The Latest News on Casino Developments in Catskills & NYS:
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In The Beginning: The Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills on track
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"Wasting no time, owners of a license to build a $1.1 billion casino in the Sullivan County town of Thompson, in the Catskills, have started preliminary work on the facility, which is one of three that have been licensed by the state."
Casinos provide hope for struggling towns - democratandchronicle.com |
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| Lovin Catskill Bagels: Craig Fleishman of the Monticello Bagel Bakery holds up two of the dozens of Heart Bagels sold on Valentine's Day at the Monticello Bagel Bakery. Not surprisingly, they sold out early. |
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Fixing The Republican Party in NY: Gibson hones GOP prospects and his own
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"U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson wants you to know that in the 23 months he has left on Capitol Hill, "my primary mission is to be the best congressman I can possibly be." But - and for the Kinderhook Republican lawmaker the qualifier is potentially huge - he is deploying a political team throughout New York to work his party's apparatus in the hopes of making the state's hard-blue ground a little more fertile for the GOP."
Shut out of state office, G.O.P. struggles to raise funds - capitalnewyork.com |
The Latest Kurly's Kommentary: 
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| The War on Sullivan County's Poor: Sullivan HEAP backlog may be tip of iceberg |
"'We are starting to look into what I am become aware of other issues and it is a little bit harder at this point, but it seems like the more and more things I'm looking at, that there are more and more problems,'Potosek said on Monday. 'We are immediately going to be looking into all of these things and are already looking into some of the SNAP (food stamp) processes and potentially having the state come down to assist us with training and other things.'"
Sullivan County Manager Appoints Acting Commissioner of DHFS - catskillchronicle.com |
Missing Presence Locally & Statewide: In Memoriam Ira Jay Cohen, 1944-2014
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| "Ira Jay Cohen leaves behind a long and storied legacy of public service, not just in Sullivan County and with NYSAC, but throughout the state. Through his participation in NYSAC, the county attorneys association, the NYS Treasurers and Finance Officers' Association and other statewide public policy organizations, Ira had a positive impact on the lives of a generation of county leaders. Ira passed away on October 26, 2014. All of us at NYSAC will miss his wisdom, his passion for public service, and his deep committment to our organization and our mission." |
| Local Educators Gone Wild:Teacher who performed oral sex on students gets six-month jail sentence |
"Stephanie Fletcher (left), a 29-year-old former biology teacher who pled guilty last year to engaging in sex acts with two students, has been sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation by Delaware County Judge Carl Becker, the Daily Star's Joe Mahoney reports. Fletcher will also be a registered sex offender."
Liberty Educator Arrested:Â Statement on the arrest of LCSD teacher - lcsdk12.org |
| Others Freeze in Sullivan County: Monticello opens temporary warming center; brutal cold on way |
"The director of the Sullivan County Federation for the Homeless, Kathy Kreiter, praised the emergency opening, announced Saturday by Village Manager David Sager, because there are no overnight shelters or official warming stations in the county. In a statement, Sager said the temporary shelter at Stroebele will be open throughout the week, because of the forecast of extreme cold and community need."
Warming stations open during frigid weather - except in Sullivan - recordonline.com |
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"Attempting to pinpoint when the first African-Americans arrived in Sullivan County, NY is considerably more difficult. There are a number of plausible scenarios, and the evidence supporting any one of them is sketchy at best. A stronger case can be made for the first man of African-American descent to own property there. It was almost certainly Phineas Booth of the town of Neversink". 
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