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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Global warming?
With winter weather nowhere to be found, golf courses remain open through mid-December
School board extends
Superintendent’s contract
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
On December 1, the Highland school
board approved a three-year extension of
Superintendent Deborah Haab’s contract
through June 30, 2019.
In 2009 Haab’s annual salary was
$149,000 and in 2013 the district raised it to
$155,500. In the new agreement the district
set her salary for the 2015-16 school year at
$165,000. Health benefits are in addition to
this base figure.
Moving forward, the school board will
base any salary increases for the 2016-17
through 2018-19 school years on an evaluation of Haab’s performance, according to
priority goals that the board will establish
each year on July 1st. The contract states
that the board will award salary increases
of 0% to 4% based upon these annual evaluations. The percentages had previously
been 2.25% for exceptional performance,
1% for proficient performance and 0% for
needing improvement.
The new agreement also increases
Haab’s annual longevity payment to $2,000
after 5 years of service and to $5,000 after
10 years of service to the district. This is
non-cumulative and is not added to the
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A quartet of golfers hit the Apple Greens Golf Course in Highland on Sunday during a very late fall “heat wave.”
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Unseasonably warm temperatures
in recent weeks have forestalled the
closing of many golf courses across the
Hudson Valley for the winter. A lack
of snow and temperatures in the mid
50s and even touching into the 60s have
allowed courses to remain open beyond
the normal end of the playing season.
Jim Delmar, Club Manager at
Apple Greens Golf Course in Highland,
said they normally close around
Thanksgiving but were planning to
close on Dec. 15. They will reopen in
March 2016 “if the weather cooperates.”
“It seems like every three or four
years we’ve been open later…but this
is one of our longer years this year,”
he said. “We could probably be open
another week or so but the owner [Dave
Roehrs] always makes the choice to
close on the 15th.”
Delmar said people have been coming out to play during the week and on
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weekends, adding that he has seen from
120 to 170 golfers on a good day playing their 27-hole course. He said these
attendance figures are not too far off
from the summertime when the course
averages 200 players a day.
Larry Furey, owner of the championship 9-hole New Paltz Golf Course,
said business has been very good.
“We had a fantastic November and
December ourselves, especially after
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