One day in 1953, the acclaimed sculptor Augusta Savage gave a gift to the Finger family, her white neighbors near the same Saugerties road that now bears her name. It was a bust she’d made of their six-year-old son, Wesley. Wesley Finger, now 79, still has the bust. It’s a treasured reminder of a childhood […]
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Onteora Mulls Options After Voters Reject $70 Million School Consolidation Plan
Ben Fleisher remembers debates over school consolidation when he was a student at Onteora High School. Now 46 and raising children of his own in the district, the acupuncturist and Olive resident said this week’s failed vote to centralize students at a single campus in Boiceville reflects a deeper community rupture. “The community owes it […]
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Voters Reject $70 Million Onteora School Consolidation Plan
Area voters spurned Proposition 2 on Tuesday, rejecting a $70 million consolidation plan by the Onteora Central School District that officials had called crucial as enrollment declines—breathing new life into hopes that Woodstock can retain its elementary school, which has educated generations of children. The measure failed by a vote of 1,398 to 1,164, according […]
