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TREE TIME... We've been getting
more and more calls and letters in asking what can be done about
the region's growing problem with over-friendly, hungry bears
wandering into our towns and homes. To date, the best advice has
been to stop leaving anything edible out for them. But maybe it's
time for the state to come up with some better answers before
the problem becomes even more severe?
NEWSBRIEFS
Last Minute Changes...
Large Parcel Vote By Onteora Board Now Switched To Aug. 19 For Quorum's
Sake
By Gary Alexander
With only four of the seven members of the Onteora School Board
potentially available for the final vote on the Large Parcel Law
on Tuesday night, a decision was reached at a meeting with Real
Property Tax Service Agency Director, Dorothy Martin, to postpone
the school board vote until Thursday.
"We polled the board and knew for sure that, on Thursday,
we would have 5, and possibly 6 (board members)," explained
Superintendent of the Onteora
School District, Justine Winters, who elaborated that vacations
and medical necessities prevented full attendance. "So we're
going to postpone in hopes
as having as many attend as possible."
With the legal deadline for the vote set at Sunday, August 22nd,
ten days prior to the levy, there were only a few days grace within
which to reschedule.
Activities will commence at 6 pm, Thursday, with a meeting in
executive session to proceed the public meeting at 7pm.
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Sadly Our Joe Passes
The Catskills Community Mourns The Tragic Death Of Boiceville
Lumber Owner
By Martha Frankel
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it
certainly took a whole town to bury Joe DeBellis Jr last Tuesday.
The shock that stretched through Boiceville when word came that
an accident had killed the young (49) owner of Boiceville Lumber
--- a town already reeling from the fire that killed Frank Calrow
on July 8th and the car accident that took the life of the beloved
Mirella Bresciani on June 26th--- threatened to bring Olive
to a complete standstill. At the supermarket and the gas station,
people turned to each other and held on, wailing. At the
mill the next day, loggers and lumber guys mixed with Joe‚s
brothers, friends and his longtime companion (who he jokingly
referred to as his arch enemy), Valerie Fanarjian. They told
stories about excavation jobs that everyone else deemed impossible;
the tagline of each story was how Joe had come and done the
job without a problem. They talked about impossible loads that
Joe had carted to New Jersey, or trucks he had rigged together
until they could be fixed properly. They talked of how
little Joe said, of the blush that would spread up from his
neck like wine on a tablecloth, of how gentle he could be with
someone‚s aging mother. They laughed and they wept.
Mostly they wept.
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Ripping Up Pine Hill
Water System Renovations Set For Fall As Cross Politicizes
Its Billing Letters
By Phoenicia Times Staff
Many of the major roadways in Pine Hill, including the former
village's Main Street, will be ripped up this fall by contractors
hired by the town to rehabilitate the dilapidated water mains
that lace the hamlet.
Dennis Larios, of the engineering firm Brinnier and Larios,
said this week that the bid package has gone out and the project
should be awarded on August 27 at a special 11 AM town board
meeting. The project, expected to begin in September, is slated
to take three months and marks the first major improvement
to the water system since the town of Shandaken purchased
it last year.
The town of Shandaken, which oversees
operation of the newly formed Pine Hill Water District, has
over $1.3 million in grants and loans to work with. Larios
said this phase of work will take care of about half of the
district's distribution system identified as being most in
need of improvement. New mains will be installed, as well
as the individual, three quarter inch lines that stem from
the mains located in the middle of roadways to private property
lines.
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Hilary
Gold!
Librarian Leaves After 16 Years...
By Violet Snow
A librarian in a small, rural library is like a bartender
for people who don't drink. People come to the Phoenicia
Library for books, but they also come to relax between errands,
catch up on gossip, update gossip, and touch the heartbeat
of the community. Hilary Gold, who retires this month after
sixteen years as the library's director, and will be feted
with a special Open House at the library on Saturday, August
21 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, found many differences between
her job in Phoenicia and her previous post as a reference
librarian in New York City.
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ISSUES CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Firehouse,
Margaretville, top floor 9AM -5 PM
August 24th - Community character, cumulative
impacts
August 25th - Aquatic habitat
August 26th - Storm water
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