Not to get ahead of ourselves, but it may be that the best thing about the 2012 Ulster County Legislature (to be elected next year) is that that there will be ten fewer legislators. Under charter ...

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I thought I had a pretty good year in 2008, but my old boss didn’t give me a bonus worth more than double my salary. Actually, he showed me the door. Greene County economic development chief Sandy...

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Ulster County Executive Mike Hein suffered the first major defeat of his 18-month administration last week when the county legislature decisively rejected the appointment of his nominee to head th...

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Few things are more pleasant than a ride up the eastern shore of the Hudson through farm country at twilight in high summer en route to summer theater at the Mac-Haydn Theater in picturesque Chath...

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I recall an exchange between then-assemblyman Bill Larkin and a businessman at an Orange County entrepreneurs’ convention some years ago. People were going around introducing themselves and such w...

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It’s good to live in interesting times, say the Chinese. And so we do. Next week’s annual school board election should prove most interesting, both in terms of candidates and budgets, We seem to b...

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