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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 2:57 pm
This just in from the Times Herald-Record: Facing threats of legal action from Ulster County over their releases of turbid water into the Esopus Creek, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has promised to stop the releases in 30 days.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 2:51 pm
Yesterday's New York Times featured the town of Roxbury in Delaware County in a big way: Reporter Bethany Lyttle, who has a house in Roxbury, interviewed fellow Roxbury fellows-about-town Michael Mathis and Christopher Durham about how they've managed to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 11:47 am
Hunter Mountain has posted a pretty incredible mini-movie of snowboarders enjoying the 10 inches of beautiful snow it got this week. Makes you want to get outside this weekend, doesn't it?
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 10:05 am
Quote of the day: Former GOP Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan, who may or may not be representing New York's 100th Assembly District for the next two years, depending on the outcome of a vote recount that is still (believe it or not) dragging on. From the Daily... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 9:44 am
An incident on Wednesday which ended with three Lanes arrested on various snowplow- and baseball-bat-related charges has yielded a few more arrests. From the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 4:18 pm
A Main Street Stamford hair salon has a new owner and an excellent new name, the Mountain Eagle reports today. Reporter Rosie Cunningham writes that the new name was inspired by proprietor Shanda Whitbeck's dicey experience with elbow surgery.
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 3:17 pm
Arrested, of course.
This truly epic tale of familial feuding just came in over the transom, from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. We're a little in awe of the huevos required to assault your opponent's vehicle in the parking lot of the police station... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 1:45 pm
Shane TadrossAn state trooper who stopped to assist a pulled-over driver on the side of Rte. 20 in the Schoharie County town of Sharon stumbled into a treasure trove of psychedelic mushrooms on Tuesday night.
The driver of the car, 38-year-old Shane N.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 10:55 am
In the Daily Star today: Reporter Patricia Breakey pounds the pavement for details on Mike Allen, the 31-year-old Walton man accused of burning down the First Baptist Church on Tuesday morning. Friends and neighbors paint a sad picture of mental illness... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 9:03 am
Above: A photo of one of the many scenes of the abandoned Grossinger's resort.
The first time Jonathan Haeber heard of Grossinger's, he was reading Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Part of the story is set at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 4:40 pm
Above: Footage from Rally New York 2009.
A couple of Walton town board members are still against it, but it looks like Rally New York will zoom through Walton roads again this year. From the Daily Star:
Walton Supervisor Bruce Dolph and council members... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 2:25 pm
This just in from the CWC: Boiceville's wastewater treatment plant project, a feat of engineering two years in the making, is finished. The plant went online last summer, and on January 7, the last hookup pipe connecting the new plant to a Boiceville home... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 10:10 am
The intrepid snow diviners at Plattekill Mountain stuck a ruler in the ground at 7:30am this morning to find over 7 inches of snow. (See image above, via the Plattekill Facebook page.) And it's still coming down.
For more ski mountain snow photos, check... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 - 9:47 am
More details are emerging about Ulster County's threat to sue the New York City Department of Environmental Protection over its releases of turbid water into the Lower Esopus.
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports that County Executive Mike Hein... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 6:24 pm
From the Times Herald-Record:
State Sen. John Bonacic has been named chairman of two powerful Senate committees.
Bonacic, R-C-Mount Hope, will head the Senate’s Racing, Wagering and Gaming Committee and also the Judiciary Committee, his office announced... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 5:43 pm
The National Weather Service has issued a storm warning for Sullivan and Delaware Counties. From NY-Alert:
..Winter Storm Warning In Effect From 7 PM This Evening To 7 PM EST Wednesday... The National Weather Service In Binghamton Has Issued A Winter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 5:31 pm
The Times Herald-Record has an exclusive: Ulster County Executive Mike Hein has announced that the county is suing New York City over its release of muddy water from the Ashokan reservoir into the Lower Esopus River. From the story, which broke around 5pm... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 3:21 pm
The public-transportation-promoting blog Cap'n Transit published an interesting (and disturbing) map on Sunday that shows that Sullivan County has more car crash fatatities per person than any other county in the New York Tri-State area.
The map, which is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 2:34 pm
Above: WBNG footage of the scene at the First Baptist Church in Walton, destroyed by fire early this morning.
This just in from the Walton Police Department:
At approximately 3:25am, 911 received a call reporting a fire at the Baptist Church on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 - 10:27 am
In the Daily Mail today: The Greene County Sheriff's Office will have to return $214,000 in federal grant money, awarded in 2001 for the purchase of computer equipment and never spent for its intended purpose. Colin DeVries reports:
According to a letter... Read more
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