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Local headlines February 8, 2011
Feb 08, 2011 6:25 am
Onteora schools adopt three-hour delay plan
The Catskill Mountain district has used up all its snow days plus three of its spring vacation days... meaning that from here on in, they'll be simply delaying the start of school in most cases. Look for this to become a trend.
Roof buckles under snow, ice
It may not be as bad as the collapsing barns that have killed cows and chickens throughout the area, or the partial collapse of the sports center up in the Adirondacks, but the buckling of the roof at Pulver’s Glass and Bicycle property on Green Street in Hudson, next door to the Chinese buffet, seriously hinders an almost century-old local business.
Fire reveals pot harvesting operation
After being called in for a house fire, authorities found that the former Baldwin Flowerland property in New Baltimore was the site of an extensive marijuana harvesting operation involving 700 plants, with ownership by a local man and another from Hudson. File this one as a new agriculture story?
What could it be?
Gossips of Rivertown has up a great collection of images of the Hudson Correctional Facility, in the news as one of ten state prisons possibly set for closure, back when it was first the Women's House of Refuge, and later the New York State Girls' Training School.
RPI revives business incubator program, now called Emerging Ventures Ecosystem
Talk about the power of modern semantics... the Albany Business Journal has a piece on the development of an alumni-backed angel investment fund that plans to underwrite startup grants for new businesses and ideas to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000... to create better economic ecosystems, it seems.
The Catskill Mountain district has used up all its snow days plus three of its spring vacation days... meaning that from here on in, they'll be simply delaying the start of school in most cases. Look for this to become a trend.
Roof buckles under snow, ice
It may not be as bad as the collapsing barns that have killed cows and chickens throughout the area, or the partial collapse of the sports center up in the Adirondacks, but the buckling of the roof at Pulver’s Glass and Bicycle property on Green Street in Hudson, next door to the Chinese buffet, seriously hinders an almost century-old local business.
Fire reveals pot harvesting operation
After being called in for a house fire, authorities found that the former Baldwin Flowerland property in New Baltimore was the site of an extensive marijuana harvesting operation involving 700 plants, with ownership by a local man and another from Hudson. File this one as a new agriculture story?
What could it be?
Gossips of Rivertown has up a great collection of images of the Hudson Correctional Facility, in the news as one of ten state prisons possibly set for closure, back when it was first the Women's House of Refuge, and later the New York State Girls' Training School.
RPI revives business incubator program, now called Emerging Ventures Ecosystem
Talk about the power of modern semantics... the Albany Business Journal has a piece on the development of an alumni-backed angel investment fund that plans to underwrite startup grants for new businesses and ideas to the tune of $50,000 to $150,000... to create better economic ecosystems, it seems.