Government
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 - 3:37 pm
In light of the deep staffing cuts planned for Belleayre Mountain, the idea of an authority to manage the ski center -- much like the one that governs Whiteface and Gore Mountain, New York's other state-run ski centers -- is once again getting some... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 10:37 am
The town of Ellenville in Ulster County. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg.
Earlier this month, the Daily Yonder, the blog about rural issues, published an interview with three experts on small towns: Bart Finzel, Jane Leonard, and Dave Engstrom. While... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 9:36 am
An early morning fire at a house in Neversink turned into a pot bust, the State Police report.
When emergency responders arrived at the home around 3am on Wednesday morning, they allegedly found six scorched marijuana plants and five pounds of processed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Pine Hill resident Richard Treitner. Contributed photo.
Richard Treitner, an artist, poet, and self-described shaman who lives in the small hamlet of Pine Hill on the western edge of Ulster County, came home from Thanksgiving this year to find that his... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Back in October, Mike Bemis was relieved of his job leading Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency without much of an official explanation. (Unofficially, thanks to an evesdropping Daily Freeman reporter, a few of the complaints made against Bemis came... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 6:04 pm
The Times Herald-Record is reporting that a 59-year-old man who was living in a nursing home in Swan Lake was found dead outside on Sunday morning:
The frozen body of a man who was a resident of the New Swan Lake Adult Home was found dead early Sunday... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 10:22 am
Remember that guy who stole the stuffed animal from the Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster? After the State Police blasted a photo of him out to the media, he turned himself in, the Daily Freeman reports.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 10:14 am
Snow falling in Roxbury, NY this morning. Via WIOX'a Facebook page.
For once, it looks like we got off easy with the weather in the Catskills. While we've gotten about a foot of snow since yesterday, that looks pretty good compared to 20 inches in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 - 11:05 am
Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 10:23 am
Ulster County executive Mike Hein visited Phoenicia's Main Street yesterday afternoon, to discuss the county's response to the village's increasingly dire flood problems. Hein, who promised the county's support for the town of Shandaken in an application... Read more
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