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Letter to the Editor: The Unprofitable Catskill Mountain Railroad Company, Inc.

By WP Newsroom
5/10/13 - 9:39 am

Dear Editor:

The Catskill Mountain Railroad Company, Inc. (CMRR) Is a for-profit company. It was organized in 1983 to make money for its owners. Its main asset was a lease of the rail line from Ulster County. The goal of the company, as I understand it, was to make money by running trains, both passenger and freight.

Like many start-up companies it has failed to realize the profitable dreams of its founders. And like many start-up companies, it appears that the CMRR was undercapitalized from the start. It never did make the investment in the road bed, capital equipment or marketing that would allow it to achieve what its investors hoped it would.

Also, like many start-up companies, Catskill Mountain Railroad Company, Inc. has depended on people working for little or no pay. It is not, and never has been, a non-profit working for the public good. Sometimes people work for stock in a start-up, hoping that someday the shares they were paid would soar the way Facebook did, or Google. Sometimes, like the boys who whitewashed Tom Sawyer’s fence, people work for no pay because they are playing not working. Read more

Letter to the Editor: Let's do a bike trail

By WP Newsroom
5/3/13 - 11:18 am

Dear Editor:

I'm a 71 year old survivor of thyroid cancer.

Two years ago I joined 500 people bicycle from Buffalo to Albany in eight days. Along the way we patronized restaurants, discovered villages and historic sites and found places we would return to one day. And I got the exercise I needed to keep my weight down.

That annual ride had brought riders to the Erie Canal corridor for more than a decade.

We could have similar success with a bike trail here. Lets do it.

Irwin Rosenthal
Woodstock, NY

Town gas bans can stand, appeals court rules

By Lissa Harris
5/2/13 - 11:41 am

Two upstate New York towns that faced lawsuits over their gas drilling bans have won in appeals court, delivering a major victory to proponents of town "home rule."

The towns of Dryden and Middlefield faced separate lawsuits seeking to overturn their drilling bans: Dryden from an out-of-state gas company, and Middlefield from a local dairy farmer seeking to lease her land. Both towns prevailed in lower court, but the cases were appealed by the plaintiffs.

On Thursday, the state appellate division upheld both of the lower court's judgments. Gannett reporter Jon Campbell reports the news for Politics On The Hudson, and notes that the verdict is likely to stand: Read more

Thanks for all the photos!

By Julia Reischel
5/1/13 - 9:42 am

Above: "Fiddleheads", May 8, 2012, at Frost Valley YMCA, by Robin White. Just one of the 60-odd photos submitted to our photo contest.

Wow, you Catskills folks take a lot of photos.

Submissions from across the Catskills poured in last night to our 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest. At midnight, when the contest ended, we had a total of sixty-something entries. (I'm not sure of the exact number because of duplicates.)

You can see all of the final entries on our Facebook page, on the Central Catskills Great Outdoor Experience Festival's Facebook page, and on our Flickr page. If you see a missing or duplicate photo, let me know! Read more

Last day to submit your photos to the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest!

By Julia Reischel
4/30/13 - 11:46 am

Above: Just some of the entries in this year's Catskills Outdoor Guide photo contest, as pictured on our contest Flickr group.

The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013. Thanks! Read more

Train wars: Kingston parks dump truck on railroad track

By Lissa Harris
4/29/13 - 4:18 pm

A City of Kingston dump truck blocks the Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks near the Washington Avenue intersection in Kingston. Photo taken Saturday, April 27; courtesy of the Catskill Mountain Railroad.

A City of Kingston dump truck recently appeared on the tracks of the Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) in Kingston, blocking the railroad.

The bizarre standoff was the latest showdown in an ongoing battle over the future of the old Ulster and Delaware rail corridor -- with the railroad on one side, and Ulster County Executive Mike Hein and a group of local trail advocates on the other.

Last October, Hein unveiled a plan to put the Kingston end of the CMRR's line out of service, sell most of the county-owned railway tracks for scrap, and build a trail for walking and biking along the rail corridor. The city of Kingston has sided with Hein -- and come out swinging against the railroad. Read more