Greene County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Today at 1pm we aired our second installment of the Watershed Post Half-Hour News Hour, our 30-minute radio news show, on WIOX 91.3 FM in Roxbury. You can listen to today's show below. (Our debut show aired in July -- you can listen to it here.)
We talked... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 9:39 am
Three businessmen, including the owner of a local trucking business, were arrested recently on charges that they shipped ash timber out of Greene County, where the wood is under a quarantine because the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been found... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 9:36 am
You should take that headline literally. Thanks to a water main break in the village of Catskill, the Catskill Community Center's "Summer Fun Programming" has been cancelled today, according to its website:
URGENT! NO SUMMER REC OR SUMMER FUN TODAY... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 10:07 pm
Looks like the Ulster Savings Bank has finally managed to unload the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill for a modest $2.4 million. (That's $1.4 million less than what the bank was owed, when they foreclosed on the Route 32 property last April.)
But the identities... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:06 am
Photo by Flickr user Alina Sofia.
It's a renaissance weekend for theaters in the Catskills. At the Woodstock Playhouse, the first summer stock season on the safe side of foreclosure continues. In Tannersville, the expansion and renovation of The Orpheum... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 9:59 am
Above: A graph from yesterday's IDA report showing IDA tax breaks and job growth and loss by county. Greene County, in dark green, is picked out for having job loss despite giving out large IDA tax breaks.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 8:54 am
Quick: Where is Bedell, NY?
According to the Historical Society for the Town of Middletown's Tin Horn blog, there used to be an enormous sign with letters 20-feet high answering that question for strangers approaching the intersection of Little Red Kill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 7, 2011 - 3:19 pm
One of the biggest mountain biking events in the world will be happening in Greene County this weekend: The 2011 Mountain Bike UCI World Cup. The most formidable bikers from around the globe will gather at Windham Mountain Saturday and Sunday to jockey... Read more
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