Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 11:58 am
Should Ulster County spend over $700,000 on New York City subway ads, or on commercials on "Good Morning America?" High-falutin' consultants favor the first option, while local businesspeople favor the second, according to the Times Herald-Record, which... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 7:10 pm
JImmy Fallon, who hails from Saugerties, gets to be the face of the Emmys. Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 12:57 pm
That's the question for Allan Wikman, a Kingston resident who is going to spend 15 days in jail for refusing to budge during a January meeting of the Ulster County Legislature. Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 12:54 pm
A Woodstock yard abloom in bugleweed. (We think.) Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjs76/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Crews are out repaving the shoulders of 28 between the Woodstock turnoff and the town of Olive. The Catskills Cyclist is thrilled:
If you've ever driven this length of road you would have to agree that the shoulders were downright treacherous. If you... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:36 pm
It's May Day, otherwise known as Beltane, which good students of the Goddess know means it's time to have one hell of a party.
Mike Madsen is celebrating Beltane on his blog, the Kingston Progressive:
With a high density of immigrants from Ireland and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Not bad for a tiny little town that wants to revitalize its movie theater. From an email that the Collective sent out this morning:
We did it! Out of 362 projects across the United States competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant, the Rosendale... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 7:44 pm
From today's Daily Freeman:
In handing down the sentence, Ulster County Judge Donald Williams told Latourette "my only regret is I cannot do more to punish you."
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 7:16 pm
Sustainable Esopus dishes up some recent data from the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, and concludes that Esopus's dismal recycling rate (18.7 percent, compared to a 40.7 percent recycling rate across the county) is costing it serious taxpayer... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
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