Ulster County
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 21, 2010 - 3:23 pm
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has been working overtime to keep the good citizens of New York safe this week. On Saturday, he made an appearance in Kingston to warn his constituents of the dangers of cancer-causing sunscreen. (Oddly, in the video taken by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 10:16 pm
In the current issue of the Phoenicia Times: an "unscientific and sort of comprehensive" roundup of local websites, both official and otherwise. Kudos to the PT for giving a few local towns a much-needed poke in the undercarriage for their meager web... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 6:48 pm
The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality alert from Sullivan and Ulster counties from 1pm on Saturday to 1am on Sunday. Here's the text of the alert:
AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Mystery solved: It was a teenager with a scary-looking BB gun.
Earlier: Unspecified incident has Saugerties school in lockdown.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The Daily Freeman reports the Grant D. Morris elementary school opened again around 10:15 this morning, after being in lockdown in response to, well, something:
[Superintendent Seth] Turner said the lockdown stemmed from an 8:45 a.m. "incident" at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 - 12:35 pm
Councilman Jay Wenk took heat from an audience member at a meeting of the Woodstock Town Board last night for his longstanding habit of sitting during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance, the Daily Freeman reports. According to Wenk, he's not going... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2010 - 12:28 pm
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen is steamed about the state legislature's proposed budget cuts to programs that counties and towns are mandated by law to run. Specifically, Safety Net:
Both the Assembly and Senate plan to cut $100 million in this area... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 - 2:19 pm
At noon today, about 50 anti-gas-driling protesters hauled signs to the lawn in front of the Region 3 office of the New York Deparment of Environmental Conservation to call for a fracking moratorium. One of the speakers was New Paltz Central School... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 3:18 pm
"Fireshade": One of Drolma's masks. Photo by Andrew Hanenberg.
Music writer Tony Fletcher chronicles a bonanza of new stores in Phoenicia and concludes that the Ulster County village is "phriving."
The new digs include a cafe and market called Mama's Boy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 9:03 am
The Daily Freeman talks to a Phoenicia-based fishing tackle company which has lost big time because of the oil spill:
Owner Scott Greenberg said the full impact on his business, from sales to fishing in the five-state Gulf Coast region, won’t been known... Read more
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