Government
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 8:41 am
According to the Times-Union, Cobleskill mayor Mark Nadeau -- who was caught on tape using the N-word along with Town Supervisor Tom Murray -- resigned in front of a large crowd at a village meeting last night:
He said that he was resigning, in part, to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 9:36 am
The man who would be governor is visiting the Catskills whistle-stop style this week, with appearances in Catskill and Cobleskill on Saturday and in Monticello yesterday. Today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to appear at the New Paltz... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 11:32 am
At a Thursday public hearing, livestock-loving protesters won a reprieve from a proposed ordinance that would outlaw farm animals from Coxsackie, according to the Daily Mail:
The hue and cry prompted village officials to promise to take a second look at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 10:21 am
Even with the federal government pouring money into broadband internet infrastructure in rural areas, it's still hard for small towns to make sure they aren't forgotten. At the July 8 board meeting for the town of Jefferson, in Schoharie, the town's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 9:50 am
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Cabot Oil and Gas, one of the early players in the natural gas leasing effort in the area, has put its entire leased acreage in Sullivan County up for sale.
It’s also doing the same in neighboring Wayne... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 17, 2010 - 10:17 pm
That's what the AP says today:
The city last year signed contracts to either buy land or conservation easements on a record 11,309 acres of land around its upstate reservoirs, marking the second year-to-year gain of more than 30 percent in the 13-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 9:35 pm
The town officials who got caught on tape using racial slurs in Cobleskill are finding themselves at the center of a firestorm. On Monday, the Times Journal reports, there was quite a crowd at a Cobleskill town meeting:
With signs that read, “You Lied to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 10:54 am
Kingston's mayor really has a way with the verbiage. Back in 2004, a busted sewer main flooded houses and businesses along Wilbur Avenue with unspeakable horrors. Six years later, Sottile is pushing for the city settle with the owners, to the tune of $293... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 16, 2010 - 9:26 am
Gas isn't the only thing underground that has local landowners riled up. In Ulster, a zoning dispute over a potential limestone mine owned by Eddyville Corp. has reached the state Supreme Court, and homeowners near the site are urging the town to fight... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010 - 10:04 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection held three meetings this week on a proposed 10-year extension of their watershed land-buying program. At a meeting on Monday in Delaware County, one of the city's main targets for buying land over... Read more
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