Sentences with phrase «upstate town of»

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charters.

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo...

So against Katherine's advisement, David and Emily move from New York City to the small upstate town of Woodland, where neighbors are separated by menacing forests that contain dark, foreboding caves.

Stringer's amicus is in support of the upstate town of Dryden, which two years ago banned fracking under a local «home - rule» provision.

Keith Johnson, 46, was pronounced dead after he was found Sunday in a wooded area in the upstate town of Shandaken in Ulster County.

Not exact matches

A small lakeside town in upstate New York is fed up with Bitcoin miners using up so much of its low - cost electricity.

As expected, state gaming regulators on Tuesday approved a casino license for the Tioga Downs Casino in the town of Nichols — adding a fourth casino to upstate New York.

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said.

It's a story all of us should be paying attention to — especially with another upstate town, Petersburgh, now facing contamination fears as well.

Some pieces of the old bridge will escape the crushers and furnaces and be trucked to upstate towns looking to save thousands of dollars on their own bridge projects.

Demographically the state overall has shifted more Democratic, but the upstate region remains heavily Republican, save for pockets of Democratic strongholds in urban areas and college towns.

Or any other number of impoverished small towns all across upstate.

While the Catskills town of Prattsville was virtually wiped off the map and more than 500,000 people lost power on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions upstate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducted separate helicopter tours of damaged areas across New York, garnering glowing reviews in local papers.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

The push for a tax cap seemed to come from two fronts: upstate lawmakers who were wondering why Mr. de Blasio didn't have to scrimp and save to stay under the property tax cap the way their towns do, and downstate politicians from parts of the city where homeowners say they are fed up with increasing property tax bills.

[3] The town is named after Paul Busti, an official of the Holland Land Company, but its pronunciation uses a long i sound at the end, a frequent alteration in the names of several upstate New York towns.

A study of 2012 data that group commissioned showed $ 253 million in economic impact for upstate towns along the existing Erie Canalway Trail, which finally would be completed under the governor's plan.

The dream of every resident of every crumbling upstate town is to bring its potential in line with its reality.

We all want to live in a cow pasture next door (about 25 miles from next door actually) to those run down falling apart heaps that pass for «towns» outside of the cities upstate.

A popular snowmobiling route located in one of the prime snowmobiling areas upstate was slated to be closed this winter, due in part to hard feelings between the property owner and the town of Redfield in Oswego County.

As a working teamster running for governor, I believe that state government ought to raise the living standards of working New Yorkers, especially in struggling upstate cities like Rochester and my home town of Syracuse.

Abundant gas has drastically lowered the price of gasoline nationwide and many New Yorkers upstate saw fracking as a way to revive their moribund towns and cities.

In Depew, near Buffalo, on Tuesday, Mr. Clinton provided an extemporaneous laundry list of her efforts upstate, including a partnership with eBay that trained craft makers in mill towns on the Erie Canal to sell their goods online, and efforts to transform a vacant car dealership in Buffalo into an artist's work space, funnel federal funding to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and protect the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

The Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack filed a lawsuit against the state board that in December selected Lago Resort & Casino just off the Thruway in the Town of Tyre as one of three recommended sites for an upstate casino.

Unlike the faded main drags of so many upstate towns, the quaint storefronts along Market Street are bustling, buoyed by the six - figure average salaries of company employees.

Residents of the small town of Hoosick Falls in upstate New York are trying to cope with a polluted water supply.

Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter (D - NY)-- whose district covers the town of Salina, DeWitt, Onondaga, the village of East Syracuse, the Onondaga Nation Reservation and the Eastside and South Side of Syracuse — said bringing ride - hailing services to upstate would have four main benefits: create jobs, promote the tourism industry, provide new transportation and encourage public safety by reducing drunk driving.

Rep. Tom Reed (R - Corning) is one of the few members of Congress from upstate New York to hold in - person town hall meetings.

Town halls across upstate New York are seeing a steady stream of residents paying their 2018 town and county property taxes before the end of 2Town halls across upstate New York are seeing a steady stream of residents paying their 2018 town and county property taxes before the end of 2town and county property taxes before the end of 2017.

Why, then, should NYS force upstate towns to house criminals from NYC but deny them the benefits of doing so?

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said Thursday.

Gov. Paterson jetted off to Washington yesterday, deep - sixing a scheduled town hall meeting in upstate Broome County in favor of a photo - op with President Obama.

Named for a town in upstate New York, coxsackievirus is one of the culprits behind hand, foot and mouth disease, a common childhood illness.

The natural radioactivity of the Marcellus Shale has caused concern since the mid-1980s, when high levels of radon gas were found in the basements of homes in Marcellus, a town in upstate New York, where the shale reaches the surface.

Traveling upstate to Beacon, New Paltz, Cold Spring and all the cute little surrounding towns is one of our favorite things to do in Spring / Summer / Fall.

It's fun to explore all of the small towns of upstate NY, and it's even more fun to be comfortable while doing so.

Right off the bat, Megan is flimsily depicted as a familiar byproduct of a broken family, living a dead - end life in a small upstate New York town.

In a small town in upstate New York, the First Reformed church — about to celebrate its 250th anniversary — holds the distinction of being the oldest continually operating church in Albany.

De Niro (Meet the Fockers, Shark Tale) plays New York psychologist David Calloway, who moves with his traumatized daughter, Emily (Fanning, Man on Fire), to a small town upstate after the tragic suicide of his wife, in the hopes that the change of scenery will break her back out of the shell she is in.

Breathe In / U.S.A. (Director: Drake Doremus, Screenwriters: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones)-- When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

The story tracks two dimwitted small - town deputies (Jake McDorman and Martin Starr) assigned to locate and transport a prison escapee (George Sample III) in the woods of upstate New York, where they're persuaded by accounts of his possible innocence.

A conflicted man of the cloth (Ethan Hawke, doing the best non-Linklater work of his career) tends to a small - town chapel in upstate New York, a megachurch - sponsored relic of better, holier days.

Drowning Mona introduces us the small, white trash town of Verplank in upstate New York.

On Dangerous Ground — Odd little Nicholas Ray noir with Robert Ryan as a cop so close to the borderline of police brutality that he gets sent upstate to help solve a murder in a small town.

After a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed.

But without its once - prosperous furniture factory, which reopened a couple of times in my early boyhood only to shut down a few months later, Chichester was just another dying upstate mill town.

Much of your fiction has been set in small, struggling upstate New York towns not unlike your childhood home of Gloversville.

This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released.

Quirky and bold, Lauren Groff's debut is both the story of an individual — Willie Upton, who has been told that her father isn't the person she thought he was — and a town: Templeton, in upstate New York.

From the hick towns of upstate New York to the rampant, muggy forests of the Hudson River Valley, Clint and company match wits with America's worst young minds.