Government
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 3:35 pm
In his proposal for the 2012 - 2013 New York State budget, released today, Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear that he would like to transfer the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center to the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) at the close... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 - 12:53 pm
Image: The Pine Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant’s Sewer Collection System Sevice Area along Route 28. An extension to 20 additional properties, which was voted into law by the Shandaken town board last week, is indicated in orange on the map.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 - 8:56 pm
Above: A photo set posted recently on Flickr by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has sent a team to Prattsville to help prepare a site for temporary housing under the guidance of FEMA.
Photos taken on site in Prattsville on January 10, 2012. For... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012 - 9:39 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that the PTA of Bennett Elementary School, one of three in the Onteora district, is circulating petitions calling on the school board to reject the only reconfiguration plan on the table that would allow Phoenicia Elementary to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 8:09 pm
A dying deer found last month in Thurman, a town in Warren County, has biologists at the state Department of Environmental Conservation doing some detective work to see if the animal's infection is a symptom of a larger problem.
The agency is asking the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:38 am
Yesterday, Tuesday January 10, the Shandaken Police and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation cited 53-year-old Gerasimos Kokosis and 60-year-old Alexandros Bardis for burning a large amount of demolition debris at the site of the former... Read more
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
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