Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:24 am
Peter Applebome's Our Towns column made a foray upstate to see how the Rosendale Theatre Collective was doing in its quest to buy the town's much-loved theater. Quite well, he reports:
And almost immediately, as if by osmosis, the idea rose for the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2010 - 4:37 pm
Nearly 50 years (and four grandchildren) after the fact, a Woodstock local reflects on her 1962 illegal abortion:
They brought me to another doctor to verify that I had just had an abortion. Then they put me in a jail cell in the Bronx with a box of Kotex... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:44 am
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 11:35 pm
We passed this tattoo parlor's web 2.0 billboard on Rte. 28 outside of Kingston and had to snap a photo. Pat's Tats is definitely online and on Twitter, but so far, it's only got three tweets! Pat, we want more!
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 8:31 pm
The Ashokan Center has been forced to scale back somewhat on its ambitious plans for its new arts and environmental education campus in Olivebridge, the Woodstock Times reports. But founders Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are making the best of it:
Alas, Ungar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:44 am
Dramatic money worries are in the air today. In the Daily Freeman, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has a plan to save Ulster County $8.6 million with a hodgpodge of measures, including shutting down some local healthcare offices:
Among Hein’s cost-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 8:59 pm
From the Woodstock Film Fest:
HIGHER GROUND, which will mark the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Down to the Bone) is looking to hire local Hudson Valley crew members for May-June film production. Please note that this is a low budget... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 12:31 pm
No matter how you crunch the numbers on Ulster County's new middle-management union contract, it adds up to a huge lump-sum cash payout the county can ill afford. The contract -- the subject of a contentious meeting of the county Budget and Finance... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 9:47 am
Good citizens of New Paltz, take note: they've tried hanging dead vultures around to scare the live ones away in Florida, too, and the results were "mixed." From the Miami Herald:
The first few days they had it up there, oooh, it was eerie around here,"... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:03 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston mayor James Sottile and legislator David Donaldson are pushing for Ulster County to take over all Safety Net payments. (Ulster County is the only county in New York State that bills individual municipalities for the... Read more
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