Onteora Central School District voters re-elected incumbents Tony Fletcher and Laurie Osmond and easily approved the 2012/2013 Budget of $49,686,922 at Tuesday May 15, annual school elections.
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While the district celebrates the approval of its $143 million school budget and other proposals at the polls this week, supporters of the district’s Montessori center at George Washington Elementary are hoping changes in the program — and pink slips for some of the staff at the school — don’t point to a quick end for the relatively new program.
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When I saw Fa-Mulan, the title of Cocoon Theatre’s latest production, the first thing I thought of was Mulan of Disney fame. I wasn’t alone; Ada Graham-Lowengard, 12-year-old homeschooler and local actor playing the title role, can relate: “I had heard the name Mulan, and I knew it was a Disney film, but other than that I had no clue what it was. I was really excited to do the play when I heard that she was disguising as a boy to be in the army; I’d read a story similar to that a few years ag...
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The Gardiner Cupcake Festival will take place this year on May 19 from noon to 6 p.m. at Wright’s Farm in Gardiner. The festival features a variety of cupcake vendors who combined will bring over 30,000 cupcakes. New to the festival this year is a cupcake-eating contest, in addition to the ever-popular amateur cupcake contest. Amateur cupcake makers from around the Hudson Valley will be judged in such categories as: best decorated, best tasting, best tasting vegan, best gluten free, best cock...
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The Lazy Swan Golf and Country Club village is a monument to swank. It sits in front of mountains, and stars hang above them as it darkens into a blue night. The smooth white walls of its outdoor bar and the glowing pink and purple borealis lights shine across the adjacent courtyard, where scores of beaming kids, and one older dude in a cowboy hat, are crowded around a Subaru, all smiling and laughing and striking a pose. A guy in front of them is wigging out, jumping in the air, trying to ge...
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