Ulster County
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 Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 12:19 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that St. Cabrini -- a home for troubled girls in Esopus, founded in 1890 by St. Frances Cabrini's Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- is looking to build something new on its 600-acre, $4.2 million Hudson waterfront... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 5:02 pm
Image: Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Today on Economix, the New York Times's economics blog, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser stakes out a controversial proposition -- controversial, that is, among non-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 10:44 am
Jessica Vecchione shoots videos for the ARC of Delaware County, which provides services and education to people with disabilities. Her latest movie is a sweet look at how Belleayre Mountain hosted some of the ARC's students on the slopes this winter. Best... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 9:55 am
Maybe you should wait a few hours. According to 511NY.org, there have been nine accidents on the Thruway today. Look out especially for these two:
NYS Thruway Authority CAD: accident on I-87 - NYS Thruway northbound between Exit 20 (I-87) - Saugerties (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Daniel Torres speaking at an anti-gas-drilling rally in New Paltz last June. Photo by Julia Reischel
Twenty-year-old Daniel Torres, who as a member of the New Paltz Board of Education is the youngest person ever elected in the town, has posted a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Hudson Valley Business posted a story this week about New Paltz's Unison Arts Center, which is struggling to survive in a moribund economy and might soon face the budget knives under new Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Unison, which has been around since the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 9:44 am
An incident on Wednesday which ended with three Lanes arrested on various snowplow- and baseball-bat-related charges has yielded a few more arrests. From the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 3:17 pm
Arrested, of course.
This truly epic tale of familial feuding just came in over the transom, from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. We're a little in awe of the huevos required to assault your opponent's vehicle in the parking lot of the police station... 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
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