Shandaken
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 11:29 am
Britain's TRUCK music festival, which describes itself as "a village fete meets Woodstock with a cutting edge musical policy sharp as your suit," is coming to the Catskills next week for a three-day American show. They promise big things, including an... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:30 am
Last night, Ulster county legislators voiced their approval of the latest plan for a resort to be built near the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center by Dean Gitter, a developer with Crossroads Ventures LLC. The Daily Freeman reports that 27 legislators voted in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 3:29 pm
The Catskill Watershed Corporation announced several funding decisions: a $255,000 loan for the Maverick Health Clinic in Phoenicia to relocate to Boiceville, and $36,493 in reimbursement for a Greene County motel's septic system. Press release below.
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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010 - 1:25 pm
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen reports from a recent presentation by local developer Dean Gitter on the ever-changing plans for the Belleayre Resort.
After 11 years and 100 alterations to the project, you'd think the latest version would be a slam-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Online ski magazine First Tracks ran a fantastic interview yesterday with Joe Kelly, founder and chair of the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain.
The central Catskills region needs the ski area not only to survive, but to flourish. That’s why I became... 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 Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 10:38 am
Tony Fletcher finds an unexpected treasure trove of '70s music history in his basement.
It’s not like I don’t already have several boxes full of cassettes in the storage room behind my office, including tapes of my pre-pubescent bedroom band from back in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 - 1:05 pm
Where else does a "Grrls On The Town" day involve raw milk and Methodist Cabin Fever?
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 5:26 pm
Never mind dancing hamsters. This is what the internet was made for.
Mt. Tremper writer Tony Fletcher, whose jazz-to-punk history of the New York music scene, All Hopped Up And Ready To Go, came out last year, has teamed up with 8tracks.com on an online... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 5:25 pm
Gov. David Paterson's recent budget proposal includes a moratorium on land acquisition, but several major deals already in the works are progressing as planned. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports:
The state also will close on the Big Indian... Read more
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