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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 - 9:48 am
The New York State Police are conducting a manhunt for a grinch with a penchant for plaid and fingerless gloves who pinched a stuffed animal from a Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster last month. That's his photo above, taken by surveilance cameras at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 2:09 pm
This just in from the Coalition to Save Belleayre Mountain: Another rally opposing the 45 recent jobs cuts at the Ulster County ski resort is planned for noon on Monday.
Unlike the last Belleayre protest, which was held in Arkville three weeks ago and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Videographer and former Phoenicia Times columnist Dakota Lane is celebrating the holidays by going from business to business in Shokan, Olive, Phoenicia and Woodstock asking people to divulge their wish lists for the season. The result is a sweet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 9:09 am
Jennifer Kabat, who just started a new blog about Plattekill Mountain and winter life in the Catskills, finds a scrap of a Harlequin romance novel embedded in the snow on the Upper Face and traces the clue back to its source:
So how does a book get... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 3:28 pm
As we reported earlier today, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will be sending some new regulations for outdoor wood boilers (OWBs) to the state's Environmental Board for a vote on Wednesday.
This afternoon, the DEC published a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
A meeting of the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency's board got heated last week when a local dairy farmer chastised the IDA for not doing more to help struggling farmers. The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
[Sullivan County Farm Network] co-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 12:25 pm
Smoke from an outdoor wood boiler, by Flickr user Michael Hoy.
A surprise announcement that the New York State Environmental Board will meet this Wednesday to vote on regulations about outdoor wood boilers (OWBs) has the DEC scrambling once again to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 9:14 am
A grass-roots community teaching and learning cooperative is having its second meeting ever tonight in Andes, and organizer Laurie "Story Laurie" McIntosh is talking it up in the local newspapers. In an article on Saturday in the Daily Star, McIntosh told... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 1:42 pm
On Friday, town and village officials from municipalities along the lower Esopus, as well as the state Department of Environmental Conservation, met with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to talk about muddy water. Specifically, the... Read more
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