Government
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 10:27 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has been a busy bee lately. On Friday, it announced that it is opening 6,600 acres of city-owned land for recreational use, and on Saturday, Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record wrote an article... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 5:32 pm
Hunters aren't a protected minority just because they carry guns, a state appeals court ruled yesterday in a case involving a Sullivan County hunter who allegedly shot another hunter in 2009.
The case involves a hunter named Robert Robar who, according... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 5:23 pm
No, the sticker above -- which, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been spotted near public faucets around New York City lately -- isn't the work of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. It's part of a pretty slick anti-fracking campaign... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 8:55 am
Above photo from the New York State Police.
On Monday, three young Margaretville residents were stopped in the town of Middletown as they were driving a U-Haul truck, which, according to a State Police press release, turned out to be loaded with 60... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 12:16 pm
Above: Video of the aftermath of the Margaretville shooting, April 25, 2007.
Four years ago this week, Travis D. Trim, a 23-year-old parole violator, died in a shootout in a farmhouse on the edge of Margaretville that also killed State Trooper David C.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 9:23 am
A stretch of Route 23B in Cairo, by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
Unlike most upstate New York towns, the Greene County town of Cairo has never had zoning laws to govern where and how development is carried out. But for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 8:27 am
Radar image of severe thunderstorms over eastern New York and Pennsylvania at 8:20am. Via the National Weather Service, Binghamton station.
It was a wild weather night for much of the Catskills region. Here in Andes, wind and rain reached a fever pitch... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 7:45 am
From now until 8am, watch out for thunderstorms so fierce that they might produce tornadoes in Sullivan County, according to NY Alert:
The National Weather Service In Binghamton Has Issued A * Tornado Warning For... Sullivan County In Central New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 10:42 am
The Esopus fire department's impressive home in Ulster County. Photo via the Esopus Fire Department's website.
On Sunday, the Times Union dared to ask a troublemaking question in an editorial: In this era of budget-slashing, should we be cutting back on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 2:36 pm
Two drivers in two counties took the hit-and-run to new places this past weekend.
The first, a 20-year-old Narrowsburg man, reportedly hit a guardrail on Gables Road in the town of Tusten on Saturday, and then drove off. Not only did Victor J. Chmura... Read more
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