Ulster County
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 Matthew Perry on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 10:00 am
Video: Pitchfork Militia plays Jason's Upstairs Bar in Hudson, 2009.
Tonight's lineup at the Bearsville Theater: Too much rock for one band.
Fred Perry, owner of Reservoir Music Center in Shokan, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his store's opening... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 10:19 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the full story behind the panic-causing disappearance of Moische Dressner yesterday from his Jewish summer camp in Wawarsing. As it turns out, Dressner just didn't like camp, so he ran away. Bosch writes:
Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:18 pm
Tonight, Ann Epner, the program and community arts funding coordinator of the Roxbury Arts Group, announced on her Facebook page that she is leaving RAG to become the new executive director of the Pine Hill Community Center, which will lose its current... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:51 am
Moshe Dresdner/Moishe Dressner. Photo via the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
3pm update: Moshe Dresdner, or Moishe Dressner, has been found in a Staten Island mall, according to The Catskill Scoop:
The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office and Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:06 am
This Friday, the rock-soul-folk band Two Dark Birds is holding a benefit concert for the Woodland Playhouse preschool in Phoenicia. The band's front man, Steve Koester, emailed us about why the preschool, which his daughter has attended, it so great:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 1:06 pm
Photo of snowboards at Belleayre by Flickr user Steven Kreuser. Published under Creative Commons license.
Should the Belleayre Mountain ski center, currently run by the New York State Department of Conservation, be turned over to a quasi-private authority... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 9:23 am
Four people from Ulster County died in a boating accident on the Hudson River yesterday, and two more people barely escaped. The accident was horrific enough to make the papers across the state.
News accounts report that six people were riding in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Astute WP reader Laurie McIntosh alerted us to a fun fact today: In the past week, National Public Radio has been crawling with Catskillians.
Case in point: David Krajicek, front man of Blues Maneuver, a Catskills band that features a horn section to die... Read more
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