A new text-alert system can reach 800 residents in 20 seconds. But most of our rural Catskills towns are sticking to the old ways. We have our own systems, official and otherwise, for making sure our neighbors are okay. Popular forms of official disaster response include “driving over to check on that old guy down the road,” “not having town email addresses,” and “it’ll be fine, people are tough around here.”
Dozens of warnings about the Florida school shooter went unheeded. Local officials aren’t taking any chances. But is it possible to be too vigilant?
Driving warily these days? Been hearing any horror stories about potholes and the damage they do?
If my nine-year-old is going to have to walk past a cop every morning to get into her school building, I’m glad it’s Sheriff DuMond they’ll be reporting to. But my first thought was: This is not what I signed up for.
The president of the corporation that owns property adjacent to Riccardi Elementary writes to explain his side of a disagreement surrounding the creation of an emergency access road for Riccardi Elementary School.
When the email invitation came from David Byrne, best known for fronting the hit band Talking Heads (“Burning Down the House”) in the 1980s, native Woodstocker Simi Stone was so ecstatic, she cried.
Moved by the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida where 17 people died at the hands of teenager, the Onteora Central School District will hold a Community Forum on safety at district schools at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in the Middle/High School auditorium at the Boiceville campus.
The Shandaken Tunnel, which carries water from the Schoharie Reservoir in Greene County and pours into the Esopus Creek, will be closed for March and April.
The recent mass shooting at a High School in Florida that killed 17 people — most of them children — necessitated Onteora District School officials to review school safety at their February 20 Board of Education meeting at the Middle/High School.
A draft Open Space Plan for the Town of Hurley, worked on by the Hurley Conservation Advisory Council and consultants over recent years as called for in the town’s Comprehensive Town Plan, adopted in 2006, will be presented in a public information meeting at Hurley Town Hall in Old Hurley at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 1.