Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 - 10:07 am
Clark Richters, who runs the videoblog Kingston News, found yesterday that his camera wasn't welcome at one of Kingston alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes's regular meetings with her Fifth Ward constituents.
Richters writes that "it was a very informative... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 3:26 pm
File under: Their Diamond Shoes Are Too Tight.
McPherson & Co., a small indie publishing house in Kingston, is facing a tricky problem: A title slated for release on Monday, the novel Lord of Misrule by author Jaimy Gordon, has been nominated for a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 1:03 pm
Site plan for Partition Street Project, from Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development.
The people of Saugerties are facing a dilemma: Does their government tax the controversial and still-to-be-built Partitiion Street Project development a lot now, via... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Phil Brown, who pens the Adirondack Dispatches blog for the Times Union, had a great post on Monday about two accomplished "ski mountaineers," Mike Whelan and Ron Konowitz, who have teamed up to make a mini-documentary about skiing down Slide Mountain:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 9:08 am
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 - 8:20 am
21-year-old Christopher A. Depew was arrested on Thursday, allegedly because he stole a diamond engagement ring from a Port Ewen person for whom Depew worked as a home health aid, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. For... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 - 9:53 am
The Woodland Valley View alerts us that there's a new webcam in Shandaken, thanks to a local with a Weather Underground page and a bit of hardware in his backyard.
News flash: It's drippy out there. Shandaken's newest data point joins webcams across the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
The State Police are reporting that a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who walked into the woods alone on Monday has been found dead today in a 500-acre area off of Anbu Rd. in the town of Shandaken. There are no details yet about how Christopher Brennan died... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 11:49 am
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
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