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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 7:35 pm
Tip for not getting arrested after plowing a pickup truck into the side of a house: Don't park your truck down the block.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting the arrest of 59-year-old Tom Beverley of Esopus on Thursday, after investigating an... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 1:23 pm
Left to right: Ann Epner, director of the Pine Hill Community Center; Dr. Alison O’Brien, thrift store volunteer; Kent Brown, deputy director of the MARK Project. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
The Pine Hill Community Center donated $ 618.64, the proceeds of... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 11:24 am
Above: Vintage postcard of Main Street, Phoenicia. From the collection of local resident Stephen Bernstein; shared by the Woodland Valley View blog.
Small towns have some big advantages. They also have serious drawbacks. I came for the advantages and deal... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 - 11:22 am
On Wednesday, we reported that a man had jumped into the Hudson River from the pedestrian walkway along the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
The Register-Star is reporting that a man's body has been recovered from an area of the river north of the bridge.
State... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 11:44 pm
Among Irene's many losses were the supplies that food activist Diane Reeder of Kingston had assembled for her snow day lunch program for area children. Reeder, executive director of the Queens Galley, strives to make sure that no one in the area goes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Michael A. KissingerDerrick YoungThomas J. MercerSince November, state troopers in Schoharie and Montgomery Counties have been getting complaints about mysterious BB gun shooters who fire on unsuspecting cars from a moving vehicle. Yesterday, the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 - 8:53 am
The public comment period for the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) about hydraulic fracturing in New York State closed yesterday with more comments than any other state environmental issue ever.
New York State Department... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 7:47 pm
East-bound on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, which connects Greene and Columbia Counties. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg. Used under Creative Commons license.
A disturbing story is unfolding tonight surrounding the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, where a man... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:42 am
Gale McGovern, 1938-2011Prominent activist Gale McGovern, who played a leading role in dozens of Hudson Valley causes and campaigns, died suddenly on Tuesday, December 27 at her home in Olivebridge. She was 73.
An obituary published recently by the Mid-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:38 am
Yesterday, Tuesday January 10, the Shandaken Police and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation cited 53-year-old Gerasimos Kokosis and 60-year-old Alexandros Bardis for burning a large amount of demolition debris at the site of the former... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 11:27 am
Editor's note: The Onteora Central School District held a meeting last night in Boiceville at which Superintendent Phyllis Spiegel McGill said that she prefers the "bookend" plan, according to an article in the Daily Freeman. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 10:56 am
NYSDEC issued a press release this week detailing the case against Fless 5 Development, Inc. and its CEO Shane Klein of Brooklyn, who stood accused of violating a court-ordered stipulation requiring the company to comply with stormwater permitting... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 - 9:02 am
Above: It wasn't a white Christmas this year in the Catskills. Photo of a Delaware County dairy farm on Christmas Eve this year by Mark Zilberman, via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
After an oddly snow-less winter so far, Mother Nature is going to make... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the Our Towns columnist at the New York Times, has a nuanced article out this week about how the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has split the environmental movement down the middle, particularly in the Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 - 11:58 am
Above: The New York Power Authority's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped-Storage Power Project in the town of Blenheim in Schoharie County. Photo via the New York Power Authority's website.
At the year's first meeting of the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors last... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 6:31 pm
80-year-old Verna Hess of Callicoon died Sunday morning when her car hit a utility pole on Route 52 in White Sulphur Springs, the Times Herald-Record reports.
[Sullivan County sheriff's] deputies found Verna Hess inside of a 1991 Buick Century. The White... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 6:17 pm
The Olive Town Board meets at 7:30pm on Tuesday, January 10 for its regular monthly meeting. Here's the agenda:
Olive Town Meeting Agenda: January 10th
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 - 8:53 am
Above: Video coverage of Saturday's "people's hearing" by videographer Jessica Vecchione.
On Saturday, a coalition of anti-fracking groups organized a "people's hearing" to accept public comments about hydraulic fracturing from Catskills residents.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 2:44 pm
While Ulster County executive Mike Hein is busy pouring lighter fluid on long-smoldering conflicts between New York City and its upstate watershed, Delaware County politician Jim Eisel is quick to distance himself from the feud.
Yesterday, Eisel, who... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 - 1:15 pm
This map from the New York state education department depicts areas that are not served by public libraries. Many communities in Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties remain underserved.
With roof trusses going up this week,... Read more
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