Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 6:10 pm
*Update, 11pm: We hear from Jeremy Blaber, of all people, that as of 8pm, 28 was opened to one lane of traffic in alternating directions.
We noted this fact in the big flood post we've been updating all day, but we thought it might be getting buried under... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 5:00 pm
In Denning, Jennifer Grimes reports (with video!) that Sawmill Road has become impassable:
The flood waters coming off the Neversink and crossing Sawmill were already too deep for my Audi. But renters staying at The Lodge, hunters up for the week, came to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 12:51 pm
A film crew from WTEN Albany and a photographer from the Catskill Moutain News were on hand on Monday in Arkille as over 100 people gathered to protest the Department of Environmental Protection's layoffs at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.
The Daily Star... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:32 am
*Note: This post's been updated (and the headline changed as well). Read the whole thing to hear the DEP's response to accusations that they're a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of driftwood-hoarders. Maybe there's a happy ending to this sad little story after all... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 8:50 am
Peter Manning, the Regional Planner for the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, has sent us some more details on those Smart Growth grants that were announced yesterday. (He stresses that the plans for the money, which were first drafted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 3:49 pm
"A November Brown Catskills," by Dennis Schvejda. Posted to the Watershed Post Flickr group.
The Catskills Center for Conservation and Development has good news for Andes, Olive, Shandaken, Arkville, Margaretville, Middletown, Fleischmanns, and the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 11:21 am
Accord resident Kevin Chronister, 46, has been arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly trying to burn a 9-year-old with a lit cigarette. A press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Deputies from the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 12:59 pm
Brooklyn Bridge in the snow, by Randy Lemoine. Photo via Flickr, some rights reserved.
Michele Forsten, the director of communications for New York City College of Technology/CUNY, bought a condo in Ulster County in order to get away from the big city.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:05 am
Local purveyor of scrumptiosity Shandaken Bake had Village Voice writer Rebecca Marx swooning yesterday over a tasty tidbit she picked up at the New Amsterdam Market. The baked good in question? An ordinary-looking slice of maple parsnip bread.
If you've... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 9:56 am
A fight between two residents at an assisted-living home in Esopus got so violent that one man was airlifted to Albany by helicopter, and another is facing felony assault charges, police say. A press release issued last night by the Ulster County Sheriff'... Read more
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