Government
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 12:29 pm
The village of Fleischmanns has won a legal battle over its right to foreclose on a long-shuttered movie theater in the center of town.
On October 21, a five-judge panel of the Third Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 - 8:21 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 3:29 pm
In remarks Wednesday, following an election-day wave of Republican victory that swept the G.O.P. into power in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama offered an olive branch to the new legislators: Support for gas drilling.
The New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 8:41 am
Despite what looks like a victory for U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey in Tuesday's election, his opponent, George Phillips, isn't ready to concede, the Daily Freeman reports:
Matt Hutson, a Phillips campaign spokesman, said on Thursday that absentee... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 - 8:59 am
Yesterday afternoon, a man in a brown corduroy jacket and a "Halloween mask with horns" robbed a Key Bank on Chestnut Street in Oneonta, according to a press release from the State Police:
The New York State Police are investigating a Bank Robbery that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
The State Police are reporting that a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who walked into the woods alone on Monday has been found dead today in a 500-acre area off of Anbu Rd. in the town of Shandaken. There are no details yet about how Christopher Brennan died... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 11:49 am
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:36 am
From the Poughkeepsie Journal:
In Ulster County, with 99 percent of all districts reporting, Bonacic had 18,702 votes and Sager had 15,879, according to unofficial tallies. Bonacic carried Sullivan County by a margin of 11,545 to 7,541 and led with 100... Read more
By Gus Murphy on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:07 am
Cartoonist Gus Murphy, longtime veteran of the late Phoenicia Times/Olive Press, weighs in on the changing of the guard. (Or lack thereof.) You can catch more of Murphy's stuff in our digital pages; we don't have him on a regular schedule yet, but we're... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 8:35 am
Republican Chris Gibson took New York's 20th Congressional District by an 12-point margin, unseating Congressman Scott Murphy. The Daily Mail reports:
Chris Gibson, a retired U.S. Army colonel and Ichabod Crane graduate, unseated freshman U.S. Rep. Scott... Read more
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