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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 12:51 pm
A film crew from WTEN Albany and a photographer from the Catskill Moutain News were on hand on Monday in Arkille as over 100 people gathered to protest the Department of Environmental Protection's layoffs at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center. The Daily Star... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 11:53 am
The Daily Freeman's Jay Braman broke the news today that Belleayre Ski Center is going to see some nasty job cuts: Belleayre Mountain Superintendent Tony Lanza delivered bad news today to ski center employees. Lanza said he told staff members that top... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.  Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 9:23 pm
Belleayre Mountain and the German-American Club of the Northern Catskills hosting their annual Oktoberfest celebration last Saturday. Photo by Mary McKeon.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 6:14 pm
Apparently, the residents of Ulster and Delaware counties. Belleayre just posted this plaintive update on its Twitter and Facebook pages: good gracious. does no one want to see Patti LuPone?? C'mon, people, you know that a Broadway veteran will be a good... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 4:00 pm
We must stress that it's preliminary, but what you see above is the gist of the new Catskills-specific design that will soon be perched atop road signs throughout Catskill Park. It's the result of months of brainstorming by a crack team of town... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 12:23 pm
A few weeks ago, Crossroads developer Dean Gitter was swearing up and down that state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wasn't holding up a key 2007 Belleayre land deal because of the hefty price tag, never mind what the New York Post had to say about it. Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:30 am
Last night, Ulster county legislators voiced their approval of the latest plan for a resort to be built near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center by Dean Gitter, a developer with Crossroads Ventures LLC. The Daily Freeman reports that 27 legislators voted in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010 - 1:25 pm
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen reports from a recent presentation by local developer Dean Gitter on the ever-changing plans for the Belleayre Resort. After 11 years and 100 alterations to the project, you'd think the latest version would be a slam-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Online ski magazine First Tracks ran a fantastic interview yesterday with Joe Kelly, founder and chair of the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain. The central Catskills region needs the ski area not only to survive, but to flourish. That’s why I became... Read more

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