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IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN... Where the rabbits get confused with chickens and we all start wondering why, with the days longer, it’s still not warm enough to melt the snow.


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Robin Williams Hangs At The Pre-School While Shooting New Film In The Area...

By Paul Smart
When she first heard that Robin Williams would be shooting a new film around the Reservoir Deli in Shokan, part of which she has rented to house her Discovery PreSchool for the past seven years, Cathy Johnan thought it might be fun to catch a glimpse of the famous funnyman. Maybe, she also admits to thinking, there could be the possibility of having him visit her students.

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Comp Plan Unveiled
Committee Signs Off On New Draft
Public Hearing Date Set for April 6

By Brian Powers
Almost two months behind its announced schedule, Shandaken’s third attempt in five years to draft a Comprehensive Plan was finally released to the public last week via the town’s website.
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The Onteora Budget
Winters Submits Figures As Olive Comes Out To Protest Large Parcel, Redistricting

By Paul Smart
Battle lines for the suspenseful May 17 Onteora budget vote and board elections were sharply delineated at an SRO meeting at the OCS Junior/Senior High School in Boiceville Tuesday night, March 15.

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Pastoral


A New Face For Our Wesleyans

By Paul Smart
Pastor Rodney Killam, who moved in to shepherd the Phoenicia and Willow Wesleyan congregations five years ago, says his work leading the services for young Kenny Umhey last Tuesday, March 16, may have been both one of the easiest and one of the hardest things he’s done in his career as a minister of the church.

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Proposed Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Shandaken
Draft – March 2005
Intro & History
Shandaken Today
Shandaken Tomorrow
Implementation
Next Steps
Appendix


 

The home of Deborah Rysinski and Kimber Krushinski on Park Road in Chichester was completely destroyed by a fast-moving fire early Monday morning, which the county's chief inspector called "probably electrical in nature." By the time the M.F.Whitney Hose company arrived just moments after the first 911 call, the house was fully engulfed. The couple made it out safely, their dogs did not. Everything they owned is gone.


Monetary donations can be sent to: Keybank, PO Box 36 Phoenicia, NY 12464 attn. "Benefit account for Kimber and Debbie."