Greene County

By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 12:14 pm
The town of Catskill has given Wal-Mart a million-dollar reduction on how much its Catskill store is worth, which will help the global corporation lower its town and county taxes by a bundle this year, according to the Daily Mail. Catskill's reasoning? It... Read more
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 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 WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:40 pm
Call it builder's remorse. Many years ago, the town of Ashland hopelessly contaminated its underground water supply, and the town's few hundred residents have been paying the price ever since. At last, relief is in sight, though it's going to be expensive... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 8:30 pm
First the farmer's market got moved downtown. Now the village elders are moving the fireworks, too. Quoth village board president Vincent Seeley in the Freeman: “There is a potential public safety issue with cramming upwards of 3,000 people down at the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:03 am
After a year of operating out of a school building a few blocks away, the Greene County Courthouse in Catskill is finally re-opened for business, reports the Daily Mail.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Catskill High School and Middle School went on lockdown on Thursday after the superintendent heard what she thought was a gunshot. Turns out it was actually a tree limb crashing, she later told the Daily Freeman: The schools immediately went into lock-out... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 2:05 pm
Photo of a Delaware County sunset by Catskill05, via Flick. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catskill05/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 Ah, Earth Day, one of the most nebulous holidays of the year. Celebrations and commemorations are underway, and it seems like pretty much... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:49 pm
So sayeth Dick May in his latest Greene County roundup: Paganism evidently is alive and growing in GreeneLand. It is practiced with special fervor in Palenville, in a three-acre grove and a venerable 18-bedroom former inn (Central House) that houses the... Read more

Pages

Subscribe to Greene County