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By wateradmin on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 - 12:30 am
Elly Wininger and Dorothy Greenberg during an installment of "Your Mother Should Know," Catskill Cabaradio's live advice Q&A with the world's wisest mother. Photo via the Cabaradio website. Four times a year, we are lucky enough to have a Cabaradio... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 - 11:54 am
State Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens announced yesterday, December 7, that the long-anticipated sale of a 1200-acre parcel of land near the Belleayre Ski Center to the state is at last going through. The Times-Union... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 - 9:25 am
As predicted, the Assembly joined the Senate in passing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax overhaul just past 1am this morning, Daily News reporter Ken Lovett writes. But it wasn't quite the same unanimous lovefest: Unlike in the Senate, where the vote was unanimous... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 10:10 pm
Just after 9pm, the New York State Senate voted unanimously -- 55 to 0 -- in favor of a sweeping overhaul of the New York State tax code. The new law increases the tax rate on single filers earning more than $1 million a year ($2 million for married... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 4:15 pm
Watch out: Flooding and/or snow could be headed your way tonight, depending on where in the Catskills you are. Eastern Ulster County is under a flood watch until early Thursday morning. A winter storm warning is in effect until early Thursday morning for... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 4:02 pm
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? As we start to experience the chills of a Catskills winter, questions like that (except maybe a little less tongue in cheek) become more and... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 - 12:04 pm
Image: Route 28 Scenic Byway map. From the Central Catskill Collaborative's Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan, September 2011. The Shandaken Town Board held its regular monthly meeting on Monday, December 5. Here's Watershed Post reporter Rusty Mae... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 - 7:13 pm
Tonight, December 5, the Ulster County legislature is scheduled to vote on the 2012 budget, including a decision on whether to transfer the county's publicly-owned Golden Hill nursing home to a Local Development Corporation (LDC). Transferring Golden Hill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 - 2:34 pm
On Wednesday, Ulster County Deputy Executive Robert Sudlow told the Daily Freeman that the enormous ravine that Tropical Storm Irene cut through Oliverea Road in Shandaken would open to traffic on Friday (today). You may remember this ravine from our... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 - 12:29 pm
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett reports this morning on a dozen signs that have appeared along Oliverea Road in the Big Indian/Oliverea Valley. The signs, which seem to have appeared today, announce that hunters have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement... Read more

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