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• May 13th - Download article: The politics of water: A Woodstock Times interview with New York City's DEP Commissioner Christopher Ward

• May 12th - Download article: Proposed Catskills resort to get hearing. THE JOURNAL NEWS

• April 29th - Hammer Down: New York City delivers crushing blow to Gitter's Belleayre Resort proposal - Article from the Woodstock Times

CONTINUAL UPDATES:

Source: Phoenicia Times
Article: Phoenicia Times Special Section - Belleayre Resort Information.

ARCHIVE:

Date: 02/13/04
Source: Daily Freeman
Article: Comment period on resort plan extended by two months
Summary: The state Department of Environmental Conservation has extended by two months the public comment period on a proposed golf resort near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.

Date: 02/05/04
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: ...Continued
Summary: Short session is long on opposition to Gitter project; more to come
a newly scheduled fourth session at 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 19, also at the high school.

Date: 02/04/04
Source: Daily Freeman
Article: Golf resort foes make themselves heard
Summary: Opinion was heavily lopsided against the proposed Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park at a state public hearing that drew about 80 people through a snowstorm Tuesday afternoon.

Date: 01/29/04
Source: The Phoenicia Times
Article: Lining Up Against: Public Hearings Batter Crossroads As City Gears Up To Battle The Resort's DEIS
Summary: The long-awaited public hearings on Dean Gitter's proposed $300 million Belleayre Resort got underway in the last two weeks, with large numbers of opponents stepping forward to lambaste the planned complex of hotels, golf courses, condos and retail shopping

Date: 01/25/04
Source: Daily Freeman
Article: One resort, two views, many voices
Summary: POLITICIANS, advocacy groups, local business boosters and private citizens are choosing sides as a proposed Catskills resort that would be the largest development of its kind in recent history enters the latest phase of the review process.

Date: 1/22/2004
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: Stakes higher as New York City's response is awaited
Summary: With many predicting that approval for Dean Gitter's controversial Belleayre Resort proposal will become a battle between New York City and New York State, the rhetoric reached a higher pitch at the Tuesday, January 20 public hearing that attracted a full house to Onteora High School.

Date: 1/15/04
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: Showdown in Margaretville: The line is long to respond to Belleayre Resort proposal
Summary: It took Dean Gitter four attempts to answer WAMC-FM correspondent Alison Dunn's question about environmentalists' concerns being voiced at the first of two regional public hearings on his massive Belleayre Resort project, in the old-style gymnasium and auditorium at the Margaretville High School just over the border from Shandaken in Delaware County.

Date: 1/15/04
Source: The Phoenicia Times
Article: Lots To Be Heard
Summary: Public Hearings On Crossroads Project Start With A Heavy Line-Up Against

Date: 1/8/2004
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: Soulful mountains: Public Hearings on Gitter's Belleayre Resort are set
Summary: A grand battle for what some consider the soul of the mountains will move into an open arena in the heart of the Catskills, when comment is solicited, live, at the first official Public Hearing on developer Dean Gitter's Crossroads Ventures $300 million resort proposal since its Draft Environmental Impact Statement was declared complete.

Date: 12/4/2003
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: Done draft: State DEC says Gitter's DEIS is complete
Summary: The state Department of Environmental Conservation has declared complete the 1,000-plus page Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Belleayre Resort at Catskill Park, submitted by developer Dean Gitter's Crossroads Ventures LLC a little over two years ago, setting in motion a public comment period scheduled to last 75 days into the middle of February.

Date: 7/24/2003
Source: The Woodstock Times
Article: The Air of Democracy
Summary: indeed, the Crossroads project remains the centerpiece of a likely divisive campaign

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