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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 11:58 am
Should Ulster County spend over $700,000 on New York City subway ads, or on commercials on "Good Morning America?" High-falutin' consultants favor the first option, while local businesspeople favor the second, according to the Times Herald-Record, which... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 8:41 pm
That's the kind of candid rhetoric I like from a local restaurant:
Well…. I am the new owner and operator of the Munson Diner, let me just say… none of the same old crap… only quality food at a fair price…. I opened on the morning of the 22nd…No previous... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 7:10 pm
JImmy Fallon, who hails from Saugerties, gets to be the face of the Emmys. Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 12:57 pm
That's the question for Allan Wikman, a Kingston resident who is going to spend 15 days in jail for refusing to budge during a January meeting of the Ulster County Legislature. Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 12:02 pm
Albany hiker DSettahr spent the weekend hiking up Windham High Peak, and he tells the Views from the Top forum that already, the flies are biting:
We had the lean-to to ourselves on Saturday night. We saw and heard some bugs during the evening Friday and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 11:40 am
No, not pigs: motorcycles. Two Wheels to Anywhere, a YouTube "motorcycle touring / reality travel show," just dedicated several of its episodes to the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association dual sport rally, which was staged at Hunter Mountain last fall. In... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 2:16 pm
An editorial in the PoJo states what is becoming painfully obvious:
The Catskills region needs an economic resurgence, but it's clear waiting for a string of casinos to be built is not the answer and never was.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 1:59 pm
State Senator Malcolm Smith in a candid moment at the Democratic Rural Conference:
“With the Democrats in control of the State Senate, we are going to draw the lines so that Republicans will be in oblivion in the state of New York for the next 20 years... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 1:03 pm
...really, who can you trust? The Albany Times Union blew the bottom out of Ward B. Stone's reputation yesterday with an article that chronicles the celebrated scientist's dark side:
What is less known about the 71-year-old scientist at the state's... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 12:54 pm
A Woodstock yard abloom in bugleweed. (We think.) Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjs76/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Crews are out repaving the shoulders of 28 between the Woodstock turnoff and the town of Olive. The Catskills Cyclist is thrilled:
If you've ever driven this length of road you would have to agree that the shoulders were downright treacherous. If you... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 11:37 am
We're a little late on this one, but that's because we had no idea that New York's horse-betting industry had such an innovative way of bringing off-track betting to customers who can't make it to the casino.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 11:34 am
The Albany Project has an account of the recent New York State Democratic Rural Conference on Saturday. It's weirdly fixated on describing the contents of the buffet table, but there's some meat: Writer Adama Brown critiques the AG candidates' plans for... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:36 pm
It's May Day, otherwise known as Beltane, which good students of the Goddess know means it's time to have one hell of a party.
Mike Madsen is celebrating Beltane on his blog, the Kingston Progressive:
With a high density of immigrants from Ireland and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Not bad for a tiny little town that wants to revitalize its movie theater. From an email that the Collective sent out this morning:
We did it! Out of 362 projects across the United States competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant, the Rosendale... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 2:04 pm
In the Wall Street Journal today: a sharp look at the process of cementing oil wells in offshore drilling operations. Some experts think that faulty cementing could be behind the recent BP disaster that killed 11 and is spilling 5,000 barrels of oil a day... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Local officials in Greene County are mounting an effort to get the DEC to reconsider their decision to close the Devil's Tombstone campground. From the Windham Journal:
The campground, located amidst Route 214’s Stony Clove, has been slated for closure... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:48 pm
Normally the month of April, or “mud season,” as it is affectionately known, is relatively quiet in the high peaks region. The ski centers close down, many of the restaurant owners and innkeepers shut their doors for a few weeks to seek out warmer and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 7:16 pm
Sustainable Esopus dishes up some recent data from the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, and concludes that Esopus's dismal recycling rate (18.7 percent, compared to a 40.7 percent recycling rate across the county) is costing it serious taxpayer... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:54 pm
This week, the Obama administration issued a 47-page report on the American rural economy, with recommendations for policies aimed at giving a boost to small business, infrastructure, agriculture and overall quality of life in rural areas. The Daily... Read more
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