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HOW
HIGH CAN WE GO? Some scoffed when we
ran a piece predicting gas prices sticking over $3 last summer.
But here comes the big jumps... Read News Briefs inside...
Pushing
To Referendum
Phoenicia Sewer Battle Intensifies In Wake Of Committee’s
Recent Break-Up
4/27/2006
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Claiming that a town sanctioned wastewater committee was abolished
to squelch their voices, opponents of a sewer project slated for
Phoenicia have set up their own unofficial gatherings at local
restaurants in hopes of convincing the community to turn down
the plan.
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Ready
For A May 16 Vote
Onteora Board Drops Budget As Board Race Gains A New Olive Protest
Write-In
4/27/2006
By Lisa Childers
Voters will be asked to approve a $44,644.222 or 3.8 percent school
budget increase for the 2006-2007 year when they go to the polls
May 16, along with approval for a capital reserve fund, the replacement
of two in-house school busses and the extension of an additional
two years on a three-year bus contract.
At the same time, they will be given two choices for two open
seats on the school board – incumbent Herb Rosenfeld and
Phoenicia parent Maxanne Resnick.
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Who’ll
Be In The New Jail?
State Audit On GOP’s Mishaps Leaked As Calls For Criminal
Investigations Grow
4/27/2006
By Olive Press Staff
A long-awaited preliminary audit from the state Comptroller’s
Office loking into the county’s jail debacle has faulted
the former Republican county legislature majority’s poor
oversight for nearly $13 million in “unnecessary costs,”
as well as several years of delay, while also uncovering enough
questionable expenses – including a payment of $39.59 for
cigars, and growing reports that there were under-the-counter
expenditures to some legislators, to lead the county’s current
Democratic majority leader to call for a criminal investigation
into what happened with the state Attorney General’s Office,
the FBI or the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication of 12
Resort-Related Issues
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Coalition
United... For Now
Watershed Entity Reigns In An Ulster Revolt While
Rift-lines Keep Deepening
4/27/2006
By Paul Smart
At a late March meeting in Hurley Supervisor Mike
Shultis’s offices, called by Shandaken supervisor
(and one of two Coalition of Watershed Towns representatives
from Ulster County) Bob Cross Jr., eight of nine
Ulster County towns located in part within the boundaries
of the vast New York City watershed decided to stick
with membership in the Coalition, despite voicing
significant concerns over the way the entity’s
been run, and treated them and other member municipalities,
in recent years.
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Protesting,
Eeo-Style
Stubblefield’s
A True Original
4/27/2006By
Violet Snow
Phoenicia residents and summer tourists were surprised,
on a sunny afternoon in August of 2000, to see fifteen
or so women shrouded in black and a similar number
of women dressed totally in red and with skin painted
red, carrying chairs down Main Street. Reactions varied.
People were annoyed, amused, confused, excited–but
everyone noticed, and advance press had brought extra
visitors to pack the streets and marvel at the goings-on.
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