Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:35 pm
For the second time in a month, there's been a fatal car accident on Rte. 28 near De Silva Rd. in Boiceville, in the town of Olive.
This afternoon, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record, one person was killed on that stretch of road... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 9:47 am
An article in the Times Herald-Record today reports that the Woodstock Film Festival and Hudson Valley Film Commission are raising $600,000 to buy a home for a full-time film center in Woodstock. On their fundraising page for their new capital campaign,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 3:26 pm
That's a helpful reminder from the Times Herald-Record, which is reporting on a phone scam in Saugerties that involves a call from a fictional police squad code-named URGENT:
Complaints are pouring in to the Saugerties Police Department about calls from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 11:03 am
With elections fast approaching, you don't want to be the politician who had to phone in this correction from today's Daily Freeman:
Ulster County Legislator James Maloney, who also is town of Ulster assessor, is a Republican.
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 - 1:19 pm
Richard Weishaupt Jr., of Saugerties, was sentenced on Friday to two and one-third to seven years for theft and endangering the welfare of a child. The crime? Weishaupt and his 14-year-old son broke into the pool house of the old IBM Recreation Center in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 9:07 am
In a comment on an article about county fairs in Grist, a commenter going by the name of sewassbe complains that the Ulster County Fair doesn't showcase enough real agriculture:
I went to the Ulster County, NY fair a few weekends ago. And was rather... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 - 9:43 am
Long has the 13-and-a-half-foot-tall statue at Homegrown Mini Golf and Kelder's Farm on Route 209 reigned supreme as the world's tallest garden gnome. But no longer, says the Times Herald-Record:
Now, according to Guinness World Records, Chomsky has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 7:18 pm
That's Tommy Ramone, nee Tom Erdelyi -- and he'll be performing with guitarist Claudia Tienan at 2pm Sunday afternoon, on the porch of Homer and Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques.
The duo, known as Uncle Monk, play a mean streak of bluegrass, a fact that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 8:48 am
After last week's controversial goose murder in the town of Ulster, a 19-year-old named Christopher Roser has been charged with the act. Instead of being charged with animal cruelty, however, he's being charged with "the unlawful taking of a migratory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 3:45 pm
Today is the big day for the Rosendale Theatre Collective. The group that spent this year raising money to buy the endangered Rosendale Theatre is signing its mortgage and spending its Pepsi Refresh Grant, possibly as we speak. Tonight at 6pm, there will... Read more
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