"The Catskills: Always In Season."

Get ready to see it on bumper stickers, billboards, ad campaigns, and anything else a bunch of marketers can think of. That's the slogan that got Arkville's Jenn Nolan $1,500 from the Catskill Park Resource Foundation on Saturday, in a contest to come up with a new brand for the Catskills region.

According to a press release picked up by the Daily Freeman and the Daily Star, 733 people cast votes online in the contest -- which, if you figure that there were 3,714 slogans entered, probably means that not everybody who entered bothered to vote. But Nolan's emerged as the clear winner, with just over 44 percent of the vote.

The four runners-up:

"The Catskills: Time For An Altitude Adjustment"

"Find Yourself In The Catskills"

"The Catskills: So Near, Yet So Far Out"

"The Catskills: Peaks Of Perfection."

The Daily Freeman reports that 80-year-old Dorothea Denman, former owner of the Olivebridge Florist, was struck by a car and killed Friday afternoon on Route 28 in Olive, near her home at 9 Sunkist Lane.

From the Freeman's story:

The accident, which happened at 1:15 p.m., took place in front of Denman’s home and next to her mailbox, he said.

Tedd Denman said his mother would often go out to gather flowers near the road.

“She loved them. They were her life,” he said.

New York State Police did not respond to a request from the Watershed Post for more information, saying only that they were working on a news release. But investigator Peter Kusminsky told the Freeman that no charges have been filed against the driver of the car, 73-year-old Lea Ceria of New York City.

Above: Ulster County executive Mike Hein at the county Department of Public Works substation in New Paltz, flanked by county legislators Ken Wishnick and Hector Rodriguez. Photo courtesy of Hein's office.

Today, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein signed into law a bill by the Ulster County Legislature banning the use of "frac brine" -- the wastewater that is a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing -- as a de-icer on county roads.

The bill was passed by the county legislature in July. Earlier in the year, Hein also issued an executive order banning the use of frac brine on county roads.

In addition to banning the use of brine on county roads, the law requires bidders on relevant county projects state that fracking brine is not used, and imposes both civil and criminal penalties on violations of the ban. If convicted under the law, contractors that spread brine on county roads could face fines of $25,000 per incident and up to 15 days in jail.