Ulster County

By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 5:55 pm
The Chronogram's Sari Botton profiles the Rosendale Theater Collective, the group that's seeking to buy the Rosendale Theatre from its longtime owner/operators, the Cacchio family. The collective has a lot of fundraising to do to meet their $600,000 goal... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 5:11 pm
That's what Ulster County comptroller Elliot Auerbach claims the proposed budget axe is going to do to Ulster County tourism revenue. (Ask not for whom the axe tolls: It tolls for Minnewaska State Park, the Kingston Senate House and the Walkway Over the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 9:15 am
The recently-founded Kingston Neighborhood Watch is getting a lot of interest from residents and local media. Here's an interview with cofounder Mike D'Arcy from the Kingston News videoblog. The group will be meeting on April 13 to hammer out their... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 - 11:18 am
Kingston Citizens is urging residents to contact their legislators to spare the historic site from the budget axe.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 9:12 pm
The Red Cross is staffing four shelters in Greene County: in Hunter, Freehold, Cairo and Athens. Details here. Shelters are also open in Ulster County: Kerhonkson, New Paltz and Hurley. If emergency resources are available in your town, please feel free... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Online ski magazine First Tracks ran a fantastic interview yesterday with Joe Kelly, founder and chair of the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain. The central Catskills region needs the ski area not only to survive, but to flourish. That’s why I became... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 5:13 pm
Liza de Guia, the one-woman force of nature behind NYC-based video blog Food Curated, wrapped up a three-part series today on locally raised ducks. In the series, she follows them from John Fazio's farm in Ulster County to Savoy, a New York restaurant... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Kingston Happenings profiles Sri Talla of the Kingston Pharmacy, a brand-new venture located in the former home of the Muddy Cup. Talla, who was born and raised in India and immigrated to the U.S. for his pharmaceutical training, said if a customer... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 9:53 am
The New York Times's Property Values real estate column features a house in Woodstock today: a converted 1861 church on the market for $879,000.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 10:35 pm
DEC biologist Carl Herzog is speaking at SUNY New Paltz on Thursday about the great American bat die-off. From the Hudson Valley Geologist: If you don't know, bats have been dying off in record numbers locally (and throughout the northeast) from a fungal... Read more

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