Government
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 19, 2010 - 8:26 am
Despite much controversy over school budgets this year -- prompting a massive campaign by the state teachers' union -- yesterday's school election results aren't too revolutionary. (See the Daily Freeman's results chart here, and the Times Herald-Record's... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 10:12 am
This may be the most contentious school budget year in recent memory for many districts around the Catskills region. Today's the day for voting on school budgets and school board members, across the state. Here are a few links for more information on... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 9:44 am
Even in sleepy Greene County, a lot has changed since 1997 -- the last time the county's administrative manual got an update. Yesterday, county legislators began to tackle the sticky question of what their social-networking policy should look like, the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 16, 2010 - 11:03 pm
Maybe he would have spent a few years and $95 million getting rid of a stop light in Parksville. Times Herald-Record editor Barry White is sick of the endless construction:
How do you get rid of a light and grade crossing in a hamlet that has long... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 13, 2010 - 12:37 pm
If you're a 16-year-old, you might want to avoid Truman's Bar in the week hours of the night. If you don't, you might end up with "serious cuts to the face." Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:40 pm
Fed up with a plague of feral cats in his neighborhood, Robert Senor, Democrat of Ward 8, wants to limit the number of cats per house in Kingston, the Freeman reports.
The alderman envisions a limit of between three and five cats, and his legislation... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:30 pm
The Catskills Cyclist reports that Ulster County is looking for input on its 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan. Naturally, he's hoping bicycles get mentioned in it:
The survey is pretty cool. It allows you to check boxes for Bike/Ped issues. One... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Yesterday, with much fanfare, the late Board of Water Supply police officer John J. Quinlan was added to the State of New York Police Officers Memorial in Albany (and also the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.) He is the "... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:39 am
Policy watchdog Environmental Advocates of New York has flunked state senators John Bonacic and Bill Larkin on environmental issues, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports. It's because they both voted to kill a bill that would've allowed people in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:13 am
Twenty-three Ulster County centenarians were feted by the Ulster County Office of Aging last Friday. Seems like a lot of venerable aged folks for one county, doesn't it? Apparently, whiskey has something to do with it, according to YNN Hudson Valley:
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