Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 10:21 am
New Paltz's famous mayor -- the first Green Party mayor in New York State, and the mayor who made national headlines in 2004 for marrying 25 gay couples in a public ceremony -- is back in office.
West served as mayor from 2003 to 2007, then lost a bid for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 7:51 pm
Brace yourself for more farmstand drama: The Shandaken Town Board has voted 3 to 2 to hold a special meeting, on May 24 at 6pm, to discuss re-zoning a stretch of Route 28 in Mt. Tremper to permit more commercial activity. [Update: The date of the meeting... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 3:31 pm
Two of three women who sued the city of Kingston for sexual harassment have won their cases, according to the Daily Freeman, which has been following the federal trial all week:
The jury today ruled the city and former Public Works Superintendent Steve... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 9:04 am
Today is village election day in New Paltz, and the many candidates are vying for mayor and village trustee amid the kind of goofiness that often happens in a college town. The New Paltz Gadfly, who urges everyone to vote today from noon to 9pm at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 10:27 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has been a busy bee lately. On Friday, it announced that it is opening 6,600 acres of city-owned land for recreational use, and on Saturday, Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record wrote an article... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 8:12 pm
Chalk it up to stubborn environmentalists, the rotten economy, or maybe both: A planned development project in New Paltz that just a couple of years ago was drawing hundreds of irate citizens to packed town meetings is apparently dead. An eagle-eyed... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 10:30 am
From the Onteora High School webpage:
This community forum will provide the public with accurate, timely information about sex offenders. The forum will dispel myths about sex offenders and advise community members on how to better protect their... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 8:27 am
Radar image of severe thunderstorms over eastern New York and Pennsylvania at 8:20am. Via the National Weather Service, Binghamton station.
It was a wild weather night for much of the Catskills region. Here in Andes, wind and rain reached a fever pitch... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 10:52 am
Watershed Post reader Alexandra Marvar took this photo of a misty evening over the Sawkill Creek in Woodstock earlier this week. (The Sawkill looks so peaceful: hard to believe just over a month ago it looked like this.)
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 10:42 am
The Esopus fire department's impressive home in Ulster County. Photo via the Esopus Fire Department's website.
On Sunday, the Times Union dared to ask a troublemaking question in an editorial: In this era of budget-slashing, should we be cutting back on... Read more
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