Government
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Last Friday, an Ulster County Sheriff's deputy reportedly plucked 15-month-old Sarah Schmidt from death.
The baby's parents, Alexander and Andrea, called 911 when Sarah stopped breathing, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 10:17 am
A pagan group that wants the town of Catskill to recognize it as a religious organization may lose its Palenville home before the end of the year.
The Maetreum of Cybele, a pagan community that owns the former Central House hotel on Rte. 23A, has been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:40 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent out a press release today announcing that three stands of trees on three different parcels of city-owned upstate land will be the focus of a new forest management program.
The three sites are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 12:06 pm
For the nine million people who drink New York City water, the city buying a few thousand acres of upstate land each year hardly registers as news. But in the towns whose fields and forests make up New York City's million-acre Catskill/Delaware watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 9:34 am
The Croton Reservoir: Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Times had a neat article yesterday about the history of the New York Public Library building, which stands on what once was the Croton Reservoir.
The reservoir opened for business in 1842 as the city's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 3:07 pm
The AP is reporting that icing problems are forcing Central Hudson to turn of its natural gas service to hundreds of customers in Ulster County for several days, just in time for a very cold snap.
The Ulster County Red Cross is opening an overnight... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 2:27 pm
The Mountain Eagle had coverage today of last Thursday's Board of Education meeting in Stamford, which reportedly became an impromptu protest of a popular music teacher's firing from Stamford Central School.
Pamela West-FinkleAccording to the article,... Read more
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 Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 8:57 am
We're getting a short break this morning, but the snow will be back tonight, the National Weather Service warns this morning. It has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Sullivan County and Ulster County starting this evening. For Ulster County:
.TONIGHT... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 10:13 am
Today's New York Post lambastes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- one of the most powerful figures in New York State politics -- for his law firm's making money off lawsuits against gas-drilling companies in other states, while leading the charge against... Read more
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