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By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 - 9:54 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 New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 3:53 pm
While most of the nation's political middle seems to be going the way of the dodo, centrists hang on in NY's 24th Congressional district. Photo of hollowed-out tree by Flickr user joelogon; published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, former... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 10:45 am
People are getting mighty excited about gas drilling. An article on the business website The Street yesterday urged its readers to jump on the natural-gas bandwagon before it, er, "explodes:"
2011 is going to be the year for natural gas. Stories keep... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 2:55 pm
Oorah's BoyZone camp in Jefferson. Photo by Julia Reischel
The Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, reports that Oorah Inc., the company that owns a Jewish boy's summer camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, was the target of a noisy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 11:41 am
Photo: Excess water spilling over the Gilboa Dam, the NYC-owned dam with the greatest untapped potential for developing clean hydroelectric power. Image released into the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
After being courted for years by an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 10:11 am
Skiers at Belleayre. Photo via the Bellayre website.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise, in a show of some gumshoe reporting, has gotten a list of every single position slated for axing from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation this year.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 4:18 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A 30-year-old Franklin man named Preston E. Smith has been arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle and then using it to go hunting. The press release in full:
On November 22, 2010 Delaware County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 10:29 am
A tempest in a teapot is brewing today over the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation's looming layoffs. The Civil Service Employees Association, which is furious about the cuts and is considering a lawsuit, finagled a Freedom of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 10:04 am
A black bear crosses the road at noon in California. Photo by RickC, via Flickr.
There might be a rather large black bear roaming around Uptown Kingston today, according to the Daily Freeman:
City police were called to Stickles Avenue off Fairview Avenue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 7:19 pm
When you hit a deer, as so many of us have in the Catskills, your first worry is instant death and dismemberment, your second is for the cost of autobody repair, and your third, maybe, is for the deer. But last week, a 25-year-old man from Mount Vision... Read more
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