Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2011 - 8:58 am
Above: "Downhill," a documentary by Jason Latorre of I Said Cut Productions about the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.
News broke last week that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is poised to hand the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center over... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 6, 2011 - 8:13 pm
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that the disintegrating Nevele Grande, once the pride and joy of the Borscht Belt, has just had its tax assessment cut by two-thirds:
The 433-room hotel had been valued at $15 million, but town assessor Mike... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Monday, Jun. 6, 2011 - 11:16 am
With warmer weather prevalent during the daytime hours and cooler nights following them the propensity for thunderstorms to develop is high this time of year. Our topography presents situations where someone could be caught off guard by rapidly changing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 3:12 pm
A delivery truck headed east on Route 28 in Phoenicia yesterday afternoon caused a collision with a pickup truck driven by a local teenager, totaling the pickup and injuring its occupants. A press release from the Shandaken Police Department:
The Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 2:12 pm
Memorial Day weekend at the Frost Valley Farm Camp. Photos by Larson Harley. Used with permission.
Photographer Larson Harley spent Memorial Day weekend at the Frost Valley YMCA's Farm Camp, where he was briefly seduced by a vision of living in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 4:11 pm
Video clip about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers by filmmaker Carole Hart, maker of the documentary film For The Next Seven Generations.
In October of 2004, thirteen elders from indigenous cultures scattered around the world... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 3:59 pm
A bulls-eye rash characteristic of Lyme Disease. Photo by Hannah Garrison via Wikimedia Commons.
The Greene County Legislature's education committee got an earful about the dangers of Lyme Disease yesterday from a Cornell educator who is convinced that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 11:33 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River at Hawk's Nest, near the spot where a rafter drowned on Saturday. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Three people drowned in local waterways over the Memorial Day weekend.
On Monday, two fishermen lost their footing in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 6:04 pm
This weekend brings musical fairytales to the Shandaken Theatrical Society -- but don't expect a sweet little bedtime story. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's dark, witty remix of familiar fables, directed by STS's own Amy Wallace, opens this Friday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 11:16 am
There's an email going around Shandaken circles that links to this video. It does put Shandaken's farmstand troubles in perspective.
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