Boiceville News

"I tried being stupid, but it didn't work." - Joel Oppenheimer Did you see the cloud shaped like a thimble over Boiceville last Tuesday? A Letter Dear Articulate Observer: In November, the sun gets brighter because the leaves no longer block it.

The Onteora Central School District Board of Education ratified a new four-year contract with the Onteora Teachers Association that will be retroactively effective July 1, 2008, when the union's last contract expired.

KINGSTON Ulster County will receive an additional $8.3 million in federal stimulus money, which will be used to repave over 23 miles of Route 28 roadway and shoulders from Route 375 in West Hurley to Route 28A in Boiceville, and from Route 215 in Phoencia to the Delaware County Line.

A Boiceville man died Tuesday evening in a two-car collision on Route 28 in the Town of Olive, state police said.

After a contract dispute lasting more than a year, Onteora School District teachers will decide this week if they will strike, district officials say.

It's home-grown, and now it has grown-up. The 10th anniversary of the Woodstock Film Festival Awards gala celebrated, appropriately enough, the career of director Richard Linklater, whose early films like "Dazed and Confused" and "Before Sunrise" capture the angst of youth and whose most recent movie, "Me and Orson Welles," is receiving critical ...

The Onteora teachers and non-teachers contract dispute continues. Hundreds of picketers including retired teachers and teachers from schools throughout the area joined the ranks and marched with Onteora teachers in front of the Middle/High School, all leading up to the Tuesday October 6 school board meeting at the Boiceville site that was set to ...

On the Record features birth announcements on Page 2B on Mondays and announcements about local residents in college and the armed services on Page 3B throughout the week.

NEW PALTZ - Imagine being transported into a photograph of a hotel room, tropical beach or the scenic grounds of a bed-and-breakfast. You can see to the right, left, up or down - and with a pair of binoculars you can spy distant details.

During a lengthy Onteora school board reorganization meeting on Tuesday evening, trustee Laurie Osmond was chosen as Onteora district school board president, and Ann McGillicuddy as vice president.

Officials in a town in New York's Catskill Mountains are frowning on the party favors given to students at a recent high school prom -- shot glasses.