Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 5:16 pm
This properly belongs in our Shandaken flooding roundup, but it's so awesome we gave it its own post. Our hats are off, to you, O pseudonymous videographer goCatskills, for this epic footage of flooding all around Phoenicia. Set to Beethoven's Fifth, no... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 3:06 pm
Above: Big Tree Field at the Frost Valley YMCA in Claryville this morning. Photo by Frost Valley YMCA. Below: Photo of Claryville Fire Dept. by Jennifer Grimes.
County Bridge 364 is washed out, says the Catskill Chronicle.
"The County will send a bridge... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:50 am
Above: Photo of a bridge in Brown Rd/McKinley Hollow in Big Indian Valley this morning by Pierre Levesque. Below, a photo of flooding reaching the door of a cabin in McKinley Hollow by Levesque.
Below: A CNN iReport by user kkeaveny. Photo taken around 4... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 10:48 am
Yesterday's fire in Saugerties destroyed 123 Partition St., which housed a wine store and five apartments, the Daily Freeman reports, but no one was hurt in the blaze:
No one who lives or works in the building was injured, though one firefighter strained... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:04 am
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:44 am
There's a four-family apartment building on fire in Saugerties right now, according to a tweet by the Ulster County Red Cross. The state transportation alert system is reporting that Rte. 9W between Main St. and Russell St. is closed because of the blaze... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:38 am
The National Weather Service just issued a Tornado Watch for most of eastern New York, including the Catskills region:
Tornado Watch issued September 28 at 9:57AM CDT expiring September 28 at 5:00PM CDT by NWS Storm Prediction Center
Activation Time: 09/... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 3:01 pm
The circus that was comedian Stephen Colbert's testimony on migrant workers before Congress this week had an Ulster County connection: Colbert's expertise in migrant issues was earned during a one-day stint of work at Gill Corn Farms in the town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 10:14 am
The Shawangunk Journal interviewed the family of Ryan Panchak, the 29-year-old who drowned in the Esopus while fishing a week ago. Panchak was the father of a one-year-old son:
Panchak was a 1999 graduate of Kingston High School and had a baby son, Jacob... Read more
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