Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 - 9:53 am
The Woodland Valley View alerts us that there's a new webcam in Shandaken, thanks to a local with a Weather Underground page and a bit of hardware in his backyard.
News flash: It's drippy out there. Shandaken's newest data point joins webcams across the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
The State Police are reporting that a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who walked into the woods alone on Monday has been found dead today in a 500-acre area off of Anbu Rd. in the town of Shandaken. There are no details yet about how Christopher Brennan died... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 11:49 am
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:26 pm
Bravo to Ulster County -- it has a live election tally rolling on their website for all races that is astoundingly easy to use. (At the moment, John Bonacic is leading David Sager in one of the more prominent races.)
The Times Herald-Record is impressed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Last Thursday, the Central Catskills Collaborative re-christened the stretch of Route 28 that runs between Hurley and Andes as the "Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway."
The re-naming is part of the lengthy process of getting the road special recognition as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Town of Ulster supervisor James Quigley made a tactical error when he decided to call political blogger Jeremy Blaber last weekend. Quigley, who was upset about a post Blaber had written, was furious when he got Blaber's voicemail, and decided to let it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:45 am
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 5:30 pm
This week, the Daily Freeman caught up with the still-in-the-works Crossroads Resort development and its backer, Dean Gitter, who told the paper that rumors of the project's demise have been greatly exaggerated:
“It has been a while since we communicated... Read more
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