Saugerties
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:45 pm
The proposed conference center development for Partition Street in the village of Saugerties was debated last night at a long-awaited public meeting of the village's Planning Board. Today, the conversation is still going on at the comment boards at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 2:47 pm
The Watershed Post editorial team took advantage of an unseasonably warm afternoon to swing by Opus 40 yesterday, which, we discovered, is closed in the winter except by appointment. (And, we assume, except for prospective buyers.) But while we were in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 - 5:13 pm
In the MLS database for $3.5 million: A Saugerties property with 4 beds, 3 baths, 2,860 square feet of living space, and a backyard that rivals the seven wonders of the ancient world. Opus 40, a massive bluestone sculpture that sprawls across an abandoned... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 9:12 am
Congressman Maurice Hinchey introduced a bill in support of the Saugerties businessowners on February 5. You can track its progress on OpenCongress, a handy website that provides easy access to federal legislation.
From a comment left on OpenCongress,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 - 4:57 pm
A singer performs on Friday, Feb. 12, at the Muddy Cup in Saugerties.
Photo by katstan. Posted in the Watershed Post photo pool on Flickr.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 - 9:38 am
The AP has an incredible story about Saugerties business owners Emilio and Analia Maya, Argentine natives who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and who now face deportation.
According to the story, the brother and sister have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:00 pm
The prize goes to the Kingston Times for this glorious specimen:
Fowl Play: Catskill Animal Sanctuary volunteers travel 1,000 miles to rescue sickly chickens after crystal meth lab bust
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 10:25 pm
Unless things change dramatically for Emilio Maya, a restaurant owner, husband and father in Saugerties, he'll be on a plane to Argentina in a few weeks. A Daily Freeman story reports that on November 17, immigration agents seized him on his way to work... Read more