Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011 - 10:00 am
It was too gray and misty yesterday to have a real sunset, but the trees against a misty sky along the Esopus in Shandaken had their own beauty. Photo by Julia Reischel.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 - 4:44 pm
Above: A memento left on the remains of a tree on Wall Street, cut down recently as part of Kingston's controversial "Pike Plan" to restore the 1970s-era wooden canopies over the sidewalks of the uptown Stockade district. Photo by local musician (and O+... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 - 4:01 pm
Revelers at the Rock N Roll Resort festival last weekend in Kerhonkson. Photo via the Rock N Roll Resort Facebook page.
To stay in the black, a Borscht Belt resort needs to branch out into tie dye and bongs, according to the Times Herald-Record, which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 9:55 pm
Detail of an interactive map from the New York Times, showing change of population between the 2000 and 2010 Census. According to the Census Bureau, a census tract including most of Saugerties (the darker brown area at center) lost 13.7 percent of its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 1:46 pm
We just received this message from the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Sheriff Paul J. Van Blarcum reports, with deep sadness and regret, the untimely passing of Ulster County Sheriff's Office member Detective Sergeant Drue Lynch, age 47 of Plattekill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 2, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Tomorrow, Sarah Lee Guthrie (yes, of those Guthries) and her husband and musical partner Johnny Irion are performing at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia. The little train station should be a nice intimate backdrop for their sound: a rich,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 9:52 pm
This just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The agency is planning to push water into the lower Esopus via the Ashokan waste channel starting tomorrow, in response to predicted snowstorms in the Catskills region. According... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:25 pm
According to the Ellenville Central School District's website, a lit cigarette caused a fire in the basement of the High School and smoke damage throughout the school building last night.
A previous post on the school's website this morning, which has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Black bear cub. Photo by Alan Vernon, via Flickr.
According to the New York State Department of Conservation's 2010 hunting numbers for bear and deer, which were released yesterday, the Catskills are the place to go if you're hunting black bear. Three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 11:00 am
The Daily Freeman is reporting that a car ran head-on into a tractor-trailer on Rte. 28 yesterday afternoon in the town of Ulster. The paper reports that a 65-year-old man heading westbound drifted into the oncoming lane and caused the accident. The man... Read more
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