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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 - 12:11 pm
The Daily Mail has the details:
A 29-year-old Durham man died Wednesday night in an ATV accident on Cunningham Road, state police said Friday.
Earlier: Other recent ATV fatalities in the Catskills.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 4:25 pm
A slew of environmental groups are rallying to side with Pete Grannis, the erstwhile Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who was fired abruptly last night. The groups expressed their concern by releasing a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 10:00 pm
GrannisPete Grannis, the head of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was abruptly shown the door today by Governor David Paterson. Capitol Confidential has the scoop, and it's a doozy, with juicy inter-agency emails and lots of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 2:46 pm
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 11:36 am
An outdoor wood boiler, photographed by Flickr user julianmeade.
After a long, hot summer of discontent, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has given up on outlawing old outdoor wood boilers. The agency is rolling out regulations... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 11:36 pm
This just in from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office: A motorcyclist driving on Rte. 10 in the town of Jefferson this afternoon struck a guardrail and was ejected into a 40-foot ravine. The driver was 47-year-old Maurizio Segatto of Schenectady. He was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 2:52 pm
Christopher Palmatier, from the Otsego County town of Worcester, has been arrested by the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office for allegedly raping an underage girl.
According to a press release from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office, which you can read... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 12:51 pm
There's no doubt Monday night's historic, seven-candidate gubernatorial debate was great television. (God knows it was funnier than anything out of SNL lately.) But did it serve a greater purpose?
It says a lot about this year's bizarre race that the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 11:33 am
Government-hating Stone Ridge resident Richard Ulloa, who spent last year demanding trillions of dollars from various banks and government officials who had crossed him, is in jail again this week. Ulloa was arrested in June on four counts of mail fraud... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 10:03 am
In the second Saugerties fatality this week, 56-year-old Edward M. Hayes was found dead in his driveway, pinned underneath his own car. According to a press release from the State Police, Hayes was found yesterday afternoon:
The New York State Police –... Read more
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