Ulster County
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:30 pm
The Catskills Cyclist reports that Ulster County is looking for input on its 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan. Naturally, he's hoping bicycles get mentioned in it:
The survey is pretty cool. It allows you to check boxes for Bike/Ped issues. One... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:23 pm
Social-media maven (and Kingston Neighborhood Watcher) Claudia D'Arcy was a little steamed that an Ulster County conference on promoting local business via social media didn't bother to hire a local:
Now, this has absolutely nothing personal against Brian... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The Ulster County distillery gets a nod in a recent Food and Wine roundup of best new American whiskies:
According to Tuthilltown Spirits, New York had upward of 1,000 farm stills before the 1919 ratification of the Volstead act made them all illegal.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, May. 9, 2010 - 3:09 pm
Surefire way to arouse the righteous ire of a newspaper type, in three easy steps:
1. Commit some mildly salacious act.
2. Make a ham-fisted attempt at covering it up.
3. When caught by a reporter, (a.) beg them not to write a story, and when that doesn't... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 4:13 pm
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks, 17... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 1:47 pm
The Iroquois Gas Transmission System's planned natural gas pipeline through the Hudson Valley will go through Ulster County, the Freeman reports.
The natural gas pipeline — which needs approval from, among others, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Never mind a movie theatre or a stoplight: The tiny Ulster County town of Denning is too small even to have a town park. That's about to change, thanks to local realtor Jennifer Grimes, who's looking for a few good dirt- and flower-wranglers to help put... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Truck, a three-day annual music fest that's been running in Britain since 1998, touched down on American soil last weekend for the first time. The venue: The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian.
Local music writer Tony Fletcher says he's "desperately hoping it... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 12:23 pm
A few weeks ago, Crossroads developer Dean Gitter was swearing up and down that state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wasn't holding up a key 2007 Belleayre land deal because of the hefty price tag, never mind what the New York Post had to say about it.
Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 2:57 pm
On the lam: A trio of alleged paving scammers accused of pulling a bait-and-switch on elderly homeowners around Ulster County. From the Daily Freeman:
Rodney Cooper, 48, Rodney T. Cooper, 28, and James Lambert, 45, are wanted on arrest warrants for... Read more
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