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SIGN
OF THE TIMES TO COME? John Ruoff of
Lanesville took Birdy and Shorty out for a spin on a back road
near Phoenicia with his family riding in style on a sledge.
Wissler
Rules
DEC Judge’s Decision A Major Setback For Proposed Belleaye
Resort Project By
Brian Powers
A long awaited ruling from the judge overseeing the state’s
review of the proposed Belleayre Resort is now in, with implications
that appear to cast serious doubt over the project’s future.
The 167-page determination, released September 7 by Department
of Environmental Conservation Administrative Law Judge Richard
R. Wissler, calls for full legal adjudication of an unprecedented
twelve issues covering nearly every major aspect of the project’s
potential impact on the community and the environment.
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Effluent
Community
Town Tells Phoenicia It Needs Their Waste, Passes Sewer Ordinance
Along The Way
By
Phoeniicia Times Staff
There are still lots of unanswered questions about the plan, but
no matter how you look at it, Shandaken is moving ahead with plans
to build an $11 million sewer system to service the Phoenicia
hamlet.
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Off
To A Great Start!
Our School Opens 2nd Kindergarten Class To Keep Up With Shandaken’s
Growth
By
Paul Smart
Phoenicia Elementary School principal Linda Sella says that given
how well things went for the first week of the new year and semester,
“things are looking very exciting for Phoenicia!”
She noted, in particular, that a slight rise in attendance for
the current year has meant that her school will be hosting two
full-day kindergarten classes for the first time ever.
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End
Of Our Motoring Era
An Expert Friend Talks Big Picture
An
Expert Friend Talks Big Picture
By Paul Smart
“My last three books were concerned with the physical
arrangement of life in our nation, in particular suburban sprawl,
the most destructive development pattern the world has ever
seen, and perhaps the greatest misallocation of resources the
world has ever known,” noted Hudson Valley author James
Howard Kunstler last January during a speech in Hudson, New
York, introducing the ideas behind his influential new book,
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of
the Twenty-first Century. “The world - and of course the
US - now faces an epochal predicament: the global oil production
peak and the arc of depletion that follows. We are unprepared
for this crisis of industrial civilization. We are sleepwalking
into the future. The global peak oil production event will change
everything about how we live. It will challenge all of our assumptions.
It will compel us to do things differently - whether we like
it or not.”
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