Ulster County
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 11:44 am
Conservationist Dennis Schvejda, who lives in the New York City watershed area, says that he just got a letter from the Catskill Watershed Corporation offering to pump out his septic tank, conduct a dye test on it, and replace any of its broken parts. For... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 9:19 am
In the Times Herald-Record today: State Supreme Court judge Mary Work has deemed developer Joel Hoffman unfit to continue to manage the famously decrepit Nevele Hotel, and given the property to Hoffman's former business partner, Mitchell Wolff.
In her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:46 pm
The Watershed Post interviews George and Duane LaFever, Catskill maple syrup producers.
It's the peak of New York's annual maple festival, and local tappers are saying the maple syrup yield in the Catskills is worse than it's ever been.
An evaporatorSugar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Maria at New Paltz Gadfly would rather not see the New Paltz P.D. packing Tasers.
In order for Taser use to be warranted and effective, a target ideally would be middle aged, of normal build, good health, and sitting down. You would point the taser at... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 - 4:36 pm
If you're in Kingston, and your barroom pickup lines usually involve something about the width of your backside cache, you might want to head down to Keegan Ales at 5:30. The Kingston Digital Corridor is whooping it up beer/geek style in what's becoming a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 5:02 pm
The Daily Freeman reports the town of Ulster is considering evacuations along Orlando Street because of Esopus Creek flooding.
The Ulster County Red Cross will be opening a shelter in Kingston at 6pm.
Below: Live updating graph from NOAA of water levels... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:55 pm
Last week's public meeting about the Partition Street development project in Saugerties is still prompting reactions. Peter Solow of Saugerties has published a public comment on the Saugerties Citizens for Smart Development website in which he suggests... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:50 pm
It's become an annual tradition for high school students from New York City and its upstate watershed communities to get together to talk about the science and policy of the NYC watershed. Last week, the Ashokan Center hosted 30 students from John Bowne... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 2:28 pm
It's maple syrup season in the Catskills, and everybody's getting into the spirit. Last Saturday was the first day of Maple Weekend, when local producers of maple syrup and maple sugar throw open their sugar house doors to tourists. (The festival pours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 11:40 am
March flowers: Female flowers of the silver maple, Acer saccharinum
In 1922, T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month. Since then, global warming may have pushed the ficklest season’s sweet torments into March. As of last weekend, it’s officially spring... Read more
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