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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:27 am
Editor's note: The Onteora Central School District held a meeting last night in Boiceville at which Superintendent Phyllis Spiegel McGill said that she prefers the "bookend" plan, according to an article in the Daily Freeman. -- Julia Reischel
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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 11:58 am
Above: The New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage Power Project in the town of Blenheim in Schoharie County. Photo via the New York Power Authority's website.
At the year's first meeting of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors last... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 6:17 pm
The Olive Town Board meets at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 10 for its regular monthly meeting. Here's the agenda:
Olive Town Meeting Agenda: January 10th
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 2:44 pm
While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud.
Yesterday, Eisel, who... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 1:15 pm
This map from the New York state education department depicts areas that are not served by public libraries. Many communities in Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties remain underserved.
With roof trusses going up this week,... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Shandaken Town Board. Left to right: Town Clerk Joyce Grant (D), Councilman Doris Bartlett (D), Councilman Alfie Higley Jr. (R), Supervisor Rob Stanley (R), Councilman Jack Jordan (R), and Councilman and Deputy Supervisor Vincent Bernstein (R). Photo by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 3:43 pm
Above: A satellite image of the turbid lower Esopus spilling into the Hudson River. From Google Maps.
The following letter, from New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) deputy commissioner Paul Rush, lays out the agency's reasoning... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address, delivered from Albany earlier this afternoon:
Watch live streaming video from newyorkstateofficeofthegovernor at livestream.com
A copy of the speech was passed out to attendees in advance. Cuomo went off-... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 11:38 am
Lexington's new town council, left to right: John Berger, Dixie Baldrey (supervisor), William Pushman, Jo Ellen Schermerhorn, Lynn Byrne. Photo by Walter Severini.
Lexington, a small Greene County town that was the locus of some very strange political... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 7:05 pm
The leadership of the flood-ravaged Greene County town of Prattsville has been in limbo since November, when Republican Alan Huggins won the supervisor's race as a write-in candidate, then promptly resigned.
But last night, the Prattsville town board re-... Read more
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