Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 5:47 pm
All hands were on deck at the Kingston Fire Department last night, as a fire raged at the former St. Peter's Elementary School building on Adams Street. No one was hurt.
The Daily Freeman has video.
As does the Times Herald-Record.
Former alderman Richard... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 9:48 am
The New York State Police are conducting a manhunt for a grinch with a penchant for plaid and fingerless gloves who pinched a stuffed animal from a Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster last month. That's his photo above, taken by surveilance cameras at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Videographer and former Phoenicia Times columnist Dakota Lane is celebrating the holidays by going from business to business in Shokan, Olive, Phoenicia and Woodstock asking people to divulge their wish lists for the season. The result is a sweet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 1:42 pm
On Friday, town and village officials from municipalities along the lower Esopus, as well as the state Department of Environmental Conservation, met with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to talk about muddy water. Specifically, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 7:35 pm
In the New York Daily News today: A glowing profile of Kingston's emerging high-tech microbusiness community, complete with photos of swank lofts, breathless real estate price quotes, and paeans to the city's thriving art scene. (Oh yes. They even used... 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 Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Photographer Rusty Tagliareni is coming out with a book, he writes on LiveJournal, that will include some photographs of abandoned Catskills resorts. Yesterday, he posted a some images of one of the resorts, along with some tantalizing commentary:
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 9:59 am
The Daily Freeman's William Kemble reports that officials from towns along the muddy banks of the lower Esopus are meeting with the state DEC today, to hammer out talking points for another meeting to be held Friday with the New York City DEP.
The topic?... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 9:54 am
Daily Freeman correspondent Jay Braman Jr. reports that after this season's back-to-back floods in Phoenicia, plans to prevent the Esopus from flooding is finally getting some traction:
State Sen. John Bonacic discussed flooding problems on Tuesday with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Another arrest has been made in the Case of the Food Stamp Millionaires: 71-year old Anup Virk, the father of the man who owns the convenience store at the center of an alleged million-dollar scheme to buy food stamps from their customers at half price,... Read more
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