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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 8:41 am
As we mentioned last week, vintage baseball players from around the region gathered in the village of Fleischmanns over the weekend to attempt to break the world record for the longest baseball marathon ever played. Watershed Post correspondent (and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 28, 2011 - 11:18 am
Above: The Catskill Mountain House in a photo contributed by Tobe Carey and excerpts from "The Catskill Mountain House and the World Around."
There isn't much left of the once-grand Catskill Mountain House. The lavish resort hotel was perched on a... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, May. 26, 2011 - 2:23 pm
Michael Whaling is a polymath -- the Oneonta Daily Star describes him as a 'carpenter, painter, stone mason, environmentalist'. It is his work with stone that is described in his new book, 'The Garden Wall at Beekman Farm', an account of his painstaking... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 26, 2011 - 9:21 am
Above: Shandaken supervisor Rob Stanley opens the special meeting of the Shandaken Town Board last night. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
The temperature was high at the special meeting of the Shandaken Town Board last night as local residents packed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 24, 2011 - 1:10 pm
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record had a bang-up story yesterday about the embattled Esopus Creek.
According to a letter sent by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Esopus Creek has become too shallow for a Coast Guard... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 24, 2011 - 11:38 am
We heard from fans of WIOX 91.3 in Roxbury this morning that the community radio station had mysteriously disappeared from the airwaves last night. We put in a call to the station's office and talked to Glen Pedersen, the station's business manager, who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 23, 2011 - 3:57 pm
Photo taken at the former Winding Brook farm; from the Vishwa Dharma Foundation's website.
Devotees of a Manhattan-based Hindu group, Vishwa Dharma Mandalam, are transforming a run-down farmstead on Round Top in Cairo into an ashram for retreats and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 23, 2011 - 3:12 pm
Photo: Aerial view of Hanover Farms, taken from the Ulster County GIS web map. Town zoning code says farmstands in residentially-zoned areas can take up no more than 100 square feet.
A special meeting of the Shandaken Town Board to discuss re-zoning a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 20, 2011 - 12:23 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Department reports that Kingston resident Ruben J. Lindo was arrested yesterday on multiple charges stemming from his allegedly writing several bad checks.
Lindo is a former pro football player. According to a profile of him on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 19, 2011 - 1:13 pm
Comparative attendance records of New Paltz Village Board members, as complied by Brittany Turner, a.k.a. Legislative Barbie.
Brian Kimbiz, the only one of New Paltz's Village Trustees who was not up for relelection in this year's extremely crowded race,... Read more
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