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Mar. 10, 2010
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
Mar. 9, 2010
Spectators along the Rondout Creek got a rare glimpse of an Arctic harp seal yesterday. The Daily Freeman has the story, with video.
Steve Noble, an environmental educator for the city Parks and Recreation Department, said the seal, which spent most of... Read more
Mar. 9, 2010
Today's New York Post profiles three Catskill mountains--Hunter, Windham and Plattekill--and exhorts New Yorkers to keep hitting the slopes til Easter. (And don't forget Belleayre!)
All the late-season snow has been a literal windfall for skiers. Check... Read more
Mar. 9, 2010
A panel discussion of natural-gas drilling at SUNY New Paltz last night drew several hundred people, the Times Herald-Record reports.
Those against it — including New York City and most of the crowd of some 200 Monday night — again said drilling, or... Read more
Mar. 8, 2010
A proposed 355-mile power line from Canada to New York City--much of it buried in the PCB-laced muck of the Hudson River--will be the topic of a developer presentation tomorrow, at 6pm at the Holiday Inn at 300 Broadway in Albany.
Taghkanic resident Sam... Read more
Mar. 7, 2010
Top honors to Roxbury's Roger Ross Williams for Best Documentary Short.
Williams and the film's producer, Elinor Burkett, had a bit of a Kanye West moment on stage.
Here's the acceptance speech Williams planned to make.
Update: Salon gets the scoop... Read more
Mar. 7, 2010
In a little over an hour, Roxbury resident Roger Ross Williams will find out if he's taking home an Oscar. The director and his crew are up for their film "Music By Prudence," a short documentary about a severely disabled Zimbabwean singer-songwriter.... Read more
Mar. 5, 2010
Got a bachelor's degree in science? Want to fight invasive species in the New York City watershed? Now's your chance.
Duties include identifying and mapping invasive forest insect and plant occurrences, detecting occurrences that are moving into the... Read more
Mar. 5, 2010
Dick May at Seeing Greene bemoans Greene County's dismal ranking in a recent list of New York State counties ranked by health: 59 out of 62.
GreeneLand’s score on health “factors” got pushed down chiefly by the habits and traits of its inhabitants,... Read more
Mar. 5, 2010
New York is going blue and gold again after all. Sort of.
Under a revised license plate plan, the Daily Mail says, New Yorkers will be issued blue-and-gold plates for new vehicles come April 1, but can keep their old white Liberty license plates when... Read more
Mar. 5, 2010
Traditionally, No. 6 is the Iron Anniversary. Last weekend marked the sixth anniversary of the gay weddings in New Paltz, and the mood was appropriately grim for the couples joining former mayor Jason West to mark the occasion.
As a member of one of the... Read more
Mar. 4, 2010
New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen recently spent an evening at the Falcon, an Ulster County venue he describes as an "unlikely jazz haven."
I began hearing about the Falcon four or five years ago, from musicians who had played there. It sounded like... Read more
Mar. 4, 2010
Realtor Jennifer Grimes just got her power back on after a week of no electricity--and now the phone's out. Wait, now the power's out again, too. Rats.
Seems a tree fell down behind Brooks’ Chestnut Woods and broke a phone pole. WIll investigate (and... Read more
Mar. 4, 2010
Ulster County farmer John Fazio has been getting plenty of attention from the Internet lately, thanks to a couple of media mentions: a Food Curated video of his rabbits, and an article in the New York Times on rabbits-as-dinner. The video, which features... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
According to Dairy Herd Management, bright prospects for Domino's could be driving up dairy prices nationwide.
Increased pizza consumption may help trim excess cheese supplies and provide a lift for beleaguered dairy producers still reeling from a milk-... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
The Chronogram's Sari Botton profiles the Rosendale Theater Collective, the group that's seeking to buy the Rosendale Theatre from its longtime owner/operators, the Cacchio family. The collective has a lot of fundraising to do to meet their $600,000 goal... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
That's what Ulster County comptroller Elliot Auerbach claims the proposed budget axe is going to do to Ulster County tourism revenue.
(Ask not for whom the axe tolls: It tolls for Minnewaska State Park, the Kingston Senate House and the Walkway Over the... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
The Catskill Landowners Association issued a press release today stating their opposition to any ban on gas drilling in the New York City watershed that does not include compensation for Catskills landowners.
“The Catskill Landowners Association views... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
Huffington Post contributor Dave Colavito takes aim at Gov. Paterson's decision to spend $6 million on the Concord resort project.
The Concord project is on life-support, and that's being generous, considering it's been a year since any pulse has been... Read more
Mar. 3, 2010
Blacksmith Steve Kellogg, who teaches at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, recently taught a bunch of SUNY Oneonta grad students how to cast pewter spoons.
Of course in a class like this the pewter spoons are just the byproduct of the larger mission. ... Read more