Ulster County
By Jason Dole on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 - 11:24 am
Photo: An upstate DEP crew works to pump out Manhattan's Battery Underpass, which was submerged under 12 feet of Sandy floodwaters at the height of the storm surge. Photo dated Nov. 1, courtesy of NYC DEP.
Since Sandy made landfall, local firefighters,... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Editor's note: This column ran in the Watershed Post on July 8, 2011. It's still good advice, and we're resurrecting it, in light of a spate of carbon monoxide poisonings and deaths around the region. Earlier this week, two Shokan residents were found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 - 12:45 pm
Above: A close-up shot of the lion figurehead at the bow of the Half Moon, a replica of the ship Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name in 1609. Photo by Katy Silberger; published under Creative Commons license.
In the Times Union today: A... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 5:39 pm
Above: A pile of surplus donated clothing abandoned in a parking lot in Staten Island one week after Hurricane Sandy. Source: NY1's November 5 report, "Staten Island Donation Centers Taking In More Than They Can Give Out."
In the wake of a disaster like... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 12:26 pm
Above: Detail from a National Weather Service weather forecast map issued at 3:53 am today. Source: NWS Binghamton website.
Forecasters are tracking a nor'easter that looks likely to dump snow and sleet across a wide swath of the northeastern U.S.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 10:48 am
The votes are in -- and although a few races still hang in the balance, most of the big contests were settled decisively.
Incumbents across the region mostly fared well. Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand trounced Republican challenger Wendy Long... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 4:45 pm
Local developer Dean Gitter is selling his stake in Shandaken's Emerson Hotel to co-owner Emily Fisher.
In a press release issued Tuesday by the Emerson, Gitter said that the sale would allow him to focus on building the Belleayre Resort:
“Emily and I... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 4:09 pm
Mahwah Patch reported on Sunday that two men from Ulster County -- 41-year-old Richard Rothe of Saugerties and 22-year-old Andrew Eberhart of West Shokan -- were arrested over the weekend in Mahwah, New Jersey.
The two were found with 200 gallons of gas,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 4:01 pm
For weeks, the Ulster County Department of Public Works has been working on a bridge on County Road 45/Wittenberg Road in Woodstock, subjecting residents in the area to a lengthy detour.
The Town of Woodstock announced Tuesday that the road had been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 3:01 pm
Shokan residents James and Eva Stapleford were found dead in their Black Road home on Monday night by a Town of Olive police officer, after their daughter in Pennsylvania called Ulster County police to check on her parents.
According to an announcement... Read more
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