Ulster County expects to receive bids for repair of three washouts along the county-owned railroad tracks in the Boiceville area. Meanwhile, Rail Explorers, the rail bike company that has contracted to run tours along the Phoenicia-to-Boiceville tracks this summer, is considering alternate routes in response to concerns from residents along Cold Brook Road, originally intended as the last leg of the tours.
The citizens’ group Catskill Heritage Alliance petitioned the State Supreme Court in Kingston to vacate the recent decision of the Shandanken Zoning Board of Appeals in favor of the proposed Belleayre Resort, arguing that the developers should be required to obtain a variance.
Tiso’s Trattoria, the popular Mount Tremper restaurant, closed in December 2015 after five decades of operation by Joe and Marge Tiso. The eatery is about to reopen as The Pines under new owner Jeremy Bernstein, a Woodstock-born musician who performs as Burnell Pines.
“What Remains of Me” a finalist for the Edgar Award, given yearly by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA).
In 1973, Robert Konefal was a young chemist doing research for Nestlé’s but discontented with the corporate world. At the Pine Hill Arms, a historic boarding house in the hamlet of Pine Hill, he drank a good deal of vodka with the owner one night, and next thing he knew, he had bought the Arms.
Residents along the road objected to possible noise and disruption from the bikes owned by tour company Rail Explorers, due to start operation in late summer
As Roxbury writer Simona David points out in the introduction to her new ebook How Art is Made in the Catskills, our region has nurtured creative people from Washington Irving to John Cage, from Thomas Cole to Bob Dylan.
On High Point Mountain Road in the Town of Olive, several signs, posted to protest the activities of Ashokan Dreams wedding venue, were recently destroyed or damaged.
Residents of the Town of Olive are up in arms about Rail Explorers, the company whose contract with Ulster County will allow them to run tours of rail bikes down the Ulster & Delaware tracks alongside 39 homes on Cold Brook Road, near Boiceville, beginning in August or September.
After growing up in Woodstock and leaving to work for two decades as a bodyworker in California, Jory Serota has returned to his hometown, bringing a system called neuro-kinetic therapy that he combines with Iyengar yoga.