Boiceville
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 11:17 am
Nadya Hall, in pink, plays Liesl, and Edith Lerner, in white, plays Maria, in the Onteora Central School's production of The Sound of Music. J'nae Gibbs (left) and Jacquelyn Garraffa (right) play the two nuns.
This Thursday, the halls of Onteora Middle... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 4:35 pm
Martha Frankel, a Boiceville-based writer, artist and provocateur, shared some intimate memories of the late Elizabeth Taylor with the Daily Freeman this week. Frankel recalls that she met Taylor while strenuously trying not to offend her by making eye... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 4:08 pm
Tonight at 6:30, parents, teachers, and community members are gathering at Onteora High School to watch and discuss "Race to Nowhere," a provocative recent documentary about overachievement and the culture of American education. From a new blog called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:40 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent out a press release today announcing that three stands of trees on three different parcels of city-owned upstate land will be the focus of a new forest management program.
The three sites are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 2:25 pm
This just in from the CWC: Boiceville's wastewater treatment plant project, a feat of engineering two years in the making, is finished. The plant went online last summer, and on January 7, the last hookup pipe connecting the new plant to a Boiceville home... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 9:49 am
UPDATE 10:24pm: Local papers reported this afternoon that two Kingston 16-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the shooting, Eban Woullard and Brandon Jones. Here's the Times-Herald Record story; here's the Freeman's.
UPDATED 9:54am: A man was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:45 pm
A tractor-trailer killed 83-year-old Vera Un and 86-year-old George Un of Shandaken as they stopped on Rte. 28 to make a left turn in Boiceville this afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 59-year-old William... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:35 pm
For the second time in a month, there's been a fatal car accident on Rte. 28 near De Silva Rd. in Boiceville, in the town of Olive.
This afternoon, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record, one person was killed on that stretch of road... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 3:29 pm
The Catskill Watershed Corporation announced several funding decisions: a $255,000 loan for the Maverick Health Clinic in Phoenicia to relocate to Boiceville, and $36,493 in reimbursement for a Greene County motel's septic system. Press release below.
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