As soon as it starts to rain, anxiety descends upon many of us here in Shandaken. Is another flood on its way? Two devastating floods in six years. In the past year alone, three storms that sent water sloshing into stores on Phoenicia’s Main Street. Is industry to blame, for provoking climate change? Are state and New York City regulators to blame for letting streams grow shallow and wide? Many local residents say the streams were dredged every year or two in the past, as a means of preventin...
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Former Woodstock supervisor Jeremy Wilber’s bid to reclaim his old office gained propulsion with a landslide victory in the September 13 Democratic primary, in which voters also chose Town Board candidates Jay Wenk and Ken Panza to carry the party’s banner in the upcoming general election. Unofficial results from the county Board of Elections showed Wilber trouncing councilwoman Terrie Rosenblum by a tally of 407 to 90 in the supervisor contest. In a four-way race for two Town Board seats, in...
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It used to be that art films were seen in cinema society settings, where their aesthetic merits were discussed in intellectual terms. The idea of an entirely separate subset of the moving pictures world started in early, by the 1920s, most believe. Only later did art house theaters pop up (eventually confused with early pornographic movies), as well as the magic of specialty VHS and DVD rentals. By which time the works were seen in terms of their solipsistic references to other films, or othe...
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by Paul Smart The Irene stories coming from our local business community are many, and varied. And despite everyone losing business, in various levels, there’s a general sense of strong lessons learned, now, and of greater preparedness for future weather events that all seem convinced will just become more regular at this point. Peter Cantine, at The Bear Café, noted how he and partner Eric Mann went out and rented a generator for their Bearsville compound before the rains came, “pro-activel...
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