Ulster County
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Last week's public meeting about the Partition Street development project in Saugerties is still prompting reactions. Peter Solow of Saugerties has published a public comment on the Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development website in which he suggests... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:50 pm
It's become an annual tradition for high school students from New York City and its upstate watershed communities to get together to talk about the science and policy of the NYC watershed. Last week, the Ashokan Center hosted 30 students from John Bowne... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 2:28 pm
It's maple syrup season in the Catskills, and everybody's getting into the spirit. Last Saturday was the first day of Maple Weekend, when local producers of maple syrup and maple sugar throw open their sugar house doors to tourists. (The festival pours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 11:40 am
March flowers: Female flowers of the silver maple, Acer saccharinum
In 1922, T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month. Since then, global warming may have pushed the ficklest season’s sweet torments into March. As of last weekend, it’s officially spring... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 11:38 am
Shouting Thomas, a nurse and EMT-in-training from Woodstock, had to spend yesterday's gorgeous weather sitting inside, taking a class on how to drive an ambulance. Luckily, the class was held at Woodstock's Fire Department, so he got an up-close look at a... Read more
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 WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Come for the fresh guacamole, stay for the pineapple-infused tequila. Hudson Valley Magazine's Lynn Hazlewood checks out Gaby's Cafe, a new-ish Mexican place in Ellenville, and declares it delectable:
It’s a casual little place, painted in bright, fruity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:31 am
Aaaaand the prize goes to the Shawangunk Journal, for yesterday's story on flooding in Wawarsing: "Pump and Circumstance."
Part of Wawarsing is perched atop New York City's leaking Delaware Aqueduct. State senator John Bonacic is trying to get approval... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:07 am
Something strange haunts a certain house on North Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz. You may have noticed it. One recent commentor on the Ulster Publishing forum did:
If you are driving on Henry Dubois Road in New Paltz where it intersects with North... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 9:56 pm
Steve's Digicams, a digital camera site whose members often share photographs in the forums, has some incredible recent pictures of the Ashokan from Samsonville Road. Check it out.



