Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:18 am
The literati descend on Woodstock this weekend for four days of workshopping, schmoozing, wining and dining. The guest list this year includes Shalom Auslander, Susan Orlean and Ruth Reichl. (If you want to get Reichl to dish about the tragic demise of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 - 1:27 pm
The DEC is looking for a full-time fearless warrior in their New Paltz office to help combat the spread of exotic invasive giant hogweed. It's mostly a desk jockey job. But if you're spoiling for battle, you'll get your chance.
Occasional fieldwork will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 - 1:09 pm
The polls opened at noon today at the New Paltz High School for a vote on whether or not to approve a $50 million bond bill to renovate the Middle School. Temperatures have been rising steadily as the vote has approached, according to the New Paltz Times... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 - 11:45 am
Changes are afoot at Woodstock's independent movie theater, according to the Woodstock Times.
New managers Dede and Steve Leiber, who own a nonprofit movie theater in Rhinebeck called Upstate Films, began leasing the Tinker Street Cinema this month.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Ulster County political types really like the Internet. Comptroller Eliot Auerbach has a blog. So do legislator Mike Madsen and former Kingston mayoral candidate Rich Cahill. There's Jeremy Blaber, a Democratic campaigner with a lively blog on the Ulster... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 5:26 pm
Never mind dancing hamsters. This is what the internet was made for.
Mt. Tremper writer Tony Fletcher, whose jazz-to-punk history of the New York music scene, All Hopped Up And Ready To Go, came out last year, has teamed up with 8tracks.com on an online... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 4:19 pm
SUNY New Paltz student Steve Deffabia reports that his study abroad program in Cardiff has gotten off to a rocky start:
We get to the baggage claim area where it is just me, Nina, and Christine waiting for our luggage. Christine grabs hers. Nina snatches... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 10:35 am
At the Kingston Progressive blog, Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen weighs in on Warren Redlich, a Tea Party/libertarian type who's looking to topple Rick Lazio in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
Question is, what are the chances of the New York... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 - 10:21 pm
And we're celebrating it. (Maybe you thought there was no black history in the Catskills?)
Check out this find from the papers of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society: depositions from an 1822 trial in Catskill, Greene County in which "James Fox a negro" is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 - 9:48 pm
A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated along with the Long Island Business News and Times Herald-Record that the Nevele had finally been sold. Well, it was under contract, anyway. Which is just paperwork, right?
Wrong. The THR's Adam Bosch reports that a... Read more
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