Archive for September, 2009

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Speech validates C-GCC

Speech validates C-GCC
Register-Star
The Daily Mail
Sept. 22, 2009
(Packaged with coverage of President Barack Obama’s Monday, Sept. 21 address at Hudson Valley Community College.)
President Barack Obama’s visit to HVCC won rave reviews at a Columbia-Greene Community College Board of Trustees meeting later in the evening.
C-GCC President James R. Campion said Obama’s visit to a community college in […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Tour of the Catskills a ‘climber’s race’

Tour of the Catskills a ‘climber’s race’
The Daily Mail
Sept. 21, 2009
One thousand bike racers and their friends and families visited the Mountaintop this weekend for the second Tour of the Catskills - a more than 100-mile, three-day race around Greene County’s peaks and valleys.
Event staff said 285 bikers participated, traveling from 15 states and four […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Teens stage fake kidnapping for YouTube

Teens stage fake kidnapping for YouTube
Charged with disorderly conduct
The Daily Mail
Sept. 21, 2009
CATSKILL — Four Cairo teenagers were arrested Sunday for disorderly conduct after staging a fake kidnapping in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Catskill.
The teenagers, who were all between 16 and 17 years old, said they were filming a scene for a movie to […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Students fail class period

Students fail class period
Change at C-A forces them to choose between athletics and clubs, which could hurt college admission, they say
The Daily Mail
Sept. 18, 2009
COXSACKIE — More than a dozen Coxsackie-Athens students spoke out at a meeting of the District Board of Education against a change in class period designation.
The new class period schedule implemented […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Seeley asks for patience as village economy grows

Seeley asks for patience as village economy grows
Village president tells seniors outlook is bright, but improvement will take time
The Daily Mail
Sept. 18, 2009
CATSKILL — Catskill Village President Vincent Seeley addressed the Senior Citizen Fellowship Thursday at the Rip Van Winkle Senior Citizen Center highlighting some continuing and upcoming projects around the Village.
Seeley discussed the Main […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Police probe yields arrest

Police probe yields arrest
Catskill man charged with selling crack cocaine after lengthy investigation
The Daily Mail
Sept. 17, 2009
CATSKILL — A Catskill man has been arrested by village police and charged with selling crack-cocaine from the Catskill Inn, according to the department.
Gerard McCarthy, 51, who police said has been living at the inn, was charged with criminal […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Parents cry foul over lack of athletes’ bus

Parents cry foul over lack of athletes’ bus
Many Athens students denied participation in sports, they say
The Daily Mail
Sept. 16, 2009
COXSACKIE — Parents in the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District expressed their ire Tuesday to the Board of Education, saying they feel marginalized from the district by the absence of a bus to Athens after sports practices.
Athens […]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Co-chairman sees Greene County YMCA in 2011

Co-chairman sees Greene County YMCA in 2011
Information meetings on project to be held today and Thursday
The Daily Mail
Sept. 16, 2009
COXSACKIE — Hugh Quigley hopes to open a YMCA in Coxsackie by 2011.
Quigley, who is a co-chairman of the YMCA Board of Directors, said he has already heard from a number of Greene County residents and […]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Village to study flooding conditions

Village to study flooding conditions
$5,000 allotment targets eventual solution to Riverside Avenue problems
The Daily Mail
Sept. 15, 2009
COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Village Board voted Monday to allot $5,000 to Delaware Engineering to assess and eventually solve flooding problems on Riverside Avenue.
Mayor Mark Evans said two particularly troublesome spots in the Village include the intersection of Riverside […]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Arrest sparks questions about site plan law

Arrest sparks questions about site plan law
Business owner baffled over citation
The Daily Mail
Sept. 15, 2009
CAIRO — Cairo business owner Joanne Lettieri was arrested by Cairo police outside her Main Street resale shop in August.
The building at 465 Main St. was a restaurant before it was acquired by Lettieri and turned into McBride’s Resale Shop nine […]

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