Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:32 am
*Note: This post's been updated (and the headline changed as well). Read the whole thing to hear the DEP's response to accusations that they're a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of driftwood-hoarders. Maybe there's a happy ending to this sad little story after all... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 8:50 am
Peter Manning, the Regional Planner for the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, has sent us some more details on those Smart Growth grants that were announced yesterday. (He stresses that the plans for the money, which were first drafted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 3:49 pm
"A November Brown Catskills," by Dennis Schvejda. Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group.
The Catskills Center for Conservation and Development has good news for Andes, Olive, Shandaken, Arkville, Margaretville, Middletown, Fleischmanns, and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 12:59 pm
Brooklyn Bridge in the snow, by Randy Lemoine. Photo via Flickr, some rights reserved.
Michele Forsten, the director of communications for New York City College of Technology/CUNY, bought a condo in Ulster County in order to get away from the big city.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:05 am
Local purveyor of scrumptiosity Shandaken Bake had Village Voice writer Rebecca Marx swooning yesterday over a tasty tidbit she picked up at the New Amsterdam Market. The baked good in question? An ordinary-looking slice of maple parsnip bread.
If you've... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 - 3:50 pm
A close-up photograph of a crack inside the Delaware Aqueduct under the hamlet of Roseton in Ulster County. Photo provided by the NYC DEP.
On Friday, the DEP told the world that it is planning an enormous public works project to repair the leaking... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 9:02 pm
A rendering of the DEP's plans for a three-mile bypass to the Delaware Aqueduct. Image provided by NYC DEP.
Tonight, New York City Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway told a group of Wawarsing residents that their chronically-... 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 Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 10:03 am
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports the latest in Wawarsing's years-long saga with the leaky Delaware Aqueduct. Tonight, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's commissioner, Cas Holloway, will meet face-to-face with the town's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:15 pm
The Daily Freeman has been publishing some incredible stories about an ongoing effort to bust participants in a really simple scam: According to police, a Midtown gas station accepted food stamp cards in exchange for half their value in cash, which... Read more
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