Saugerties
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 9:49 am
From the Daily Freeman:
Argentine immigrant and Saugerties restaurant owner Emilio Maya has, for the second time, received a one-year stay of deportation, according to U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey.
Hinchey, D-Hurley, said in an e-mail on Tuesday that the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 2:02 pm
In the Freeman today: An update on the case of Emilio and Analia Maya, the Argentinian brother-sister duo behind the Tango Cafe in Saugerties, who are currently facing deportation next month for having illegally overstayed their visas.
For now, the Mayas... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 10:24 am
It's only January, but already summer plans to line the streets of local towns with gaudily-painted sculpture art are afoot.
Most towns will likely remain bound by tradition. In Catskill, as far as we know, the theme of the public scuptures will still be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 8:44 am
Photo of the Partition Street Wine Shop before the fire, via the shop's Facebook page.
The Saugerties Times has a boot-strapping story this week about how neighbors of the Partition Street Wine Shop in Saugerties rallied to help the store reopen after it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 4:41 pm
The New York Times' House Tour columns can be quite cheeky. In an interview with a Saugerties second-home owner Jeff Blum on Thursday, reporter Bethany Lyttle (who weekends in Roxbury herself), got a pretty fabulous quote:
In 2002 I was living in a loft... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 3:53 pm
Two Honduran immigrant brothers perished in a fire at a Saugerties riding club when their cigarettes ignited their wood-frame bungalow on Wednesday night, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports in today's paper.
While the police have released few... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 12:19 pm
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the story.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 4:03 pm
Last night, Saugerties' school board unanimously rejected a special tax deal for the developers of the Partition Street Project that would have given the local government significant money up-front but more uncertainty down the line. The Daily Freeman has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 1:03 pm
Site plan for Partition Street Project, from Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development.
The people of Saugerties are facing a dilemma: Does their government tax the controversial and still-to-be-built Partitiion Street Project development a lot now, via... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 - 5:41 pm
Hinchey caught on tape by YNN telling Freeman reporter William Kemble to "shut up."
Over the weekend, Daily Freeman correspondent William J. Kemble catapulted to fame among political wonks nationwide when he and Congressman Maurice Hinchey came close to... Read more
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