The DEC last year set about on a plan to completely revamp the whole trail system in the Kaaterskill Falls vicinity. In this first in a series of columns about the trail, we look at the history of one of the most popular natural destinations in the Catskills.
The Saugerties police converted a used ambulance from the Hurley First Aid Squad into a vehicle for its Special Investigations Unit using a $10,000 state grant. “This is the type of vehicle we could have used when we investigated the murders earlier this year,” says police chief Joseph Sinagra.
The Good Work Institute seeks to provide kindred spirits an ecstatic experience that fosters the communitarian vision. Could the sparks it sets off kindle a generational fire in the Hudson Valley?
“These are the only two houses in the village that pay village taxes and don’t have village services. This just doesn’t make any sense.”
A new ambulance contract, along with health and benefits increases for town employees, led to increased costs.
The new playground at Seamon Park is being designed with a natural look: logs instead of metal, and a slide that follows the pitch of the land. “I wanted to have a playground that was more natural and matched the landscape,” said Heidi-Jo Brandt, who heads the village playground fund.
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Though she won Ulster County, Democrat Zephyr Teachout lost to Republican John Faso in her bid for the House of Representatives from New York’s 19th Congressional District.
A county lawmaker says he’ll continue to pursue a complaint that county officials acted improperly when they sent out a taxpayer-funded mailing touting the virtues of a controversial ballot proposition, despite a finding by the district’s attorney’s office that the move did not involve “criminality.”
SUNY New Paltz announced that the number of confirmed cases on campus had risen to 12 as of November 7.