Two weeks ago, when John Burke was asked about the Ungerer, Seyferth, Siebold lawsuit against Woodbury he said "I've heard nothing about it since the December filing of the suit." (Photo News, 2/17, p. 34)
Is that all the involvement or interest that we want from the Town Supervisor?
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I think the last election divided this town.Those for changing some zoning to protect what we have and those for no new zoning and fight in court anyone who would try to change what we have. It's time we come together as a town. Have both sides put on the table what they have and sort out what is good and what can hurt us.We need to somehow put a fire under Woodbury's townfolk to get them interested in the TRUTH and what we can do to save the town. Any suggestions Uncle Betty
If you're looking for TRUTH you certainly aren't going to find it on this BLOG. I haven't read anything on here recently but lies, uninformed speculation and hateful rhetoric. At least when the real Uncle Betty was still writing the posts there was some wit and wisdom put forth. Hey Uncle B, time to come out of hibernation, this BLOG has gone steadily down hill since you went on hiatus.
History
The region was once called Woodbury Clove ("valley"). The Town of Woodbury was incorporated in 1889 (the town was originally created in 1863, but was dissolved soon afterwards).
The Town of Woodbury, which is comprised of the hamlets of Central Valley and Highland Mills; and the area which was formerly known as the hamlet of Woodbury Falls, was officially created on December 19, 1889 by an act of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. The first town meeting was held the following year on March 4th with John A. Patterson presiding as Supervisor. The second Supervisor was James Seaman. Eventhough the land is no longer used for farming, the Seaman family property can still be identified by a sign which reads “Sweet Clover Farm” along Route 32 on the northern end of town.
The Town of Woodbury was actually created twice - the first time in 1863 when the Board of Supervisors approved the division of Monroe into the three communities of Monroe, Tuxedo and Woodbury. Objections to this arose and two years later the Legislature was asked to overrule the Board's decision which it did by recreating the old Town of Monroe. In 1889 the Board of Supervisors reinstated the original separation and Woodbury was reborn.
Woodbury had gone through numerous geographic and name changes prior to its incorporation in 1889. Until 1764, the area was part of an enlarged Goshen. In that year, Goshen was divided into two parts with Woodbury becoming part of Cornwall. During the American Revolution, the area was shown on maps as Woodbury Clove. By 1799, Cornwall was also divided with Woodbury joining the present day Monroe and Tuxedo to become the Town of Cheesekook. This name was changed to Smithfield or Southfield and in 1808 became Monroe in honor of the newly elected United States President James Monroe.
No one is quite sure of the derivation of the name “Woodbury.” Some say it may have come from the Dutch word WODE for wood and meaning a dwelling place in the woods. Others claim that the many English families who settled here bestowed the name of a famous English family named Woodbury upon the area. As for the hamlets, Central Valley and Highland Mills were once called Lower Smith's Clove (clove meaning valley). Highland Mills was also known as Orange Post Office, but the residents changed it in 1824 with the present name most likely reflecting the mills, flour and tannery businesses in the area. A map dated about 1790 shows Woodbury Falls as being called Smithfields. It may have later taken its name from the once lovely falls there.
In addition to the flour and grist mills, the area's industry was dominated by a large tourism business as well as a famous fly rod (fishing rod) manufacturing business. Woodbury was the home to both the Payne Rod Company and the Leonard Rod Company.
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Geography
The town is adjacent to West Point, the United States Military Academy. Interstate 87 passes through the town.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 96.3 km² (37.2 mi²). 93.7 km² (36.2 mi²) of it is land and 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.72% water.
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Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 9,460 people, 3,117 households, and 2,546 families residing in the town. The population density is 101.0/km² (261.6/mi²). There are 3,358 housing units at an average density of 35.9/km² (92.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 90.18% White, 3.03% African American, 0.29% Native American, 2.60% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.21% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. 7.94% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 3,117 households out of which 46.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.9% are married couples living together, 8.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 18.3% are non-families. 15.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.03 and the average family size is 3.39.
In the town the population is spread out with 30.9% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 7.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 96.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.7 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $79,087, and the median income for a family is $84,156. Males have a median income of $59,744 versus $37,695 for females. The per capita income for the town is $28,566. 3.3% of the population and 1.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 3.1% of those under the age of 18 and 1.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line
Study: Lifting Weights Attacks Belly Fat By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press Writer
Fri Mar 3, 9:18 PM ET
By just lifting weights twice a week for an hour, women can battle the buildup of tummy fat that often takes hold with aging, a new study suggests. And they didn't even diet.
The study focused on intra-abdominal fat, the deep fat that wraps itself around organs and is the most unhealthy because it's linked with heart disease.
"One of the most common complaints in women, especially as we continue to age, especially as we go through menopause, the No. 1 complaint is abdominal growth," said Dr. Tracy Stevens, a cardiologist who directs the women's heart center at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City.
"It's the apple-shaped person I'm most worried about," said Stevens, who was not involved in the study. "The more central the fat, the more it's laid down in the arteries."
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and is being presented Friday at an American Heart Association conference in Phoenix.
In it, 164 overweight and obese Minnesota women ages 24 to 44 were divided evenly into two groups. One group participated in a two-year weight-training program and the other was simply given a brochure recommending exercise of 30 minutes to an hour most days of the week. Both groups were told not to change their diets in a way that might lead to weight changes.
Women who did the weight-training for two years had only a 7 percent increase in intra-abdominal fat, compared to a 21 percent increase in the group given exercise advice.
The strength-training group also decreased body fat percentage by almost 4 percent, while the group just given advice remained the same.
"I think we need to provide people with multiple possibilities, multiple roads to the same end. If this is what you're willing to do, I'll tell you what you can get out of it," said the lead author of the study, Kathryn Schmitz, an epidemiologist at the school of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers reported only marginal effects from the training on total fat mass and the fat you can pinch under the skin.
Using both free weights and machines, the women in the strength-training group worked out for about an hour and were encouraged to gradually increase the weights they lifted.
"This is not a program you could do in your home, unless you can afford to have a full gym in your basement," Schmitz said.
The women, who completed 70 percent of the advised exercise throughout the study, were in supervised strengthening classes for 16 weeks.
Schmitz said the focus was on chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, lower back, buttocks and thighs. She noted that adding muscle mass can help overweight women move faster so they burn more calories.
Dr. Rita F. Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California San Francisco, pointed out that since muscle burns more calories than fat, increasing muscle mass means losing more calories.
"Certainly, any kind of exercise is better than not doing anything," Redberg said. But for "maximal benefit, cardio with weight training will get a lot more bang for your buck."
"I think exercise is the fountain of youth," she said. "If it was a pill, everyone would be taking it."
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On the Net:
American Heart Association: http://www.americanheart.org
Warmwater Fish Farming
1. 1. Channel Catfish (ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS) Fair potential (food) Good potential (stocking)
Channel catfish is the most widely farmed food fish and one of the most important warmwater sportfish reared in the United States. This species has a number of desirable characteristics for rearing, including its high quality flesh that consists of firm white meat with few intramuscular bones and mild flavor, high tolerance of water temperature variations, rapid growth at water temperatures above 23 degrees C (74 degrees F), high tolerance of crowding, adaptability to a variety of natural and artificial farming systems, high feed conversion values, well- known growing requirements, and ready availability of eggs, fingerlings, and adult stocks.
As a sportfish, this species apparently does not compete drastically with other warmwater fish species and is widely stocked in bass-bluegill ponds--adding variety to anglers' catches.
2. Other Catfishes (ICTALURUS spp.) Poor potential (food and stocking)
The blue catfish (ICTALURUS FURCATUS) and the white catfish (ICTALURUS CATUS) are also reared commercially but to a lesser extent than channel catfish. Blue catfish exhibit slower growth and lower feed conversion efficiencies than channel catfish. White catfish do not grow as rapidly or to as large a size as channel catfish; they also do not dress out as well as other species due to their relatively large head.
Other species of catfish including the yellow bullhead (ICTALURUS NATALIS), brown bullhead (ICTALURUS NEBULOSUS), and flathead catfish (PYLODICTIS OLIVARIS), are not as suitable for farming for a variety of reasons.
Current Status:
Catfish farming is the leading fish farming industry in the United States. Commercial production of food-size catfish totalled about 77 million pounds in 1981. Production and consumption of catfish have increased annually since 1976. Farm- reared catfish now account for about two percent of total U.S. fish consumption.
About 60% of the total crop are marketed as food fish and about 40% are sold to stock private sport-fishing ponds and commercial fee-fishing ponds. Most of the catfish production in the U.S. occurs in the Lower Mississippi Valley where an abundance of water and flat land for pond construction and long growing seasons provide ideal conditions for catfish farming.
In Virginia, there are no commercial catfish farmers producing food fish. Over the past 20 years a number of residents have attempted catfish farming, but have had little success. Major problems associated with developing food catfish farms in Virginia are the relatively short growing season; competition with southern growers; the high costs of suitable land, labor, energy, and fish feed; lack of processing facilities and a well- defined market; and fish kills caused by summer oxygen depletion.
Small-scale catfish farming in Virginia can provide supplemental food and income for small and low income pond owners. However, the potential for large-scale commercial catfish farming directed at food fish production is limited.
In contrast, the potential for raising fingerling (small-sized) and adult catfish for stocking private fishing ponds and fee fishing waters in Virginia appears good. Virginia, with more than 80,000 warmwater ponds and lakes, provides a ready market for catfish for stocking. In addition, the growing popularity of catfish fee fishing ponds and lakes in the state is expected to provide a steady demand and ready market for catchable-sized catfish. During 1980, only two catfish farmers in the state were growing fish for stocking. At this time, about 50,000 fingerlings were produced in-state, but an additional 400,000 fingerlings were imported from out-of-state producers.
Figure 16 Growing seasons for warmwater fish.
Constraints/Problems:
Two major environmental factors adversely affecting the production of channel catfish in Virginia are the length of the growing season and summer oxygen depletion. The growing season for catfish (water temperatures above 23 degrees C or 73 degrees F) in Virginia ranges from about 200 days per year in the Coastal Plain and some Piedmont counties to about 150 days per year in the Mountain Province. Under these conditions, farm-reared catfish reach edible size in two or three years. Stocking larger-sized catfish (6 inches or more in length) would reduce the growing time for harvestable fish to about 9 months, but larger larger fish are much more expensive to purchase than eggs or small fingerlings.
The risk of fish kills is always present in catfish farming. Algae, stimulated by nutrients from uneaten food and fish excreta, may suddenly die. Their decomposition leads to oxygen depletion and fish mortalities. Aeration is one solution to preventing oxygen-related fish kills.
3. Largemouth bass (MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES) Poor potential (food) Good potential (stocking)
Most of the warmwater sportfish, including the largemouth bass and the sunfishes listed below, have little value for farming as food fish. However, nearly all of these species are extremely popular with anglers. Thus, farming warmwater sportfish to sell for stocking private recreational fishing waters appears to have good potential.
The largemouth bass is probably the most important warmwater sportfish in the United States. About 18 million anglers spend over 300 million days fishing for largemouth bass and sunfish in the U.S. each year. In Virginia, over 700,000 adult and youth anglers fish for this species annually.
To help meet this large and growing public demand, government hatcheries in the U.S. produce and stock into public waters more than 8 million fingerling and adult largemouth bass annually. In many states, including Virginia, fish reared in government hatcheries are stocked only in public waters. Private pond owners must buy fish for stocking from commercial hatcheries.
In Virginia, demand for fingerling and adult largemouth bass for stocking private farm ponds, fishing club waters, golf course ponds, fee-fishing lakes, and for corrective stocking in waters with unbalanced fish populations, is high and exceeds in-state production. Only about 100,000 fingerling bass are produced in commercial hatcheries in the state at present.
Largemouth bass farming is relatively simple. It usually consists of stocking a pond with adults and allowing them to spawn naturally, and then removing the adults or young to prevent cannibalism. Controlling predation and spawning times, producing fertile eggs on demand, training fish to accept artificial feeds or maintaining natural food (usually bait minnows) are the major problems involved with largemouth bass farming.
Figure 18 Largemouth bass are popular sportfish.
4. Sunfishes (LEPOMIS spp.) Poor potential (food) Fair potential (stocking)
Sunfishes are generally considered unsuitable for commercial farming as food fish. However, they are very popular sportfish, particularly with children. Thus, sunfish often are farmed to stock recreational fishing waters.
The two most commonly stocked sunfish species are the bluegill (LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS) and the redear of "shellcracker" (LEPOMIS MICROLOPHUS). These species are often stocked at high densities.
They add variety to the anglers' catch. The redear is commonly stocked with bluegills since it grows to a larger size, inhabits deeper water, and does not have as high a reproductive rate as the bluegill. A number of other species of sunfish have been used for stocking ponds, but usually with poor results.
In Virginia, at least four commercial growers produce sunfish for sale to pond owners. Annual production averages about 500,000 fingerling sunfish. The major problem associated with sunfish farming involves their high natural reproductive rate. Sunfish spawn readily, producing large numbers of eggs several times during the summer, which often leads to overcrowding and stunting. These unbalanced fish populations provide an opportunity for sunfish farmers to market fish for stocking, since the only realistic solution is to kill all fish in an unbalanced pond by draining and poisoning, and then to restock the pond.
5. Striped bass (MORONE SAXATILIS) Good potential (food) Good potential (stocking)
The striped bass is a major food and sport fish on the Atlantic coast of North America. This species thrives in both salt and fresh water, but must spawn in or near fresh water. Construction of the Santee-Cooper Reservoir in South Carolina and Buggs Island Lake in Virginia trapped some of these anadromous (running up rivers to spawn) fish in fresh water. These landlocked stripers subsequently spawned in the tributary streams of the reservoirs, creating excellent sport fisheries.
Currently, about 10 inland reservoirs in the U.S. support naturally reproducing populations of striped bass. An additional 280 inland reservoirs have striped bass fisheries sustained by stocking fingerlings produced at federal and state government hatcheries.
Striped bass is an extremely important sportfish in the United States. About 4 million anglers spend almost 60 million days fishing for striped bass. To meet this growing demand, government hatcheries produce and stock into public waters about 40 million fingerling striped bass annually. At present, only a few private commercial hatcheries are attempting to produce this species for profit.
A strong demand for striped bass to stock into private recreational waters and for human consumption exists. In Virginia, and most other states, no commercial producers are farming striped bass. The Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries rears about 1 million fingerling striped bass annually for stocking public waters, but these are not available for stocking private waters.
Unavailability of seed stock is the major problem constraining commercial striped bass farming. Other problems include low survival rates, cannibalism, and disease and parasite infection. But the culture requirements are known and the potential for striped bass farming for food and sportfish production is high. The possibilities of "sea ranching" this species in coastal Virginia adds another opportunity.
"Lies, uninformed speculation and hateful rhetoric"...could you please point out where this exists?? And please be specific, and feel free to include what you must know as the TRUTH. (This should be entertaining!)
OK, you got me, there really isn't a strong demand for striped bass.
Anonymous #4
Could you please e-mail your information on belly fat to Carol Mullooly. I really think she could benefit.
Anonymous#3
Thank you for the history lesson!
Anonymous#2
Your funny. who do you think hijacked Uncle Betty and has an alien taken his place?
Anonymous #1
Right on!
and Uncle Betty
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I was starting to get really sweaty,
because we haven't heard from Uncle Betty,
I am quick for a fix,
I miss the Uncle's tricks,
and relish the words of our own betty.
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