Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 3:02 pm
Design of the proposed Woodstock Commons housing project. Image from the RUPCO website.
The second of two lawsuits filed against a planned Woodstock housing project has been dismissed, according to the Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman.
Once again... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 10:21 am
Above: Former Shandaken town supervisor Peter DiSclafani trades barbs wtih Councilman Jack Jordan and current supervisor Rob Stanley at Monday's town meeting. Video by Julia Reischel.
A dispute over a misguided $2,500 check cashed by the Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 8:40 am
To add to the recent spate of drownings in the Catskills region, Ulster County police are reporting that a man drowned last night in the Rondout Creek in High Falls, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record:
The Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2011 - 1:43 pm
From left to right: James Rueger, representative from Shandaken, Pine Hill Community Center (holding small round sign); Robert Selkowitz, Town of Olive (holding rectangular sign); Diane Galusha, Catskill Watershed Corporation; Doris Bartlett, Town of... Read more
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 Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 8:54 am
Above: Alleged serial hiking trail car burglars Donna A. Nollner and Billy D. Ganoe Jr. Photo provided by the New York State Police.
A man and a woman who allegedly specialize in robbing empty vehicles parked next to Catskills hiking trails have been... Read more
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