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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:51 am
Moshe Dresdner/Moishe Dressner. Photo via the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
3pm update: Moshe Dresdner, or Moishe Dressner, has been found in a Staten Island mall, according to The Catskill Scoop:
The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office and Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:06 am
This Friday, the rock-soul-folk band Two Dark Birds is holding a benefit concert for the Woodland Playhouse preschool in Phoenicia. The band's front man, Steve Koester, emailed us about why the preschool, which his daughter has attended, it so great:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 9:59 am
Above: A graph from yesterday's IDA report showing IDA tax breaks and job growth and loss by county. Greene County, in dark green, is picked out for having job loss despite giving out large IDA tax breaks.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 1:26 pm
Photo: Catskill Farms's Cottage 18. From Catskill Farms website.
Stop me if you've heard this one: New York City contractor moves to the sticks of Sullivan County, starts a home-building business on a shoestring, and begins buying land to build second... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 1:10 pm
Last Thursday, Frederick J. Neroni, a lawyer who runs a law office in Delhi, was stripped of his law license by a five-judge panel of the Third Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court for "fraudulent conduct prejudicial... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 1:06 pm
Photo of snowboards at Belleayre by Flickr user Steven Kreuser. Published under Creative Commons license.
Should the Belleayre Mountain ski center, currently run by the New York State Department of Conservation, be turned over to a quasi-private authority... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 9:23 am
Four people from Ulster County died in a boating accident on the Hudson River yesterday, and two more people barely escaped. The accident was horrific enough to make the papers across the state.
News accounts report that six people were riding in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Astute WP reader Laurie McIntosh alerted us to a fun fact today: In the past week, National Public Radio has been crawling with Catskillians.
Case in point: David Krajicek, front man of Blues Maneuver, a Catskills band that features a horn section to die... Read more
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