Government
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Last week's public meeting about the Partition Street development project in Saugerties is still prompting reactions. Peter Solow of Saugerties has published a public comment on the Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development website in which he suggests... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 11:38 am
Shouting Thomas, a nurse and EMT-in-training from Woodstock, had to spend yesterday's gorgeous weather sitting inside, taking a class on how to drive an ambulance. Luckily, the class was held at Woodstock's Fire Department, so he got an up-close look at a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:45 pm
The proposed conference center development for Partition Street in the village of Saugerties was debated last night at a long-awaited public meeting of the village's Planning Board. Today, the conversation is still going on at the comment boards at the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:29 pm
According to a press release sent by Congressman Maurice Hinchey's office today, Gov. Paterson can't possibly close 41 state parks, because federal law doesn't allow it.
[T]he head of the National Park Service (NPS) told the congressman this week that the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:31 am
Aaaaand the prize goes to the Shawangunk Journal, for yesterday's story on flooding in Wawarsing: "Pump and Circumstance."
Part of Wawarsing is perched atop New York City's leaking Delaware Aqueduct. State senator John Bonacic is trying to get approval... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:07 am
Something strange haunts a certain house on North Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz. You may have noticed it. One recent commentor on the Ulster Publishing forum did:
If you are driving on Henry Dubois Road in New Paltz where it intersects with North... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 10:02 am
The EPA announced yesterday that the agency will conduct a two-year, $1.9 million, peer-reviewed study of the effects of horizontal natural gas drilling on drinking water.
Bring it on, gas companies say--but the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that shares... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 10:47 pm
Long Island Democrat Steve Levy jumps fence, joins GOP, declares he's running for governor. This should be fun.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Federal antitrust top cop Christine Varney has been talking to farmers across the nation lately about anti-competitive agricultural markets. On March 29, she'll be at Genesee Community College to get an earful from New York's dairy farmers.
Farmers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:30 am
Last night, Ulster county legislators voiced their approval of the latest plan for a resort to be built near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center by Dean Gitter, a developer with Crossroads Ventures LLC. The Daily Freeman reports that 27 legislators voted in... Read more



