Recent heavy rains have outrun the ability of the storm drains on Market Street in Saugerties to handle the water, leading to short-term flooding on some village streets.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced this week the start of work to reconstruct and reinforce the historic Saugerties Lighthouse’s foundation and adjacent infrastructure which were damaged by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee and further threatened by Superstorm Sandy’s high water.

A Greene County man has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging four Saugerties cops attacked him after an apparent road-rage incident last year in the village.

The 20-megawatt solar array would be located at the intersection of Churchland Road and Churchland Ln.

The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office is recommending time in state prison for Connor Chargois, a Saugerties High School student who was caught, police said, with a cache of illegal guns and ammunition in his basement in February after making threatening social media posts.

Neighbors of a proposed horse riding academy off Glasco Turnpike packed a town planning board meeting to complain that the facility, given its close proximity to a residential and commercial area, would cause crowding, pollution and traffic problems.

Maurice Hinchey, the long-time Saugerties resident, assemblyman and congressman who died last November, was honored today with the passage of a bill to name the Saugerties Post Office for him.

The traveling replica of the Vietnam Wall will be coming to Saugerties July 19-22 for public viewing at Cantine Field.

Signs forbidding would-be bathers were removed from Saugerties village beach last Monday after Ulster County health officials declared the Esopus Creek free open for swimming after measured levels of fecal bacteria decreased to safe levels.