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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the state's intermediate appeals court handed a victory to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a fight with a Windham landowner over watershed development regulations.
According to the decision,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:21 pm
A Jewish summer camp for boys, which was slated to open this week on the grounds of the former Scotch Valley Ski Resort in Jefferson, had to send all its campers home on Sunday, reports the Mountain Eagle.
The camp -- Jewish Boy Zone, which is owned by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 10:21 am
The Vermont-based Center for Biological Diversity informed Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar yesterday that they are suing the government on behalf of two bat species that have been decimated by a mysterious fungus. From the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 12:41 pm
Embattled Oorah, Inc., a Jewish organization that runs a summer camp for girls in Gilboa, won a court battle against the town of Jefferson yesterday. The ruling will allow Oorah to go forward with building a matching summer camp for boys on the grounds of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 5:39 pm
Cathryn Platine, the Reverend Mother of the Maetreum of Cybele.
Palenville’s loudest property tax critic is a witch.
Cathryn Platine, a towering 60-year-old pagan who can trace her ancestry back to one of the witches who was hung in Salem in 1692, is the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 3:26 pm
The New York Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit targeting the state system of providing public defenders to poor defendants in criminal court. The New York Times reports:
New York’s highest court ruled on Thursday that a broad... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 - 12:50 pm
A whole bunch of village, town and county officials in Ulster County are probably wishing that they'd never heard of Richard-Enrique Ulloa, a man whom they accused of fraud and extortion in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court a week ago.
According to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 12:31 pm
The parents of Richard Vandemark, who hung himself in Ulster County jail a year ago, are suing the Ulster County Sheriff and several prision officials, according to the Daily Freeman.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:47 am
Four of the six alleged sexual-abuse victims of accused Margaretville priest James McDevitt are suing the Albany Catholic diocese, in hopes of recovering an unspecified amount of money. If they succeed, they'll join just a handful of accusers to get cash... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 - 11:29 am
The former owner of a shuttered Gilboa resort is suing the site's new owners, accusing them of fraud, stealing his golf cart, hot-wiring his tractor, and letting animals trample his lawn.
In 2006, Jerome J. Gauthier sold the site of the former Golden... Read more
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