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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Back in October, Mike Bemis was relieved of his job leading Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency without much of an official explanation. (Unofficially, thanks to an evesdropping Daily Freeman reporter, a few of the complaints made against Bemis came... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 10:16 am
Three cheers for Hazel Akerley, a cafeteria monitor who works at Liberty Middle School. In her time working at the school, she has saved two students from choking on their food by performing well-timed Heimlich maneuvers, according to a news brief in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 6:04 pm
The Times Herald-Record is reporting that a 59-year-old man who was living in a nursing home in Swan Lake was found dead outside on Sunday morning:
The frozen body of a man who was a resident of the New Swan Lake Adult Home was found dead early Sunday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Until February 11, Budget Travel Magazine is taking votes on which of twenty small American towns is the coolest. In the running: artsy, funky Phoenicia.
Two and a half hours north of New York City, this tiny town in the Catskill Mountains is a smaller... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 10:22 am
Remember that guy who stole the stuffed animal from the Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster? After the State Police blasted a photo of him out to the media, he turned himself in, the Daily Freeman reports.
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 5:53 pm
Warp drive: In the Roxbury Motel's new Final Frontier suite, a "window" peers into a skyful of shooting stars.
After months of hammering, sheetrocking, tiling and mood-lighting, the mighty fortress of fabulosity overlooking the East Branch in Roxbury is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 - 12:07 pm
This afternoon, Phoenicia will put the year's soggy unpleasantness behind it with a community party thrown by a group of local business leaders.
An outdoor Christmas party begins at 4:30pm on what has become the unofficial village square: the now wide-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 5:47 pm
All hands were on deck at the Kingston Fire Department last night, as a fire raged at the former St. Peter's Elementary School building on Adams Street. No one was hurt.
The Daily Freeman has video.
As does the Times Herald-Record.
Former alderman Richard... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 9:48 am
The New York State Police are conducting a manhunt for a grinch with a penchant for plaid and fingerless gloves who pinched a stuffed animal from a Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster last month. That's his photo above, taken by surveilance cameras at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 2:09 pm
This just in from the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain: Another rally opposing the 45 recent jobs cuts at the Ulster County ski resort is planned for noon on Monday.
Unlike the last Belleayre protest, which was held in Arkville three weeks ago and... Read more
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