Ulster County
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 11:27 pm
The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center in Kingston is looking to hire a new executive director. Big Gay Hudson Valley has a job description:
This person will be responsible for overseeing all operations of the Center, working with the Board to expand and promote... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 5:12 pm
It's been rough running a newspaper in the Catskills this week. A flaming power line took out the Daily Star's power for most of last night, causing significant delays to today's paper. The Star was able to report on its inability to report, however:... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 12:38 pm
We've always hoped to run that headline one day. (Hat tip to Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub.)
The Catskill Daily Mail is reporting that a trio of alleged copper thieves was caught red-handed in the act of stripping the piping from a house in Athens. Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 11:06 am
Kingston Happenings reports that the Kingston Natural Foods Market -- a new project from the folks behind the Kingston Natural Foods Buying Club -- is open for business, and getting ready to celebrate properly in a couple of weeks.
Right now the store is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Blue_Mtn_Photos gets a glorious may-blooming field in Saugerties framed just right. Posted in the Watershed Post photo pool on Flickr.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 9:19 am
Ulster County Democratic campaigner and political blogger Jeremy Blaber really, really doesn't want to see Julian Schriebman reelected as Ulster County's Democratic chair. So much so that he's offering $500 in cold, hard cash to any "serious Democrat" who... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 23, 2010 - 3:56 pm
An article in last week's Daily Freeman raised questions about whether U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey used federal funding for personal gain when he got $800,000 for sewage system improvements in the village of Saugerties, where he owns part of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 9:16 am
It's like pulling teeth to get people to speak up at a vital school budget meeting around here -- but mention cats, and suddenly everybody's got an opinion. The Freeman reports (with video!) on last night's contentious Common Council meeting, at which... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 10:51 am
Old Locomotive Gets New Life
Engine 407, a 1940s-era veteran of the Long Island Railroad and the Staten Island Railway, could easily have ended up on the scrap heap, Staten Island Advance reports. Instead, the little blue engine is getting buffed... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:40 pm
Fed up with a plague of feral cats in his neighborhood, Robert Senor, Democrat of Ward 8, wants to limit the number of cats per house in Kingston, the Freeman reports.
The alderman envisions a limit of between three and five cats, and his legislation... Read more
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