NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held on Proposed Local Law No. 13 of 2016, (A Local Law Amending The Code Of The County Of Ulster To Limit The Gifts That County Officers And Employees May Receive), on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 7:00 PM or as soon thereafter as the public can be heard, in the Legislative Chambers, 244 Fair Street, 6th Floor, County Office Building, Kingston, New York.

Shandaken, NY – It took a year but today the Ulster County Legislature announced that the final work to remove “The Strainer” and re-plant the embankment along the Esopus Creek in Shandaken has been completed.  “The Strainer” consisted of enormous tree trunks and other debris that washed downstream by natural erosion and flooding events.  In this case it created a deadly hazard in the Esopus Creek claiming the life of young tuber, Jordyn Engler in September of 2015.