HUNTING TAVERN NEWS – February 2022
By Joanne Kosuda-Warner A rousing thank you to everyone who has donated to the building fund for the Old Village Fire Hall! With our year-end appeal, we’ve raised about $9000. We intend to seek additional funding from private Foundations and government organizations to help pay for needed repairs. The Old Village Fire Hall was acquired by…
YOU ARE MOVING WHERE? – February 2022
Dede tells of the search for a retirement community and how she found ANDES.
GRANT FOR LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DISCUSSED CODE ENFORCEMENT CAN ACCESS $ FINES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE
Renovation of the Antique Fire Hall, No Parking info for snow removal and other reports.
ANNUAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING FOR GRANT PROPOSAL – February 2023
Organizational Appointments, Highway and Supervisor’s reports.
BOOK REVIEWS: CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY, ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES; GABRIELLE ZEVIN, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW; BONNIE GARMUS, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY; CELESTE NG, OUR MISSING HEARTS.
Jane reviews a few books that were recently published and that she has enjoyed.
MOUNTAINEER TRACKS – February 2023
The ACS Sli Club has partnered with Ski Plattekill to bring skiing opportunity to our students.
TAB CONSTRUCTION PRESENTS GRANT PLANS FOR THE OLD TOWN GARAGE HARLAND DYE APPOINTED CHAIR OF THE PLANNING BOARD – February 2023
By Peter Calvert Andes Planning Board, January 9, Board: Harland Dye, Chair, Bill Palmer, Katherine “Cricket” Keys, Frank Winkler, Joanne Callahan, and Art Reed. Assisting: JoAnn Boerner, Clerk, Kent Manuel, DelCo Planning Board, and Al Mohr, Town C.E.O. Present: Travis Balcom, TAB Construction, Bud Gladstone, Town Supervisor, Cyndi Wright, and Peter Calvert, Gazette. Frank Winkler…
THE WAY WE WERE – February 2023
Death announcements, February temperature statistics and other interesting tid-bits.
PEPACTON – a NOVEL COMING SOON TO AMAZON KINDLE -February 2023
The article is an intro to a Kindle Book written by Tami Jaegel, Andes Public Library Assistant Librarian. The novel will be available soon.
ANDES CELEBRATES – January 2023
Various photos taken during December as Andes Celebrates Tree Lighting, and Soup Night at the Hunting Tavern.
FROM DINGLE HILL: For The Birds – January 2023
Peg tells us how to keep birds from banging on windows.
MARK PROJECT DESCRIBES GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR LARGE TOWN 2023 BUDGET WAS APPROVED, BELOW 2% TAX CAP – January 2022
Town 2023 Budget was approved. The tax increase will be 1.90% which is below the 2% tax cap.
TAB CONSTRUCTION PRESENTS PLAN FOR OLD TOWN GARAGE JOHN REYNOLDS TO RETIRE FROM PLANNING BOARD – January 2023
Travis Balcom presented his application for remodeling of the Old Town Garage on Route 28 just outside the Hamlet. John Reynolds retiring from the Planning Board.
BOOK REVIEW: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – January 2023
A work of tremendous scope and ambition, this novel dares to imagine what it would take to protect the entire world from environmental collapse.
Holiday Sing-a-Long – January 2023
On Tuesday evening, December 13th, 52 ACS students from Pre-K to 8th grade, ably introduced by a contingent from the High School, brought the holiday spirit alive.
LIBRARY NOTES – January 2023
A recap of all that happened in 2022 and a preview of what is to come in 2023
THE WAY WE WERE – January 2023
Mt Marcy becomes the property of the state by deed – the state now owns 40 of the 42 highest mountains.
GARDEN THERAPY: My Parting Wisdom (or at least opinions:)
After nine years of writing this column, it is seriously hard to know what to write for a final offering. I don’t want to be pithy, mushy or too matter-of-fact.
The truth is that it has been great fun and such a learning experience to write for the Andes Gazette.
ANDES ALSO ROCKS – December 2022
As of November 11th Winter touched Andes. I started only the third fire of the season, which coincided with my bringing in a couple of heads of cabbage, plus using the last of my summer tomatoes— impressed that 95% of the 100+ green cherry tomatoes I had picked ripened on the windowsill.
BOOK REVIEW: LUCY BY THE SEA by Elizabeth Strout – December 2022
In Lucy by the Sea, the sequel to Oh, William (reviewed here last year), Strout has once again adopted a plain, down-to-earth manner. The speaker sounds neither highly educated nor very articulate, but comes across as an ordinary person with no claim to being special. If anything, the tone is more flat-footed than ever. But the enterprise is not pedestrian.
ME AND MY CARS – December 2022
My recent cars, seemingly good purchases at the time, became fraught with problems, including those anxiety-inducing dashboard warnings that persist despite reassurances from mechanics that they portend nothing.
LIBRARY NOTES – December 2022
It has come to our attention that people who signed up for a digital library card over the pandemic via www.4cls.org will need to make sure they have picked up their physical card, which is a different barcode number.
MOUNTAINEER TRACKS – December 2022
Our students have lost so many opportunities over the last couple of years, but we were able to provide lots of fun events on Halloween. We would like to thank the Andes branch of Wayne Bank and the Andes Public Library for inviting our littlest ones to visit them during their parade through town.
CATSKILLS CHARACTERS – December 2022
The mural in the library is coming along “slowly but slowly,” as my husband would say. It’s the Catskills, after all. No “New York minute” around here! Rip Van Winkle is just waking up in the scene after sleeping 20 years. Hopefully I won’t take that long!
TODAY IN LOCAL HISTORY – December 2022
1st printed in the Catskill Mountain News of November 9, 1923 and reprinted in the Delaware Republican Newspaper
November 17, 1923 – Ku Klux Klan active on Election Night!
DANCING IN ANDES – December 2022
The Andes Dance Collective, led by dancer/choreographers Gloria McLean and Columbine Macher, and composer/musician Marshall Coid, once again brought new dance and music to our area, producing two weekend workshops and two very special performances.
REMEMBERING JACK McSHANE – December 2022
Jack first came to the Catskills region in 1973, when he and his wife Nancy bought 10 acres near Hancock, where Jack and his son Kris enjoyed fishing together. Seeking more solitude and pristine space, in the preserved watershed lands, they bought their property in Andes, which eventually numbered over 300 acres.
BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT ON CROSS MOUNTAIN ROAD FALL CLOVEAD BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT DECLINED AT PRESENT – December 2022
Howard Kipnes has 254 acres on Fall Clove Road he would like to divide into 5 parcels as a Major Subdivision request. Incidentally, a portion of his property crosses the Andes Town line into Delhi and a portion adjoins one edge of Hamden.
BALLANTINE PARK FUNDRAISER NETS $1,000 – December 2022
Above is a check from a successful fundraiser which Carol Ames organized for Ballantine Park (pictured on the right). Catskill Creative, an art and design company owned and operated by Peter Ames, donated $5 to a pool of money every time a “post” he designed was shared on social media.
GARDEN THERAPY: Continuing to Grow – November 2022
Mel talks about the benefits of having or renting a backhoe for heavy landscaping projects.
GUEST WiFi SERVICE PROVIDED IN ANDES BY DIRTY GIRL APPLICATION FOR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE INPROVEMENT GRANT SUBMITTED MARK PROJECT IS SEEKING INPUT FROM TOWN PEOPLE ON WORTHY PROJECTS – November 2022
Possible Guest Wi-Fi at Dirty Girl Farm etc.
THE WAY WE WERE – November 2022
The Delaware & Northern railroad is advertising a hearing at Albany on November 13, to show cause why the Andes branch of the said railroad should not be discontinued. – William Henry Fritts ends his life by hanging.
IS YOUR ADDRESS CLEARLY VISIBLE TO FIRST RESPONDERS? – November 2022
A Reminder from our First Responders – important.
HUNTING TAVERN NEWS – November 2022
A recap of all that was accomplished during the year at The Hunting Tavern.
FROM DINGLE HILL: ON FLYING SOUTH – November 2022
Peg discusses bird migration and lovingly remembers Jack McShane.
LIVE-WIRE STUDENTS CREATE A LIVING FENCE – June 2022
By Buffy Calvert A living fence now surrounds the outdoor garden plots on Andes Central School grounds. For two weeks Ed McGee’s 7th and 8th grade science students and Sharon Tucker’s elementary art class have been hard at work removing sod and digging a trench 18 inches deep, extending the arc of the arbor previous…
GARDEN THERAPY: Perdy Persicarias – Fleeceflowers – June 2022
This article by Mel is all about “Fleeceblowers – or Persicarias”
BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT ON BUSSEY HOLLOW ROAD APPROVED; POTENTIAL CATSKILL HARVEST CARBON-NEUTRAL GREENHOUSE SENT TO PUBLIC HEARING – June 2022
Town of Andes Planning Board Meeting
PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON PROPOSED TRANSIENT RENTALS LAW; POTENTIAL TOWN GAS STATION SITES STILL LOOK PROMISING – June 2022
Town of Andes Board Meeting
DEP POLICE GIVES HELICOPTER ORIENTATION TO ANDES FIRE DEPARTMENT – June 2022
The DEP Police showed their newest helicopter with its state-of-the-art technology to the Andes Fire Department and discuss ways the two organizations can work together in a state of emergency.
LIBRARY NOTES – June 2022
By Pamela West-Finkle Summer is here! Yay! We made it through another Catskill Mountain winter. I’ve heard that phrase and said it to myself every year. I am happy to announce we have an action-packed Summer! In celebration of our Summer Reading Program “Oceans of Possibilities” and the 100th Anniversary of our library, I plan…
BOOK REVIEW: Briefly noted – Earthly Remains by Donna Leon – June 2022
As the New York Times critic Marilyn Stasio has said: “Donna Leon can do no wrong . . . [Earthly Remains] is one of her best.”
THE WAY WE WERE – May 2022
How many of the older inhabitants remember the winter of 1873-4??? Read all about it.
OLD TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE IS OFFERED FOR SALE VIA SEALED BIDS Audit shows $124,000 Increase in Town General Fund – March 2022
Hamlet sidewalks, streetlamps, frozen water lines, mechanical issue at transfer station, and much more.
THE WAY WE WERE – March 2022
Town clerk issues a marriage license but left without tying the know – and other mini stories.
MOUNTAINEER TRACKS – March 2022
The third quarter began on January 31st. I am pleased to report that nearly 75% of our 5-12 students were named to the Superintendent’s List, High Honor, or Honor Roll for the second quarter.
MUSINGS ON TENNIS – November 2018
Gino plays tennis on Andes’ courts, enjoys it, but realizes he doesn’t play like his 25-year-old self did.
