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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.
Yet Another Round...
Cross, Di Modica, Back At Odds Over
Pine Hill & Phoenicia Water Questions
Yet Another Round...
Cross, Di Modica, Back At Odds Over
Pine Hill & Phoenicia Water Questions
By Brian Powers
Two years ago, former supervisor Pete Di Modica signed an agreement
for the town’s purchase of the Pine Hill Water Company,
capping a 6-month negotiation with the system’s owner at
the time, developer Dean Gitter. Along with the water company,
the town acquired a $1.6 million interlocking grant and loan package
for improvements to it. Now, Supervisor Bob Cross Jr. is faulting
Di Modica for the handling of those funds, and Di Modica’s
responding that Cross doesn’t know what he’s talking
about.
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Setting
Higher Challenges
Watershed Museum Morphs Into New ‘Catskill Water Discovery
Center'
By Paul Smart
A new announcement set to coincide with March 22’s quiet
celebration as World Water Day, part of the recently announced
World Water Decade (2005-2015), was disseminated last week with
the introductory comment: “The Catskill Watershed Museum
is no more. Did you even know it existed? Well, it didn’t
so don’t feel out of the loop. The Watershed Museum never
opened and it never will.”
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Not
Likely To Refuse
Phoenicia Businesses Told To Get Ready To Pay For Sewer Services...
Or Else
By
Phoenicia Times Staff
If you own a business in Phoenicia and use lots of water, be prepared
to pay lots of money. And if you are thinking of staying out of
the system think again, because there is a high risk of going
out of business. Consider yourself warned.
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Captured!
Route 28 Boys Catch A Rabbit
By Paul
Smart
It
was a woodshed not unlike many that lurk behind our us to the
spot by more than initials, F and R, and their general age: late
pre-teen.
“Man, we never thought we’d actually pull this off,”
F said, looking furtively to the left and right as he led me back
to the shed. As we approached, a great rattling emerged from its
bark-covered interior.
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