Government
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 2:30 pm
In today's Daily Star, Patricia Breakey reports that the Delaware County Board of Supervisors has found an interim occupant for the position of Stop DWI coordinator left vacant after the controversial dismissal of Lisa Barrows last month.
Barrows's job... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 8:25 am
A bitter dispute between former Governor David Paterson and Greene County over whether or not the county had the authority to appoint an interim treasurer -- which had resulted in the withholding of millions of dollars in state funds to the county -- is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 11:32 am
Joe Martens: Photo via the Adirondack Park AgencyYesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his choice for the head of the embattled New York Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency that has burned through two chiefs in three months, will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 8:34 am
The Freeman reports that the Woodstock Town Board has renewed a policy that empowers the Board to discourage general municipal mayhem, in order to "keep town meetings from becoming debate sessions among members of the audience and extending past midnight... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Not a minute too soon: Soggy, soggy Delhi is joining nine other communities across the country in a pilot project to map flooding data.
Locally, the study is being sponsored by the USGS and the Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District. The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 2:14 pm
Rally to Save Belleayre Mountain from Fred Margulies on Vimeo.
Chanting "We are Belleayre, We are Belleayre," 150 people gathered before a podium at Belleayre Mountain on Friday to protest layoffs at the state-run ski resort ordered by the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 11:52 am
Hate Crime in NYS 2009 Annual Report:
Last week, we reported that a gay artist in the sleepy hamlet of Pine Hill was possibly the victim of a hate crime when his house was torched on Thanksgiving. If it turns out that the arson was attacking... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 10:15 am
According to a press release from the State Police, the sale of a stolen handgun in Saugerties on New Year's Day was interrupted when the gun went off.
Reportedly, a bullet struck one man, who ended up at Columbia Memorial Hospital with a non-life... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011 - 10:18 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 - 4:49 pm
George HolbertNineteen-year-old George T. Holbert was arrested in Sidney on Tuesday after he allegedly rammed his snowmobile into the back of someone else's vehicle during an argument. The State Police, who reported the incident today, characterized the... Read more
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