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Saturday,
April 1 is something of a Holy Day
for many who treasure our town. That’s because that’s
the day when local fisherfolk can get back on to local streams,
including the hallowed Esopus, for another season of trout!
Rural
Degradation
Spotted Dog Sued By Former Employees For
History Of Sexual & Age Harassments
3/30/2006
By Paul Smart
According to Albany-based employment attorney Ronald Dunn of Gleason,
Dunn, Walsh and O’Shea, the case he filed March 6 with the
Northern District of U.S. District Court, on behalf of two former
Emerson Place employees against the complex’s Spotted Dog
Ventures LLC mother company, its accounting offshoot, Kaatskill
Payroll Services, and former Emerson CEO Ted Wright and employment
trainer Margaret Inge, “reads like a cheap novel.”
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Be
Ready!
Quiet Town Meeting Expected For April
3/30/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Bringing new meaning to the March phrase “in like a lion
and out like a lamb,” a move to require the Shandaken town
board to post all resolutions prior to its regular monthly meeting
was shot down in the beginning of the month by the town supervisor
after a hot debate, but this week Robert Cross Jr. said there’s
no big issues slated for next weeks town board meeting on Monday
April 3rd.
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The
Coalition Starts To Split
Hardenburgh Leads Break-Up Of Regional Entity As Cross Calls For
Ulster Meet-up
3/30/2006
By Paul Smart
Long predicted, the first cracks in the once-solidly unified Coalition
of Watershed Towns, which brought together 50 Catskills Region
towns, villages and county governments to fight proposed New York
City watershed regulations in the 1990s, actually split the regional
entity in recent weeks with the defection of the Ulster County
town of Hardenburgh for being not only over-tithed in membership
dues, but underrepresented by Coalition actions of the past year.
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Selling The Sewer Now
County Sends Dean Palen In To Tout The Benefits Of City DEP’s
Wastewater Offer
3/30/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
It seems to be agreed that the sewer system planned for Phoenicia
will cost more than the $11 million allocated for the project
by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, but
it now appears that the Shandaken town board will play a crucial
role in whether or not the City kicks in more money.
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Red
elder bud in the forest--one of the first
buds to unfurl on Romer Mountain. Don’t forget
to set your clocks open before dawn breaks on April
2... time for us all to spring forward!
Onteora’s strong-willed
but humanistically-open Superintendent of Schools
Justine Winters, who came on board a year
and a half ago at a time when the district was closing
a school and facing upheaval because of its board’s
implimentation of Large Parcel tax re-assessment,
announced in late February that she will be retiring
her position due to illness as of June 2. Winters
has strarted undergoing chemotherapy treatments
for the return of colon cancer in recent months.
She was hired with a three-year contract in July,
2004. The school board has said that it is working
with Ulster BOCES to find both an interim superintendent
by summer and to start a longer, six-month-or-so
search for a full-time replacement for Winters,
who everyone has pegged as a hands-on healing force
for the district. She replaced Dr. Hal Rowe, who
started in 1994.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication
of 12 Resort-Related Issues
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