Shandaken News

Billy McDowell of Shandaken has been appointed operations manager at the Emerson Resort & Spa.

Call it "Mr. Doom and Gloom" vs. "Mr. Brightside" in the race for the Second Ward Common Council seat, which pits realtor and attorney Jon Hoyt against incumbent alderman and Democratic Party pro Tom Hoffay.

Ulster resort promotes maintenance worker - Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper promoted Billy McDowell to operations manager.

SHANDAKEN -- Environmental groups worry that two years after the state announced a deal that would allow a major Catskill Mountains resort, 1,200 acres of environmentally sensitive land has yet to be protected.

Following a decision by Verizon to deactivate a pay phone on Route 28, in Big Indian, an area that has little to no access to cellular communications, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein persuaded Verizon to reverse its decision.

Nearly seven months after the $787 billion federal stimulus package was signed into law, less than 4 percent of the $50 million allocated for highway and bridge projects in Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties has been spent, despite the rush to pump cash into the sagging economy, state records show.

Last night I was visiting my daughter in her room when we noticed a bug crawling on her bed.

The Central Catskills Collaborative will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday to begin the development of the Corridor Management Plan for the nomination of a 50-mile stretch of state Route 28 as a Scenic Byway.

A Kerhonkson man drowned while tubing on the Esopus Creek Sunday. Shandaken police said the victim, Peter DeBaum, 58, fell from his tube in strong rapids near the Sleepy Hollow Campground in Phoenicia.

SHANDAKEN, N.Y. - A 55-year-old man is dead after a tubing accident on a Hudson Valley creek.

KINGSTON After a heated debate Wednesday evening, members of the Ulster County Legislature remain undecided about granting Crossroads Ventures a license to allow them to develop a crossing point between two of their parcels of land over a county owned railroad in the Town of Shandaken.

KINGSTON After a heated debate Wednesday evening, members of the Ulster County Legislature remain undecided about granting Crossroads Ventures a license to allow them to develop a crossing point between two of their parcels of land over a county owned railroad in the Town of Shandaken.

"Teachers retire, and become students." - Amos Oz Did you see the cloud shaped like a cashbox over Big Indian last Friday? A Letter Dear Local Explorer: A recent study at Stanford shows that speaking to your swimming pool keeps it cleaner! Even as little as one minute of conversation a day cuts down on the need for chemicals and filtration.

Workers are expected to begin ripping up and replacing a mile of pavement on Route 302 on Wednesday in the first road construction project in the region to be funded with federal stimulus money.

A Delaware County man has been charged with raping an underage girl in the Town of Shandaken, state police said.

Prefacing his announcement by rebuking the state Senate for its month-long standstill, on Monday Gov.

Shandaken town police Saturday arrested a Big Indian man on charges he hit a woman several times with a wooden bar stool in front of their 4-year-old daughter.

Four Pine Hill residents were arrested earlier this week allegedly for a string of burglaries in the Shandaken hamlet of Pine Hills and the Big Indian area, Shandaken police reported Friday evening.

Kiki Randolph, previously known by the last names of Godwin and Minervini before reverting to her maiden name, is sifting through papers in the classic Woodstock home she's occupied, on and off, since moving there at the age of three in 1930.

"Instead of following sports, I follow religion. Every day, I read the paper to see who's winning: the Christians or the Muslims." - Samuel P. Huntington Did you see the cloud shaped like a Mahjong coin over Pine Hill last Tuesday? A Letter Dear Monsignor Sparrow: I try to drink as little soda as possible, to leave a small carbonated footprint.