In case you didn’t know it, Tannersville on Greene County’s Mountaintop region now calls itself The Painted Village in the Sky. The transformation from an all-cash business locale which left Main Street a wreck every Sunday morning to a place where family businesses served the whole community was neither fast nor easy. It’s still not complete. But many locals, some of whom were once skeptical, are convinced the achievement is now within grasp.
If the Democratic candidates challenge the signatures of rivals, it could narrow the field, which increases the number of votes needed to win. What to do?
I got digitally impulsive last week. I read several stories about Cambridge Analytica and their use of people’s information, then completely jettisoned my relationship with Facebook.
Stargazing at Mohonk Preserve, Vernal Pool Exploration at Minnewaska, Sparrow’s Nest Spring Fling and more.
Pat Ryan steals a march on the crowded Democratic field by holding a “town hall” event as a candidate. But it’s still early, and the gun issue will play far differently outside of Ulster in November.
Pirate School in New Paltz | Solve a mystery at the Maritime Museum | Signs of spring at Mohonk | Goose at Kaatsbaan.
With more than 12,000 employees, the resulting health system, expected to become a done deal some time next year, will create an entity of approximately of a similar magnitude to the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMC), which two years ago added Kingston-based HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley to its system.
Thanks, Paul O’Neil; why 2nd Amendment exists.
Environmentalists, local governments and landowners’ associations don’t generally see eye to eye on local land issues. It takes a truly terrible idea to get them all on the same side and sending joint lobbying delegations to Albany. Something like, say, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal to reinvent the way state forest land gets taxed in the Catskill and Adirondack Parks.
SUNY Ulster’s latest southern foray has ended more with a sigh than a bang. College officials say there wasn’t enough interest in the Marlborough area to justify establishing a small satellite at a former grade school.