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Woodstock Memorial Day parade

May 28, 2012 - 12:00pm

This Memorial Day, bike the Catskills

By Andrea Girolamo
5/18/12 - 6:26 pm

Above: Cycling on some Catskills roads. Photo via the Catskill Mountain Cycling Club Facebook page.

Cyclists who ride the Catskills know this is a perfect place to get on the bike for a quick 20-miler. And what better time to do it than this Memorial Day weekend, when two of our local cycling clubs are offering planned rides for cycling enthusiasts?

'Tour de Pepacton'

Billy Allison, of the Catskill Mountain Cycling Club, is the organizing brains behind this year’s Tour de Pepacton, a ride to benefit Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care, on Sunday, May 27. Read more

Onteora school election results show a deeply divided district

By Lissa Harris
5/16/12 - 12:53 pm

	Tony Fletcher	Cybele Nielsen	Rebecca Balzac	Laurie Osmond
Shandaken/Lexington	346	56	55	332
Olive/Marbletown	131	399	410	134
Woodstock	281	146	102	273
Hurley	149	223	195	133

Table of results in the May 15 Onteora school board election, broken down by town. Top vote-getters in each town highlighted in yellow. Data from the Onteora Central School District's website.

If you're a parent in the massive Onteora school district, there's a good chance that how you feel about today's election results reflects where you live. Read more

After parent outcry, Onteora backs off plan to take music out of the school day

By Lynn Sloneker
5/15/12 - 4:36 pm

As voters head to the polls for school elections today, parents in the Onteora Central School District are still upset over the district's abrupt about-face on a plan to move the elementary music program from the school day to the early morning hours before school begins.

After months of sustained protests, and with an already controversial school board election looming, district administrators recently decided to back away from the plan. Many parents say the changes would have significantly undermined the school's music program.

The proposal to move music to the early mornings was based on a concern over the loss of instructional time during the school day, superintendent Phyllis McGill said. She said parents expressed a desire for both meaningful instruction with challenging content, and music. The plan was “certainly a hot issue for the parents in the shared decision-making meeting, but they understood what we were trying to do and how hard it is to do,” McGill said. Read more

School elections today

By Lissa Harris
5/15/12 - 9:57 am

A reminder: New Yorkers go to the polls today to vote for school budgets and board members. To find your local polling place, check your school district's website.

Problems at the polls? Let us know at editor@watershedpost.com.

Letter to the Editor: Onteora - Not the time for change

By WP Newsroom
5/11/12 - 1:36 pm

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Thousands of rural post offices to reduce hours under new USPS plan

By Lissa Harris
5/10/12 - 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 or out, or click and drag the map with your mouse. For a larger view, click here. Data from the United States Postal Service. Read more

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