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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 3:11 pm
On eBay: A 1956 clipping from Coronet magazine, with a long article about Catskills violinmaker Harry Stoughtenburgh.
50-plus years later, this probably still holds true:
In Ulster County, boys aren't encouraged to be luthiers.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 2:59 pm
State senator John Bonacic is stirring populist ire against the MTA payroll tax.
"The MTA is virtually useless to the overwhelming number of Orange County residents, and the MTA tax amounts to taxation without transportation," said Bonacic, whose... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 12:21 pm
Coyotes. You've got questions. They've got answers.
On March 4, SUNY Ulster and the Catskill Institute for the Environment are hosting a talk on coyote ecology, featuring a panel of local scientists.
The panel will include Dr. Roland Kays, Curator of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 10:48 am
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development named its new executive director at their meeting last week. Here's the press release: Catskill Center for Conservation and Development appoints Alan White executive director
White was... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 8:36 pm
Capital Region enviroblogger, truck driver and all-around mountain man Andy Arthur climbed Hunter Mountain yesterday--and came back down with some marvelous photos. Above: The Hunter fire tower looking like something out of an Ingmar Bergman film.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 - 10:09 am
The Daily Star reports that the site of a fatal accident in Davenport last week, in which a tractor-trailer ran off Route 23 and into a house, has been the scene of other crashes as well.
[Charles] Harford was driving east on Route 23 at about 5 a.m. when... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Galvanized by the mugging of a neighbor, a Kingston resident is organizing a community crime watch. The group held its first meeting today.
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 10:22 pm
Ulster Common Sense blogger Jeremiah snaps a picture of a horse tied to a parking meter outside Rosita's in Kingston.
This does raise a lot of questions. 1) Does the owner have to pay the same amount at the meter? 2) If the owner has a couple of drinks,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 - 9:56 pm
Developer Dean Gitter presented a revised plan for the Highmount resort to the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce this week. The Times-Union reports that the new design calls for fewer units.
"Crossroads' proposals have been literally all over the place,"... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 5:07 pm
That's what the Times Union says. Basement Bistro owner Damon Baehrel got a phone call about the prospect:
“They asked if we would be interested in hosting — of course I said yes — and they’re going to give me some possible dates,” Baehrel tells me. Given... Read more
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