Phoenicia
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 10, 2012 - 11:33 am
Above: A Google map of New York State post offices that will have reduced hours under the new plan. Click on a red dot to get information about a post office's current hours and their planned reduced daily hours. Use the controls on the left to zoom in... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 4:27 pm
Thanks to the “Shelter from the Storm” benefit concerts at the UPAC and Levon Helm Studios this past Winter, The SHARP Committee, located in Phoenicia, New York, is still distributing Grants to Shandaken residents for home rehabilitation and other needs... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Dear Editor,
What is wrong with Onteora?
The Onteora budget is unnecessarily wasteful and caused by many bad decisions made by the current Board of Education. Although the budget is reduced 1.7%, enrollment is down 2.3 %. In other words, Onteora’s per... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 3:35 pm
Dear Editor,
I write this to the voters to remind you to vote on May 15th, from 2-9 at your local elementary school. I especially hope that you are planning to vote for me and Cybele Nielsen, but regardless, please take the time to cast your ballot... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 3:12 pm
Dear Editor: I am glad that other members of the community have stepped up for the positions of Onteora School Board trustee currently held by myself and Laurie Osmond; after three years of uncontested elections, it was easy to presume that nobody wanted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 2:58 pm
Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter in support of Rebecca Balzac, a candidate for the Onteora Board of Education. I have known Rebecca since 2005, when we moved our family up to this area full time. Rebecca and I first met at the Olive library where... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 2:51 pm
Dear Editor,
The current Onteora school board has acted irresponsibly with our students’ education and with taxpayer dollars, throwing money at a short-term fix that reconfigures the K-6 schools based on an unproven model that they “hope” will improve... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:56 pm
A state-owned property at 67 Wurts Street in Kingston that Ulster County executive Mike Hein wants to convert to county-owned veterans' housing. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
At a lofty price of $1, it won't be the biggest... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 - 12:37 am
Shandaken's latest bout of dithering over a proposed Phoenicia sewer plant may have cost the town $15.8 million in New York City grant money. After years of negotiation with a reluctant town board over the Phoenicia sewer project, the Catskill Watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 8, 2012 - 9:43 am
In this week's Woodstock Times: The Phoenicia Library, whose building was gutted by fire last March, has run up against a roadblock in its plans to rebuild and return to 48 Main Street:
Neighbors on both sides of the Main Street library building have... Read more
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