PLAY
BALL... Local Little League’s already underway, as these
images show from Dion Ogust. Starting Saturday morning, May
10, Babe Ruth League also starts up over in refurbished Davis
Park in West Shokan. Woodstock,Olive,and Shandaken all have
various teams... Guess it’s almost summer!
5-8
At The High School
Onteora Redistricting To Close Phoenicia, Move
Towards District Consolidation
5/8/2008
By Lisa Childers
The Onteora district school board has collectively agreed to
increase the Middle School by adding grades five and six at
the central campus in Boiceville. New construction will be required
to the Middle School and the school board supported closing
an elementary school due to low enrollment. The decision was
for formalized at a May 6 meeting/
Although a formal vote on which school will be closed will not
occur until the very end of the current board’s term,
on June 30, several board members have said at recent meetings
that it would be Phoenicia.
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The
Onteora Candidates
Four Challenge Three Incumbents For Open Seats, With One Stepping
Back
5/8/2008
By Paul Smart
The Onteora
school district board of education has eight candidates vying
for four seats in this years May 20 election, although one -
18 year old High School senior, as much as stepped back from
his candidacy in supprot of a slate of four challenging the
race’s three incumbents at a Meet The Candidates event
in Boiceville the evening of May 5.
. The three incumbents, Mary Jane Bernholz, Cindy O’Connor
and Rita Vanacore are running as a block in support of a district
reconfiguration including a five-through-eight middle school.
Donna Flayhan, Ralph Legnini, Laurie Osmond and Ann McGillicuddy
are running as a slate against the district reconfiguration,
noting that it would force a school to close, among other effects.
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A
Jar Of Olives...
Life’s A Gift... Unwrap It!
5/8/2008
By
Carol La Monda
The Town of Olive volunteers held two Saturday sales at
the old Trail Nursery to sell the stock left there. The
wastewater treatment plant for the Boiceville area will
be built on the property behind this building. The Town
of Olive will then sell the nursery building and acreage
and the revenue will be returned to the CWC, Catskill
Watershed Corporation. I am hoping that another nursery
will go in there. So many people said they missed Jack
and Phil and having such a great nursery available in
town. It also would make a super-cool restaurant that
could grow its own flowers and vegetables. I can picture
quaint little tables under the greenhouse ceiling.
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Our
Last Farmers
History Lives...
5/8//2008
By Charlie Blumstein
John Ingram of Glad Kipt
Kill farm in Olivebridge,
the last remaining diversified
working farm in Olive is
the quintessential countryman
of yore having a very wide
range of farming knowledge
and skills such as animal
husbandry, draft horse training
and use, tractor operator
and farm mechanic, pasture
and woodlot management,
sawyer and sawmill mechanic...
among others. Add in his
membership in the Olive
Fire Co. 1 and part time
position as Town of Olive
zoning enforcement officer
and assistant building inspector
and you have one very busy
farmer who also requires
off-farm income to help
make ends meet.
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Saving
Habeas Corpus...
Part 2 of
a Dialogue With The Catskills’
Civil Rights Crusader, Michael
Ratner
5/8/2008
By Gary Alexander
A favored method of forcing
confessions during the
Spanish Inquisition was
a form of suffocating
water torture called “toca”-
which is similar to the
controversial practice
of “waterboarding”
used on detainees at Guantanamo
Bay and at secret CIA
“rendition”
camps in other countries.
The process, applied to
American POWs during World
War II by their Japanese
captors, was called “the
water cure” and
was regarded as a war
crime at the International
Tribunal in Toyko following
the war..
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What’s
Up With The City?
Questions
Abound About The State’s
New Role In Upstate/Downstate
Relations
5/8/2008
By Paul Smart
One of the bigger local
questions of recent weeks,
at least in Catskills
communities, is why New
York City decided to not
only settle its long string
of tax assessment lawsuits
with the Town of Olive,
but do so for the next
decade.
“There’s been
a definite clearing of
the atmosphere, so to
speak,” said Olive
Town Supervisor of the
shift that’s brought
his town its first reprieve
from ongoing battles with
the Big Apple in decades.
“Something’s
afoot, just what it is,
I’m not sure.”
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