After months of practice and perfecting their programs, more than 20 skating club members from Saugerties are ready to compete in the 2017 Empire State Winter Games that begin Feb. 3 in Lake Placid.
In 2015, Bill de Blasio’s Campaign for New York, since disbanded, was called to task for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars through upstate Democratic committees in a failed attempt to elect a Democratic state senate. One of those county committees, to the tune of some $350,000, was Ulster County. Some locals dared call the activity money-laundering, charges denied by county Chairman Frank Cardinale, who said his committee acted entirely within the law.
If Spectrum-Time Warner Cable is your Internet provider, the New York Attorney General says you might be paying for higher speeds than you’re getting.
The Saugerties Police Department is investigating a one-car motor vehicle crash that occurred on Rt. 32 in Saugerties, resulting in the death of a 22-year-old resident, who was the passenger in the car.
Town Supervisor Greg Helsmoortel confirmed this week that the Saugerties town ethics board is investigating allegations that a town department head pressured employees to participate in a 2015 Republican caucus in order to swing the party nomination to Helsmoortel.
Newly minted U.S. Rep. John Faso of Kinderhook works the chamber-of-commerce breakfast crowd like a campaigning politician. Which of course, he is.
New statistics for 2016 show considerable improvement.
Saugerties police arrested Casey L. Fellows, 32, of Rt. 9W, Catskill, on Jan. 25 and charged him with third-degree unauthorized
The Saugerties police chief cited changes in oversight of the task force and a worsening opioid crisis for the decision to assign one Saugerties cop to the task force full-time and a second on a part-time basis.
Josh McCormick, a 17-year-old senior at Saugerties High, is living and breathing robotics these days.