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Friday headlines
Feb 18, 2011 6:30 am
HTC supt. says Cuomo’s budget looks dim
Jim Planck of the Daily Mail has a piece about the school budget woes hitting Hunter-Tannersville in Greene County, where called the cut to state aid for schools — $1.5 billion — is “the largest proposed cut within the history of State Education.” And that's before they got to property tax caps... and more talk of possible district mergers and major services and teachers cuts.
Cops nab alleged firehouse burglars
It turns out the crimes of the recent holiday season were not systemic, or a new trend. Andrew Amelinckx in The Register Star reports that police have nabbed two men for burglarizing the Mellenville Firehouse: Robert E. Perez, an ex-con already facing felony charges after an alleged car chase in January, and Lellan Smith, a parolee who was recently arrested for the armed robbery of a Hillsdale convenience store.
Tractor trailer fire on Thruway
This is largely visual: a flaming truck on the side of the Thruway between exits 24 and 25 from Bryan Fitzgerald at the Times Union.
Dispute arises over legitimacy of sewer claims
Doron Tyler Antrim in The Daily Mail has a story about how some fines OK'd by the Cairo Town Board last month are now being questioned as a possibly illegal move. It all relates back to operating cost overruns based on shrinking budget shares for local municipalities.
Non-profit group seeks new image for Opus 40
Harvey Fite's bluestone masterpiece in Ulster County is written about in the Daily Freeman by Ariel Zangla-Girard after a political battle broke out on whether the town of Saugerties should have gotten involved in saving the cultural attraction. Now it turns out a new non-profit is getting $400,000 to help purchase the place, and fundraising is underway to make it a first class museum and tourist attraction. Still, some say government should have let it go...
Battling the giant hogweed
The Watershed Post blog has the best headline of the day with a piece by Julia Reischel about the state Department of Environmental Conservation's look to hire hogweed wranglers, particularly in the western half of the state, to eradicate the growing weed, otherwise known as wild parsnips.
Jim Planck of the Daily Mail has a piece about the school budget woes hitting Hunter-Tannersville in Greene County, where called the cut to state aid for schools — $1.5 billion — is “the largest proposed cut within the history of State Education.” And that's before they got to property tax caps... and more talk of possible district mergers and major services and teachers cuts.
Cops nab alleged firehouse burglars
It turns out the crimes of the recent holiday season were not systemic, or a new trend. Andrew Amelinckx in The Register Star reports that police have nabbed two men for burglarizing the Mellenville Firehouse: Robert E. Perez, an ex-con already facing felony charges after an alleged car chase in January, and Lellan Smith, a parolee who was recently arrested for the armed robbery of a Hillsdale convenience store.
Tractor trailer fire on Thruway
This is largely visual: a flaming truck on the side of the Thruway between exits 24 and 25 from Bryan Fitzgerald at the Times Union.
Dispute arises over legitimacy of sewer claims
Doron Tyler Antrim in The Daily Mail has a story about how some fines OK'd by the Cairo Town Board last month are now being questioned as a possibly illegal move. It all relates back to operating cost overruns based on shrinking budget shares for local municipalities.
Non-profit group seeks new image for Opus 40
Harvey Fite's bluestone masterpiece in Ulster County is written about in the Daily Freeman by Ariel Zangla-Girard after a political battle broke out on whether the town of Saugerties should have gotten involved in saving the cultural attraction. Now it turns out a new non-profit is getting $400,000 to help purchase the place, and fundraising is underway to make it a first class museum and tourist attraction. Still, some say government should have let it go...
Battling the giant hogweed
The Watershed Post blog has the best headline of the day with a piece by Julia Reischel about the state Department of Environmental Conservation's look to hire hogweed wranglers, particularly in the western half of the state, to eradicate the growing weed, otherwise known as wild parsnips.