Government
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:24 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that when a bear tried to crawl into a Parksville house on Sunday, the woman inside made three calls: to the state police, to the Department of Environmental Conservation, and to her grandfather. Unluckily for the bear,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:13 pm
It probably isn't news to locals that in Ulster County, the city of Kingston pays for the lion's share of Safety Net, a statewide welfare program. In most of the state, the buck stops with the county. Not so in Ulster County, which bills towns for half... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 7:09 pm
Monticello, the Sullivan County village whose mayhem and machinations lately have been worthy of prime-time on HBO, continues to be wracked with political intrigue. The latest, in the Times Herald-Record: Twice-ousted village manager John Barbarite, a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 5:14 pm
It turns out that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade on behalf of New York City drinking water only targeted about 10 percent of the drugs that humans flush down the toilet. The other 90 percent, according to an article in Time Magazine this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:14 am
Say you're in the area of Oneida, Madison, Otsego, Broome, Chenango, Montgomery and Schoharie counties. You're having a tough time getting tourists excited about visiting. "Leatherstocking Region" just isn't bringing in the crowds like it used to. What do... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:38 am
Updated DEP regulations, in the works for several years, went into effect over the weekend. The Daily Freeman has a story.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 10:30 am
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation dropped another piece of bad news about state parks yesterday: fees are going up. The press release says that parking fees will rise to $8 per vehicle at "flagship" state parks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 10:12 pm
Yesterday's Daily Freeman had the goods: a Freedom of Information Law request turned up a damning report from the state Commission on Corrections on the death of 22-year-old Richard Vandemark in the Ulster County jail last April. Vandemark hanged himself... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office isn't the most press-friendly shop in town, even for New York state government. When the Watershed Post was reporting on their recent actions against hospitals in the NYC watershed, I wasn't able to get a comment... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 10:30 am
After subtracting 100 votes from its total election tally yesterday, Walton was forced to rename its election's winners and losers:
Morley's total was originally announced as 165 votes, winning him one of the two available seats, but the actual number... Read more
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