| Candidates Debate Set
Shandaken
Women’s Network Brings In League
Moderators For Oct. 19 Event
By Paul Smart
The Hudson Valley League of Women Voters
will be coming to town this month to host and moderate a Meet
The Candidates debate at Shandaken Town Hall on Sunday, October
19 starting at 3 PM. According to League scheduler
Karen Goertzel of West Hurley, the event will be run as all League
of Women Voters events are run: with each candidate making 10
minute opening statements, followed by a chance for each candidate
to rebut. The public will then be invited to submit questions
to the League moderator who will be timing and overseeing the
event. She will decide what questions are asked, and time answers
from each candidate.
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Sparring With The City
Olive
Officials Question DEP’s Terrorist Claims In Closing Monument Road
By
Tree McElhinney
In an open letter to town of Olive
residents, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Christopher O. Ward, has accused unidentified “local officials”
of releasing details from a U.S Army Corp of Engineers report
assessing the vulnerability of the Ashokan Reservoir to a potential
terrorist attack.
The letter was published in a paid
advertisement that appeared in the Daily Freeman on Sunday
and appears in this week’s issue of the Olive Press.
“Local officials have been fully briefed
on the findings of the study, as they pertain to the Town of Olive,
in private meetings with the DEP,” Ward wrote. “Despite requests
to keep details of the study confidential, so as not to help those
seeking to do us harm, this vital information has been discussed
in public.”
Stating that “the threat from terrorists
to the Olivebridge Dam is very real,” the letter also defends
the DEP’s decision toclose Monument
Road in March. “While we have been reluctant to highlight this
information,” Ward wrote, “the security agencies that have been
charged after 9/11 with protecting our country’s infrastructure
have proof that Al Qaeda and other terrorists have studied utilities,
including the New York City water system, for vulnerabilities.”
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REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11th... Supervisor Pete Di Modica was one of
the speakers at the Memorial Service held at the Shandaken Eagle
in Phoenicia this year. The event drew a thoughtful, sincere crowd,
as it will all years...
Park Plan Draws Fire
Mountain Bikers Oppose New Regs, Joining With Coalition’s
Complaints
By Brian Powers
Arguing that new restrictions prohibiting
bicycles from wilderness trails could hurt our region economically,
the politically powerful Coalition of Watershed Towns has weighed
in against DEC’s draft revisions to its newly released Catskill
Park Master Plan. Two weeks ago Greene County’s legislature took
a similar position, and together the moves bode trouble for what
the agency may have anticipated would be quick approval for the
first proposed revisions to the Catskill Park’s Master Plan since
it was first adopted in 1985.
Speaking for the Coalition of Watershed
Towns at last Saturday’s public hearing on the plan at Belleayre
Mountain Ski Center was Dr. Richard Craft, Supervisor of the Town
of Wawarsing and the group’s newly designated vice-chairman. Craft
read into the record a resolution approved by the Coalition last
week to a largely appreciative audience of about 100 people, including
many recreational mountain bikers. According to the Coalition,
DEC’s new plan will “restrict current recreational uses of state
land”, “adversely impact” tourism and the second-home market,
and “contradicts the letter and spirit of the (1997) MOA” between
the Cityand the watershed towns, to which DEC is a signatory.
The resolution also demanded that DEC extend its period for written
comment on the document beyond its October 15 deadline; Apparently
the agency’s already complied, with the deadline now extended
until Nov. 14.
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Mrs. Clerk
Laurilyn
Frasier, In Her Words...
By
Dakota Lane If you live in Shandaken, the only
inevitability in life besides death and taxes is that Laurilyn
J. West Frasier will be collecting your tax money and handing
out the death certificate. Serving as elected town clerk
for the past 15 years, she deals with a microcosm, having
a literal window on the world, her desk pushed right up
to the receiving window.
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