CATSKILL - Everyone wants local development in this area, but no one wants to live next to it. A plan to change a 18-acre site at 49 Vedder Road in Catskill from 10 mobile homes to 33 manufactured homes geared toward retirees aged 55 years and older called Moonlight Ridge is drawing opposition from the neighbors. Most opposing the plan quoted in a Daily Mail article are named Vedder. The engineer working on the project, Ewald Schwarzenegger, is opposing a new business next to his house in Cairo. A second Catskill Planning Board public hearing about Moonlight Ridge will be held at 7 p.m. July 28 in Catskill Town Hall, 439 Main St.

HUNTER - The Town of Hunter and Greene County Industrial Development Agency will split the cost of a wind turbine to power the town's landfill, and eliminate that cost and help the environment.

ALBANY - Tuesday a judge put on hold Gov. David Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor. Wednesday, The Appellate Division, Second Department, lifted the preliminary injunction preventing the appointment.