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Legislature Weighing In
County Calls For Full Adjudication Of All Belleayre Resort Issues
Questions
By Brian Powers
Citing the "diversity of expert opinion" raised at the
recently-ended Belleayre Resort issues conference, the Ulster
County Legislature overwhelmingly passed a resolution last Thursday
supporting "the full adjudication of all issues " now
before Department of Environmental Conservation Administrative
Law Judge Richard Wissler. The move, which essentially mirrors
the position taken throughout the conference by the eleven member
groups of the Catskill Preservation Coalition, passed by a vote
of 27-3. Support for the resolution was unanimous from Route 28
corridor legislators Brian Shapiro and Michael Stock from District
2 and Richard Parete, Peter Kraft, and Robert Parete from District
3.
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For Art's Sake
Limner Gallery's Steady Mission...
By Paul Smart
Tim Slowinski deals in ironies. The art he shows, as exemplified
in his Phoenicia-based Limner Gallery's new "Fantastic
Visions" exhibit, up through the month, is all about surreal
surfaces and subtle commentary about the odd times we inhabit.
And yet -- in his life's work as both a prolific artist, and
an energetically involved and supportive gallery owner of a
quarter century, first in New York City and now in the Catskills
- Slowinski's core is anything but ironic. It's based on an
authentic belief in the redemptive qualities of fine art, and
a sincere drive to ensure that alternative viewpoints get seen
and heard, as befits our Harry Potter and Tolkien myths, as
well as the move of so many die-hard city dwellers to a new
life based on age-old ideas of rustic utopias.
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City Regs Draw Fire
CWC Sets Fighting Tone With New York Over Hunting & Other
Rec Matters
By Paul Smart
15 burly men sat amongst over 150 chairs in the Overlook Lodge
at Belleayre Ski Center Tuesday, September 14, for a public
hearing on proposed changes to the rules and regulations for
the recreational use of New York City's Water Supply Lands
and Waters. They listened to and watched a Power Point demonstration
by city officials and then made stilted, manly comments into
the record about how some of the proposals make a travesty
of the hunting, fishing and trapping heritage of the region.
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Cross Breaks Ranks
Supervisor With Dems On Appointment As Resort Review Issues
Rise Again
By Phoenicia Times Staff
"I don't believe it," muttered one Republican.
Though said in a whisper it was easy to hear over the icy
silence in the room just after Republican Supervisor Robert
Cross Jr. cast the tie-breaking vote to place Democrat Rolf
Reiss on the town cell tower committee. Reiss foes Jane
Todd and Joe Munster, the other members of the GOP triumvirate,
stared straight ahead, poker faced, trying not to let on
that they were as surprised as they apparently were.
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