools,
including the closed-for-two-years West Hurley facility, have
been held in recent weeks with hired district facility consultants
Armand Quadrini and Scott Hillje, from KSQ architects, as to how
to best utilize and augment what OCS already has. The public meetings
were designed to both get the general parameters of the district’s
planning process to “stakeholders” within each school
community, and to hear suggestions and responses from those same
communities.
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Judging
The Judge Now
Gitter Strikes Out At Wissler For Using ‘Academic’
Considerations & Process
By
Paul Smart
Nearly matching the decision they are hoping to counter and block
page to page, attorneys for Crossroads Ventures, the Shandaken-based
development company hoping to build the proposed Belleayre Resort,
have filed a 157-page appeal with the state Department of Environmental
Conservation’s Deputy Commissioner.
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Feisty
At The Fire Department
Commissioners’ Election Gets A Real Race
By
Phoenicia Times Staff
If you thought election season was over in Shandaken last month,
you were wrong. Well, at least you were wrong if you live in the
Hamlets of Shandaken, Bushnellsville, Allaben, Phoenicia, Chichester,
Mount Pleasant and Mount Tremper that make up the Phoenicia Fire
District, which maintains three separate volunteer fire companies
on a total budget of $175,000 a year, paid for through property
taxes on lands within those hamlets.
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Chocolate
Rancher...
Lucky Is This Candymaker
By
Violet Snow
From ranch cook in Wyoming to Mt. Tremper chocolatière,
Rae Stang’s career path has been uniquely her own. The
proprietress of Lucky Chocolates on Route 28 has blended her
talents in cooking, art, and entrepreneurship to create a cozy
Old World candy store, filled with luscious and elegant treats
made with mostly organic ingredients.
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Administrative
Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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