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Joshua Holz of Woodland Valley
holds his two lambs, Frida and Esther, named after their birthdate,
the Friday before Easter. Josh, a member of the local 4-H club,
is raising the babies with the guidance of his mother, Jennifer.
Things Pass Quickly
Onteora Okays Rowe's Budget & Moves Ahead On Our Large Parcel
Disaster
By Violet Snow
We're not losing a school, we're gaining educational quality.
Such was the message Onteora trustees sought to deliver as they
voted unanimously to redistribute all the district's elementary
students among the Woodstock, Bennett, and Phoenicia schools
in the fall and instructed superintendent Hal Rowe to seek another
use for the West Hurley school. At Monday night's meeting, they
also unanimously adopted Rowe's $42,720,937 budget proposal,
which incorporates a six percent increase over the current year's
budget, with a projected ˜but very uncertain˜ average
tax increase of 9 percent.
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Board
Races?
Three candidates turned in valid petitions by the April 19 deadline,
declaring their candidacy for the two Onteora Board of Education
seats up for election in May. Tom Rosato and Meg Carey will
attempt to keep their positions against a challenge from West
Hurley resident David Patterson, a father of seven who has been
outspoken at recent meetings, accusing the board and administration
of poorly managing the district. At the May 18 election, voters
will also decide whether to approve the proposed 2004-2005 budget
of $42.7 million.
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Planners Step Up
Board Votes To Seek Party Status As
Town's Consultant Slams Crossroads
By Brian Powers
In the wake of a highly critical report from the town's consultants
on the proposed Belleayre Resort's Draft Environmental Impact
Statement, Shandaken's planning board has voted unanimously
to seek full party status to participate in the upcoming issues
conference and hearings for the project. The surprise
decision came at the end of an often procedurally confused
joint meeting of the town board and planning board Monday
night, where Vince Ferrandino of Ferrandino and Associates
outlined the major concerns his group had identified with
socio-economic and fiscal issues in the 3,500 page document.
Five days earlier, the group had presented to town planners
a similar report on traffic issues connected with the project.
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A Record-Breaking
Trout
Bill Vitarius Jr. Pulls In A 10 Pound Brownie On A Shiny Lure
From Mornes'
By Paul Smart
Word started spreading fisherman to fisherman, without benefit
of the written word or even photos. The fish was huge; a brown
trout. 29 inches long and over 9 pounds in weight. Thing was
caught in the Esopus by a local guy, German in heritage. He
took it to Mornes in Phoenicia, once the site of the legendary
Folkerts, where all the local flytying greats used to sell
their wares way back when trout fishing in America meant trout
fishing along the Route 28 corridor.
The excitement was spreading based not just on size, a commodity
men don't mind stumbling away from discussion of. It had to
do with the possibility that the appearance of such a fish
in the creek at this time of year, when the Rainbows were
traditionally up from the Ashokan Reservoir to spawn, represented
something new, maybe even epochal. After all, the fact that
it was the salmonoid roots of trout that caused them to swim
upstream and make for such grand fighting fish was what excited
real fishermen. Something the size of this Brownie, caught
this far upstream, could mean something was, er, afish.
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Party Heart
Shandaken's Win Becomes A New Goal For Olive...
By Paul Smart
Cindy Johansen's single-handedly pushing to rebuild partisanship
in her part of the Catskills. The former Olive councilwoman
who almost single-handedly built up a town Conservative Party
in the early 1970s, after moving to West Shokan from her native
Kingston in 1964, is now working with a small group of dedicated
Olivites to build a new Republican Club and bring their town
back from its current state of having only Democrats in power.
For inspiration and guidance, Johansen and her fledgling club
have turned to Gerry Setchko and the Shandaken Republican
Club, who turned around their own town in last November's
elections after it had started to shift Democrat in the 2001
election, reflecting growing demographic changes effecting
the entire region. And quietly, she notes paying close attention
to her town's resident political natural, Town and County
Democratic Party Chairman John Parete of the Boiceville Inn.
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