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Staff Report
Building activity in the Town of Middletown showed a slight decline in 2012, according to Code Enforcement Officer Patrick Davis.

The CEO presented a report from the Building and Zoning Department to the town board at its February meeting.
The total number of building permits for the township, outside the villages of Margaretville and
Fleischmanns, totaled 117, down two from the previous year.

Pine Hill — The Pine Hill Community Center will sponsor a series of three free workshops  for all ages designed to help would-be gardeners plan, plant, maintain, and harvest a small vegetable garden.   The workshops, led by horticulturist Andrew Messinger and farmer Madalyn Warren, will be hands-on, using the center’s small garden space.  Participants will take away practical information and some start-up seeds and/or plants. They will also be able to participate in the cultivation of the PHCC Community Garden

Pine Hill — The 26th broadcast of Catskill Cabaradio on Saturday, March 9 will be a tribute to Terry Doyle, one of the program’s originators, who passed away suddenly on February 6. 

Terry was instrumental in finding musical talent for this quarterly event as well as helping the show make a seamless transition to its live radio broadcast on WIOX Community Radio.  All proceeds from raffle tickets sold at the show will go to the Terry Doyle Fund to continue Terry’s work of supporting local music at WIOX, where Terry produced nine hours of music and interviews every week.  

By Geoff Samuels
Lauren Davis and Diana Cope both filed petitions to run for the position of mayor of Margaretville. The deadline for filing petitions was February 13.

The winner will succeed Bill Stanton, who decided not to seek re-election after spending 10 years as mayor. Profiles of each candidate follow. Davis has run for the mayoral post on two other occasions. This is Cope’s first campaign for public office.

Lauren Davis

By Geoff Samuels
The Andes Town Board has tabled a resolution to join the Sheriffs’ Association and numerous other entities in opposing the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (NY SAFE).

After hearing from several members of the public at last Tuesday’s meeting, the town board agreed to delay any vote on the measure, pending modifications to the proposed resolution.

By Joe Moskowitz
It’s President’s Week. And for the first time in three years there’s plenty of snow at area ski and snowboard resorts. That should make restaurant and lodging facility owners happy, but there is at least one huge, dark cloud over the silver lining. The cloud’s name is “Sandy.”

Because of schools being closed following Hurricane “Sandy,” many downstate kids have to make up the lost time and don’t have the full week off, and that means the loss of money for businesses that still haven’t recovered from a storm that made a direct hit, “Irene.”

By Brian Sweeney
The Roxbury, one of the world’s most interesting lodging facilities, will be featured on “America’s Best Kept Secrets” on HGTV this Friday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m.

There are a lot of choices on TV these days and The Roxbury continues to pop up as a featured point of interest.

The Roxbury will also be spotlighted on two additional programs this spring. The facility’s not-so-ordinary fish tank will be explored on the Animal Planet show “Tanked,” on Friday, April 5 at 9 p.m.

The Big Indian-Oliverea Fire Co. Inc. and Ladies’ Auxiliary sponsored its annual Christmas and Installation Dinner at the Alpine Inn in Oliverea on January 11.
Hosts Eric and Edna Griesser and son, Jamie, must be commended for the superb feast they provided.

President George Long welcomed everyone and John Rossitz presented the Invocation. Guest were introduced as well as the commissioners: Chairman Richard Bennett, Brian Kelly, Bill Rudge, Clark Van Etten and newly-elected Gayle Yeomans.

By Jay Braman Jr.
Unless there’s a last-minute write-in campaign, as has happened in Fleischmanns in the recent past, this year’s election features just three seated Village trustees all running unopposed.
All three seek two-year terms in March 19 balloting.

The deadline for filing an intent to run for village office came and went last Wednesday with only Mayor Todd Pascarella and Trustees Ben Fenton and David Yates submitting the proper paperwork to get a spot on the ballot voters will see on Election Day.