New Paltz school district faces tough budget decisions
Above: New Paltz Central School District offices in New Paltz. Photo by Robin Weinstein for The New Paltz Oracle.
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Ulster County offers Bread Alone key ingredient to stay in region
Bread Alone's Boiceville location. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In an effort to keep bread-manufacturer Bread Alone Bakery from relocating to New Jersey, Ulster County executives have offered it the needed dough to keep its ovens running.
Ulster County Executive Mike Hein announced on June 7 the retention and expansion of Bread Alone, which will add a 26,000 square foot building in the town of Ulster to accompany its production space in Boiceville, adding over a dozen new jobs to the area.
Hein met with Bread Alone’s owners in 2011 and convinced the expanding bread-makers to add a second facility in the county, an Ulster County press release said.
According to the press release, Hein used a state program called the Manufacturing Assistance Program, which “targets incentives for businesses gaining efficiencies in production,” to allow the business to qualify for $240,000 in aid becuase of its high-efficiency ovens.
Bread Alone qualifies for tax credits and tax exemptions becausee the project is expected to retain 45 jobs in Ulster County and create 14 more over the next three years.
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Cuomo's new plan for hydrofracking: Taking a page from the NRDC?
In today's New York Times, reporter Danny Hakim writes that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration is quietly pursuing an entirely new plan to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
Anonymous sources, including a senior Department of Environmental Conservation official, told the New York Times that Cuomo is seeking to limit the practice to areas where the Marcellus Shale formation is deepest, along the New York/Pennsylvania border.
Towns would also have to agree to permit hydraulic fracturing within their borders:
Even within that southwest New York region — primarily Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga Counties — drilling would be permitted only in towns that agree to it, and would be banned in Catskill Park, aquifers and nationally designated historic districts.
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Car accident in Franklin claims the life of Dutch student
Around 6pm on the evening of Friday, June 8, 23-year-old Machteld Klok was killed when the car she was driving struck a tree on Case Hill Road in Franklin, according to Sergeant Gary Leahy of the New York State Police.
Leahy said that Klok was driving downhill towards Route 28 when she lost control of the vehicle.
"The car lost control and was sideways when it hit a pretty big tree," he said. "The impact was right on the driver's side door."
Klok died at the scene, Leahy said.
Klok, a master's student in process engineering at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, was in the area to complete an internship project at the FrieslandCampina USA production plant on Route 10 in Delhi. She had been in the area just a few months, said FrieslandCampina HR manager Maryalice Butler, and was scheduled to return to the Netherlands and graduate from her program at the end of the summer.
"She was very well liked by her coworkers, she fit in very well with all of our staff," said Butler. "She had a very outgoing, generous personality."
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Letter to the Editor: Help Margaretville's American Legion Post rebuild from Irene
We've received a bunch of letters this month. Read them all in our letters section. To support the Margaretville American Legion Post's rebuilding efforts, send a check to American Legion Post 216, PO Box 41, Margaretville, NY 12455. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor,
As many of you know, the American Legion Post building at 903 Main Street in Margaretville was seriously damaged by flooding in August 2011. The Post members and volunteers have been working steadily to rehabilitate the building so that the Post can continue to operate and serve the community as it has for almost a century.
Tractors on parade in Callicoon
On Sunday, June 10, Callicoon hosted the 16th Annual Tractor Parade. At noon, over 250 tractors of all shapes, sizes and colors paraded down Main Street, and at the end of the day a chicken barbecue was held at the Delaware Community Center.
All photos and captions by Watershed Post correspondent Jason Dole.
Tractors came from miles around in many ways. This one, arriving on Route 97 over the bridge, may have been brought in on a trailer nearby.
Every inch of Main Street, Callicoon was packed with people watching 259 tractors roll through town.
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Ambulance driver responds to Route 28 accident involving his own family
Above: First responders on the scene of a three-car collision in Shandaken on Sunday, June 10. Photo by Robert Bolten.
On Sunday afternoon, Jesse Cowan was on duty as the driver of the ambulance for the Shandaken Ambulance Service. When a call came in about an accident on Route 28 at an intersection near the Emerson Resort, Cowan felt a twinge of anxiety. The accident was a head-on collision -- and Cowan's wife and four children were supposed to be driving on Route 28 that very afternoon.
"I looked at my EMT sitting next to me and said to him, 'Oh my god, my wife and kids were on their way home from Kingston," Cowan told the Watershed Post. "I was just like, 'Wow, I hope not.'"
Cowan, a 29-year-old heavy equipment operator for the town of Shandaken Highway Department, has been a volunteer firefighter for 12 years, but only began working for the Shandaken Ambulance service in the last year. Two of his four children are under the age of five. Cowan said that finding your family at the scene of an accident is a first responder's "worst nightmare ever."
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Fresh: Rosendale Guitars
Above: Jeff McCoy in his musician-friendly shop.
Jeff McCoy's been easing into opening Rosendale Guitars for a while now – he served his first customers in the shop at 378 Main Street in January, and got around to a grand opening on Cinco de Mayo. Even before that he was being discovered by a growing stream of musicians flowing into the shop, with its good smells of woodworking in progress, its wide, comfy front stoop and wide variety of guitars to fool around with.
The shop has been described in Ulster Publishing's Almanac as a “well-curated” experience. To find out more, you can 845-430-3950 or connect via the shop's facebook page.
WP: How is it that you became a guitar man?
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Hokey-Pokey across the Hudson breaks Guinness World Record
You know the routine – you put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in, and then you shake it all about – but there isn’t anything routine when you do it with a couple thousand other hokey-pokey enthusiasts.
On Saturday, 2,569 people did the Hokey Pokey across the Walkway Over the Hudson for more than five minutes, breaking a previous Guinness World Record for the longest line of dancers that was held for four years.
Above, we have a video from Jessica Vecchione, who attended the event. The goal, besides making the Guinness World Records, was to raise funds needed for a new visitor center for the scenic park operated by the New York State Parks Department, according to the Mid-Hudson News.
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VoiceFest's banners come together
Artist and Aikido sensei Harvey Konigsberg is in charge of designing the banners for this year's Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, which will bring opera stars and music lovers from around the world to Phoenicia in August.
Konigsberg is working with local schoolchildren on the banner designs, which will include lots of butterflies. Kerry Henderson, one of the organizers of the festival, sent us these photos of the artists hard at work.
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