Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 9:54 am
Daily Freeman correspondent Jay Braman Jr. reports that after this season's back-to-back floods in Phoenicia, plans to prevent the Esopus from flooding is finally getting some traction:
State Sen. John Bonacic discussed flooding problems on Tuesday with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Another arrest has been made in the Case of the Food Stamp Millionaires: 71-year old Anup Virk, the father of the man who owns the convenience store at the center of an alleged million-dollar scheme to buy food stamps from their customers at half price,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 2:06 pm
In the Times-Union today is a juicy story just in time for ski season: Local ski centers Windham Mountain and Hunter Mountain are on the offensive against state-run Belleayre Mountain, arguing that the Highmount ski center is undercutting their business... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 2:14 pm
It's been a rough year for the arts in upstate New York. Between the most brutal state budget in recent memory and the tough economy, 2010 was more about surviving than thriving for many local arts and cultural organizations. But there was a surprising... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 9:34 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Department has arrested 16-year-old Thomas J. Langjan of Kerhonkson and an unnamed 14-year-old accomplice for having "subjected a 16-year-old female to unwelcome sexual contact." The press release is below:
Thomas J. Langjan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 4:41 pm
The New York Times' House Tour columns can be quite cheeky. In an interview with a Saugerties second-home owner Jeff Blum on Thursday, reporter Bethany Lyttle (who weekends in Roxbury herself), got a pretty fabulous quote:
In 2002 I was living in a loft... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Woodstock was hopping last night with revelers prowling for cookies, wine, and Christmas lights at its holiday open house. We were there and stumbled upon Santa Claus, who was handing out poems and candy canes at FreeStyle Realty. For more photos from the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:58 pm
Last time the Esopus jumped its banks, on October 1, local photographer and videographer Franz Edlinger created an epic video of the flooding set to Beethoven's Fifth.
For the floods this week, Edlinger's picked something a little more Catskillian -- the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:12 am
Rick Karlin, a Capitol Bureau correspondent for the Albany Times Union writes this morning that at least three Belleayre employees might be laid off solely because the last four digits of their social security numbers are too low:
[C]an simply having the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 7:58 pm
Above: Main Street, Phoenicia around 6pm, December 1. Photo by Aaron Bennett.
11:15pm update: Menla Mountain's John Lundin took some great photos this afternoon of flooding at the retreat center. Below: A normally-placid dam spillway rages. (Posted with... Read more
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