Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 - 10:39 am
"The Catskills: Always In Season."
Get ready to see it on bumper stickers, billboards, ad campaigns, and anything else a bunch of marketers can think of. That's the slogan that got Arkville's Jenn Nolan $1,500 from the Catskill Park Resource Foundation on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 - 11:22 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that 80-year-old Dorothea Denman, former owner of the Olivebridge Florist, was struck by a car and killed Friday afternoon on Route 28 in Olive, near her home at 9 Sunkist Lane.
From the Freeman's story:
The accident, which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein at the county Department of Public Works substation in New Paltz, flanked by county legislators Ken Wishnick and Hector Rodriguez. Photo courtesy of Hein's office.
Today, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein signed... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 - 7:45 pm
FARMER’S MARKET COUPONSThursday, August 30, 201210 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
The Ulster County Office for the Agingwill be distributing to eligible seniorsFarmer’s Market coupons at theSHARP Committee
98 Main Street, Phoenicia. Eligibility is determined by two... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 - 1:18 pm
Dear Editor,
On Sunday, July 15 John Stobaeus e-mailed me, "Do you know about the mini-folk fest in Phoenicia today at the Parish House? They'll be celebrating the Roots of Folk," so I walked over to see. It was a reunion of Camp Woodland, a summer camp... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 - 12:42 pm
Above: Photo of emerald ash borer taken at the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan. Source: insectimages.org.
The march of the invasive emerald ash borer across the Catskills continues. Today, the state... Read more
By ShandakenSuper on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 - 10:53 am
Shandaken Day is a free annual event for the family providing Live Music, Arts and Crafts Booths, Kids Games and great Catskill Mountain Fare. This year's event is being hosted by the Hamlet of Pine Hill on Main Street from 10am until 6pm. This year's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 12:39 pm
This week's must-read story for upstate New York: An editorial by Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, titled "End of the anti-frack world is near." In it, LeBrun claims that a gubernatorial plan to greenlight hydraulic fracturing by the time the leaves... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 11:32 am
Above: “The Huckleberry Brook Dancing Bear,” by David Barry, winner of the 2011 Watershed Post’s “Best-Kept Secret in the Catskills” photo contest. Submit your photo to the 2012 "Great Outdoors Experience" photo contest and win a dinner at Peekamoose.
To... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 - 5:11 pm
A six-year tax battle between Shandaken and its largest landowners may have ended on July 20 when a jury ruled in favor of the town. However, despite their latest defeat, the landowners have not thrown in the towel just yet.
The group of landowners is... Read more
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