Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:26 pm
Bravo to Ulster County -- it has a live election tally rolling on their website for all races that is astoundingly easy to use. (At the moment, John Bonacic is leading David Sager in one of the more prominent races.)
The Times Herald-Record is impressed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Last Thursday, the Central Catskills Collaborative re-christened the stretch of Route 28 that runs between Hurley and Andes as the "Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway."
The re-naming is part of the lengthy process of getting the road special recognition as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Town of Ulster supervisor James Quigley made a tactical error when he decided to call political blogger Jeremy Blaber last weekend. Quigley, who was upset about a post Blaber had written, was furious when he got Blaber's voicemail, and decided to let it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:45 am
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 10:42 am
On Wednesday night on Lucas Turnpike in Accord, Ulster County Sheriff's Office deputies came upon a "suspicious vehicle in an area known for larcenies," according to a press release. When the Sheriff's Office patrol car began to approach the vehicle, it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 5:30 pm
This week, the Daily Freeman caught up with the still-in-the-works Crossroads Resort development and its backer, Dean Gitter, who told the paper that rumors of the project's demise have been greatly exaggerated:
“It has been a while since we communicated... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 2:20 pm
The photo above bears more than a passing resemblance to the Meeting of the Waters, the famous spot in the Brazilian Amazon where the muddy "white" water of the Solimoes flows into the "black" water of the Rio Negro. But no: It's the Lower Esopus Creek,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 - 3:06 pm
The Golden Notebook in Woodstock. Photo from the bookstore's Facebook page.
After months of fretting that their favorite independent local bookstore would close for good, bibliophiles in Woodstock can rejoice. The Golden Notebook, a venerable local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 - 9:20 am
Round Top Barn on the Shultis family farm in Wittenberg, Ulster County. Below, one man's memories of a childhood in the Catskills, submitted by Watershed Post reader Lawrence J. Caldwell. If you have tales of bygone Catskills to share, send them to us at... Read more
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