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Several years ago -- maybe even 10 -- I felt it necessary to establish a website about building expansion at Schoharie school so I did that, and called it the Tattler. I was thinking of Addison and Steele's Tatler, published a few hundred years ago in London.

We shook things up a little, the school quieted down, and we discontinued the Tattler. Then, at the end of 2005, the Gilboa Dam crisis erupted and we started the Code Orange web site, later called Gilboa Dam Watcher. As we were phasing that out, the quarry issue erupted, the village decided to diddle unfair water rates to benefit owners of apartment buildings at expense of single-family homes, and the new school superintendent decided there could be yet another building project, this at "no cost" to residents. In the circumstances, I decided to reestablish the Tattler.

Lester E. Hendrix,
PO Box 711,
Schoharie NY 12157

Lester@SchoharieTattler.com
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Gilboa Man Arrested on Insurance Fraud
16 March 2010

State police arrested James E. Papas, 48, of Gilboa, on charges of third degree insurance fraud and third degree arson last week.

Officials said Papas claimed he was thrown out of a bedroom window by an explosion early on Oct. 6. He told authorities he landed on the ground 35 feet from the mobile home which was destroyed by fire.

Following the fire he drove to Cobleskill Regional Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. Then, he filed an insurance claim and was paid $2,000 through his homeowners' insurance policy, the official state news release says.

Investigators say the furnace did not explode and the fire had been purposefully set. The state said his homeowners' insurance policy was scheduled to expire two days after the fire.

Read the state Insurance Department article