Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2012 - 4:58 pm
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Via NY-Alert: All lanes of Route 9W in Esopus, near the intersection with Black Creek Road, are closed for utility work. According to the alert, the road will be closed for up to 6 hours.
An employee at Ulster County Emergency... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Sep. 17, 2012 - 9:59 pm
Above: The Seven21 Media Center in Kingston. Photo courtesy of Seven21.
A new collaboration between SUNY Ulster and a private Kingston media center will soon put top-notch video production techniques in the hands of the college's students, and the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012 - 2:43 pm
The Daily Freeman reports today that the Rural Ulster Preservation Company -- an affordable-housing agency known to most locals as RUPCO -- has been expanding its territory recently, and thus needs a new name:
O’Connor said the agency may wind up formally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012 - 12:13 am
Above: Photo by Flickr user Ann Douglas. Published under Creative Commons license.
If you're registered to a political party in New York State, you may be eligible to vote in a primary election on Thursday, September 13. Most towns in the Catskills region... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2012 - 1:10 pm
Photo by First Sergeant Perry Soule of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
As if anyone in America could forget: Today is the eleventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
In Ulster County, police and first responders held... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 7, 2012 - 11:19 am
There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
It's... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2012 - 11:12 am
Above: Brett Cohen's "fake celebrity" YouTube video, which has gotten over 4 million views to date.
Have you heard of the hotshot celebrity Brett Cohen?Maybe you’ve heard his newest single, or perhaps you might remember seeing him on the silver screen in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 - 2:38 pm
Above: A Times Herald-Record newscast about an accident this morning, in which a pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Kingston.
A Kingston man was struck by a train this morning around 8:30am, while walking on the CSX tracks near the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 12:34 pm
It's a year to the day since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene pummelled upstate New York. While a lot of commemorative events have already happened over the past week, the next few weeks will see more (including a picnic in Maplecrest that is underway... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 - 10:43 am
Today is August 28, the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene's arrival in the Catskills. To commemorate the anniversary of the flooding, we are publishing the Faces of the Flood Portrait Project, which tells stories of the flood through cinematic... Read more
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