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-------------------------------------------------------------------------SERVING YATES AND SCHUYLER COUNTIES SINCE 1878 -------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------- D u n d e e O b s e r v e r 400 Volume 113 , Number 28 Thursday, December 26, 1991 Dundee, New York 400 DCS board will give building plan to voters School board considers plans K e l l i C r o n i n DUNDEE - The Dundee school board discussed design and finance aspects o f proposed building addition and renovation plans last Tuesday night, Dec. 17 in the DCS cafeteria. They did not vote to approve the plans presented, but set that vote for a Thursday, Dec. 19 special meeting. Superintendent Nancy Zimar presented a history of the plan, from its beginning in 1989 when See PLANS page 6 Board sets February vote M a r y G e o T o m i o n DUNDEE - The Dundee school board at its second meet ing o f the week passed a series o f resolutions paving the way to a public vote on plans to renovate and add to the building. At Thursday's special meet ing all the board members but two approved two options and three other propositions to be pre sented to voters Tuesday, Feb. 11. Option I includes a $6.8 See VOTE page 6 D u n d e e e l e m e n t a r y c h i l d r e n w a n d e r i n t h e W i n t e r W o n d e r l a n d m i n i a t u r e v i l l a g e t h a t h a s b e c o m e a n a n n u a l d e l i g h t a t D C S . A n e l a b o r a t e V i c t o r i a n m a n s i o n m a d e a n d f u r n i s h e d i n l a v i s h d e t a i l b y t e a c h e r D i a n e M e r c o m e s a n d a v i l l a g e c h u r c h c r e a t e d b y B o b A n d r e w s s i t o n a s n o w y s t r e e t c o m p l e t e w i t h w o r k i n g s t r e e t l i g h t s a n d a c o m m u n i t y C h r i s t m a s t r e e . S e e p a g e 3 . P h o t o b y G r e g g M o r r i s Landlord fined in aftermath of Union Street fire Schuyler holds levy down with 15 job cuts M a r y G e o T o m i o n DUNDEE - The owner of the house at 40 Union Street in Dundee that was damaged by fire Oct. 17 was fined $100 for not providing smoke detectors in the building's four apartments. Raymond Knafo of Hillcrest Drive in Penn Yan agreed to a guilty plea without appearing in Dundee village court before acting justice John W ilgus Monday, Dec. 16. The charge, a violation of a state law that says every apart ment must have a smoke detector, was brought by village code enforcement officer Tom Wignali. Wignall was alerted to the See FIRE page 4 M i k e M y e r s W A T K INS GLEN - The Schuyler County legislature passed its budget Wednesday, Dec. 18 with a 10.6% increase in the tax levy. The le v y w ill be $5,378,027; last year’s was $4,862,337. The total budget this year will be $15,860,694; last year it was $15,853,877. To get the budget and levy to an acceptable level, fifteen workers were laid off and four reduced to part-time. Deep cuts were made in spending plans in all departments. Finance chairman Angeline Franzese said, \I hope this year is one o f a kind. I hope we don’t have another one like it.\ County attorney William Ruger announced earlier that he would not seek re-appointment after his term expires Dec. 31, and that he is using up his vacation time until then. Ruger's action was triggered, according to assistant county attorney Braddock Pearce, by the legislature’s decision to cut his confidential secretary's hours to part-time. Now acting as county attorney, Pearce had earlier announced his own resignation See LEVY page 5 T y l e r E a v e s , a m e m b e r o f N a n c y P e e l l e ' s f i r s t g r a d e c l a s s a t D C S , h a s f u n c l i m b i n g t h e b i g r o p e i n g y m c l a s s . P h o t o b y G r e g g M o r r i s Merry Christmas! Wayne gets early payback from state for highway project WAYNE - The state o f New York has reimbursed the town o f Wayne early-and in one payment instead o f the four it had prom ised-for a highway fund project completed last summer. Supervisor Merton Plaisted said the $18,253 in CHIPS funds were to repay the town's expenditure on a black-topping job on Shorewood Drive. The state had said the money would be sent to Wayne in four equal payments in 1992, but Plaisted was pleased to get it early and all at once. The town has received its new equalization rate from the state, and, according to Plaisted, it will mean an increased burden for local taxpayers. The new rate, 12.87%, is \way down\ from the previous 18.39%. \I don't know how much it's going to affect town and county taxes, but it may have an effect on next year's school taxes,\ he said. The reason for the new rate is the high price of property on the lake, Plaisted said. Town assessors are working to get data into the town's computer in preparation for a re-assessment based on full value in the next few years. The Wayne town board is setting up a building inspection program instead o f continuing to have Steuben County do it. \The present county rates are really outrageous,\ Plaisted said. The planning board and many prop erty owners have been unhappy with charges that sometimes reach $500, \so we're going to get back into the building inspec tion business,\ he said. The See WAYNE page 4 Dundee resident gets kidney transplant DUNDEE - Jeff Stray line of Seneca Street, Dundee is \doing pretty good\ after a kidney transplant, according to his father, Lawrence Strayline. He received the donated kidney two weeks ago after a 2:30 a.m. Sunday call telling him to com e to Syracuse's Upstate Medical Center. \He was out o f here within twenty minutes,\ his father said. The surgery took place at 7 p.m. the same day. A former Dundee village trustee, Strayline had been on the list to receive a kidney for two years. He had been on dialysis since junior high school. Jeffs doctors are optimistic that the treatment designed to keep his body from rejecting the donated kidney w ill be successful. \The match was See KIDNEY page 3 Inside: # Winter Wonderland delights kids page 3 • H ogm a n a y? page 5 • A whole page of puzzles, page 9 # The meaning of Christmas,page 11 Regular features: Correspondents, p. 13 Columnists, p. 15 Classifieds, p. 18 Calendar, p. 19 ?
