Candidates
Line Up
Republican Caucus Yields Full Slate As Dems Whittle Down Their Own
Choices
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The Commissioner Talks
DEP's Christopher Ward spoke recently with
PT's Editor Brian Powers...
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City Review Changes
DEP To Pay $100 Grand For Crossroads Review; DiModica Tables
Town Law Talk
Shandaken will have money to begin its review
of the Belleayre Resort, having become the beneficiary of a deal
between the New York City department of Environmental Protection,
State Senators John Bonicic and JamesSeward, and a growing number
of supporters of the need for local, home-rule reviews of the
proposal now in draft environmental impact statement form.
Shandaken supervisor Pete DiModica announced last week that he
will be tabling a proposed town law designed to pull review funds
from the project.
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BUG TIME... It's ants, big
ones, crawling over the bed and into our mouths. Mosquitos seeking
blood. Ticks and cluster flies. Did anyone say summer's finally
here?
What's
Up With Taxes?
Onteora Mulls New Rate That Could Spell Lower Taxes In Shandaken,
Higher In Olive
By
Paul Smart
The state's adoption of an alternative tax apportionment mechanism
for school districts with designated large properties last September
is presently causing considerable consternation throughout the
municipalities that make up the Onteora School District, with
Olive residents now worrying about reports that their school
taxes could go up by over 60 percent in the coming years because
of the town's longstanding reliance on taxes paid by the New
York City-owned Ashokan Reservoir, which currently makes up
over half the town's value.
"It's an alternative tax apportionment program that's totally
voluntary," said Joe Hesch, spokesperson for the state
Office of Real Property Services, which oversees the tax code.
He noted that the suggested change was first brought to his
department six years ago by members of the state Asasociation
of Towns, as well as the legislative committee of the state
Assessors Association.
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Pine Hill Masala...
Moni Khan Brings A World With Her
By Rachel X. Weissman
"You like it? I give you a little bit more? Sure!"
says Moni Khan when she sees how quickly I've cleaned up the
plate of curry squash, shrimp, white rice and spinach sautéed
in garlic, onion and green chili that she gave me a few minutes
before.
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