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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 4:05 pm
Photo by Flickr user Michele Borioli. Published under Creative Commons license.
Joe Sicinski, who runs the food bank at the Andes Presbyterian Church, has a problem on his hands. He's still got plenty of things like canned corn, cranberry sauce and green... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 11:35 am
Photo by Flickr user Marion Doss. Published under Creative Commons license.
With emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle threatening to spread destruction across New York State's forests, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is getting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 4:32 pm
Photo: Excess water spilling over the Gilboa Dam at the Schoharie Reservoir. Image released into the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
At a public hearing in Kingston today, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection released... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 3:10 pm
Today, most of the Catskills region is under an official "excessive heat watch," according to the National Weather Service offices in Albany and Binghamton.
Temperatures are going to be in the high 90s for the next 24 hours, and for urban-dwellers and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 11:25 am
J.J. Pavese, erstwhile Democratic candidate for District 9's seat in the Sullivan County legislature, announced on Friday that he's dropped out of the race after failing to gather enough signatures to appear on the November ballot. If he had been able to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 6:42 pm
Photo of bluestone sculpture at Opus 40 in Saugerties by Flickr user Insignifica. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the Daily Freeman today: A letter from the supervisor of Saugerties announced today that the town is pulling out of an effort to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 12:53 pm
New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli paid Kingston a visit yesterday to congratulate Ulster County on saving its taxpayers money, thanks to its new shared-services program between town and county highway departments. From the Daily Freeman:
State... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 10:19 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the full story behind the panic-causing disappearance of Moische Dressner yesterday from his Jewish summer camp in Wawarsing. As it turns out, Dressner just didn't like camp, so he ran away. Bosch writes:
Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
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