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PROM
TIME...
It’s that season and local high schoolers are getting
ready for their dates at Hillside Manor next weekend...
Keep
It With Changes
Consensus Backs EPA Granting FAD For DEP As Coalition
Comes In At 11th Hour
6/8/2006
By Olive Press Staff
Watershed dwellers packed themselves into the Longhouse Lodge
at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Tuesday evening to give EPA officials
an earful about how they think things are going with the partnership
between this region and the City of New York.
The agency is holding a series of public hearings to gather information
on how things are going in the vast watershed region before deciding
whether to allow the City of New York to continue avoiding a Federal
mandate to filter its water supply. Such a filtration system is
estimated to cost $8 billion to build and hundreds of millions
a year to run.
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Onteora’s
Big Blunder
Board Dismisses Interm Super, Hires Pine Hill’s Jordan After
Special Ed Revelations
6/8/2006By
Lisa Childers
The Onteora Central School District board of education accepted
the resignation of interim superintendent Dr. Peter J. Ferrara
at a special meeting Tuesday May 30, after the temporary replacement
for the recently deceased Justine Winters had served less than
a month. The resignation was effective as of May 31. The board
then approved Shandaken resident John Jordan, a previous interviewee
for the interim post, as Ferrara’s replacement, effective
June 1, at the same rate of pay, $565 per day.
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Law Judge Richard R. Wissler Calls for Adjudication of 12
Resort-Related Issues
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Water Water
Everywhere
Cross Survives Mutiny as Board Grapples
With Townwide Water & Sewer Questions
6/8/2006By
Brian Powers
Water issues, incoming and outgoing, and from either
end of town, dominated the June 5 town board meeting,
with the community’s longstanding bugaboo
with Dean Gitter’s resort proposal wafting
in the background like a ghost.
On the one hand, bids were finally approved for
work on the once-private (and Gitter-owned) Pine
Hill water system while a Pine Hill sewer extension
long thought dead was unanimously approved by the
Town Board, albeit without a public hearing as state
and town law require.
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Helping
Out Volunteers
A
Catskills Effort Gets Underway,
Seeking To Create A Nationwide Effect
6/8/2006By
Violet Snow
People who volunteer their time for schools, non-profit
organizations, church groups, fire departments, and
other essential community services may get tax refunds
of up to $2000 a year, if Shandaken residents Calandra
Cruickshank and Andrew Martin succeed in rallying
support for a bill now in the Ways and Means Committee
in Washington. The pair have created an organization,
Support American Volunteer Efforts (SAVE), headquartered
in the 1890 House on Main Street, Phoenicia, to coordinate
support for bill HR4387, which was co-written by Martin
and Washington lawyer Dave Coffman, former tax advisor
to the Senate, and introduced by Congressman Maurice
Hinchey.
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