Olive’s Burgher is honored as Woman of Distinction
Rosalie Burgher, the retired Olive Free Library director who was awarded the Woman of Distinction Award for the 51st senate district at the 16th annual senate Women of Distinction ceremony at the state Capitol in Albany Tuesday, calls books, and libraries, a lifelong addiction. “I grew up in Idaho and our town library, I remember,...
Comptroller slaps Olive
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, in a February 6 press release, rebuked some of the town of Olive’s management practices, stating that, “Internal controls over information technology do not adequately protect the town’s electronic data. The town board has not adopted an acceptable computer use policy, a breach notification policy or a disaster recovery...
Beans to bar Fruition Chocolate Works celebrates its anniversary
Bryan Graham dips a spoon into the spinning vat of lightening brown goo he’s been grinding and mixing for five days now, talking the whole time about how the human tongue can detect grittiness up to a certain point, of which he likes to get far on the other side. He holds it out for...
Route 28A is the new speedway
It was only a month ago that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection formally announced the completion of its multi-year improvement project for Route 28A in the town of Olive, first promised after the city closed down the old “lemon squeeze” viaduct roadway running from West Shokan to the Dividing Weir over the...
Olive businesses coming and going
Kevin Pitcock, whose holding an all-day Grand Opening for Sheldon Hill Forestry Supplies in Shokan this Saturday, March 24, is happy about having bought the longstanding Olive business last autumn, and already feeling his move up Route 28 from where he used to be based in West Hurley is pitch perfect. “It’s a little bit...