Catskill Heritage Alliance
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 - 10:47 pm
Story updated Wednesday, 12/7.
A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled to toss out a lawsuit by opponents of the long-planned Belleayre Resort project.
The plaintiffs, an alliance of environmental advocates and wealthy neighbors of the land on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 - 4:32 pm
Above: A model of one of the the planned hotels, viewed from above, of the proposed Belleayre Resort project. Photo by Julia Reischel.
The Catskill Heritage Alliance, a nonprofit group that has long opposed the construction of the 739-acre Belleayre... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 11, 2015 - 12:58 am
In one of his final acts as New York State's top environmental official, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens acted on Friday to allow the long-awaited Belleayre Resort project in the Catskills to move forward.
In a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2014 - 6:36 pm
For months, backers of the long-planned Belleayre Resort project have been eagerly anticipating the end of the state Department of Environmental Conservation's lengthy process of environmental review.
The developer, Crossroads Ventures LLC, is eager to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2014 - 12:38 pm
The Catskill Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group that has long been critical of the proposed Belleayre Resort project in Highmount, has released a study that claims the resort will fail unless scaled back.
The study, commissioned by Washington... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 - 1:38 pm
To The Editor:
So it continues with a small but vocal group known as the Catskill Heritage Alliance. On the record as being against cell towers, against full expansion of the Belleayre Ski Center, against the Belleayre Resort and against unrestricted... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 3, 2013 - 11:26 am
Dear Editor:
Last week the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released documents for review of the proposed Crossroads resort and plans for expansion at the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center (http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/90370.html).
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 1:06 pm
Photo of snowboards at Belleayre by Flickr user Steven Kreuser. Published under Creative Commons license.
Should the Belleayre Mountain ski center, currently run by the New York State Department of Conservation, be turned over to a quasi-private authority... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 17, 2011 - 2:47 pm
Calling all seniors at Andes, Margaretville, Onteora and Roxbury schools: You could win $300 bucks by waxing poetical about growing up here in the Catskills. The deadline for the annual Catskill Heritage Alliance essay competition is this Friday, and all... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 1:50 pm
In an editorial printed in the Times-Union today, Catskill Heritage Alliance chairman Richard Schaedle points out an interesting coincidence: the cost of keeping the state parks open this summer is exactly the same as the price that developer Dean Gitter... Read more