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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Black bear cub. Photo by Alan Vernon, via Flickr.
According to the New York State Department of Conservation's 2010 hunting numbers for bear and deer, which were released yesterday, the Catskills are the place to go if you're hunting black bear. Three... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Sullivan County farmer Bob Franklin has been making headlines lately -- for expanding his dairy operation at a time when many dairy farmers are in dire straits. (And for getting a visit from Congressman Maurice Hinchey, seen above admiring one of Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 11:00 am
The Daily Freeman is reporting that a car ran head-on into a tractor-trailer on Rte. 28 yesterday afternoon in the town of Ulster. The paper reports that a 65-year-old man heading westbound drifted into the oncoming lane and caused the accident. The man... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 10:06 am
In the wake of a merger with Community Bank System, a banking company based near Syracuse, the Oneonta-based Wilber National Bank has announced they're making 63 layoffs. The Daily Star reports:
Monday's announcement "slammed" the dedicated employees of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 8:23 am
Amazing story in the Freeman today about Antonio Flores-Lobos, the editor of the Daily Freeman's Spanish publication Las Noticias, who stopped a suicidal woman on the Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge on Friday just as she was about to jump.
The story is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 4:34 pm
Continuing a trend of loosening its tight grip on access to boating on its Catskill reservoirs, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is co-sponsoring a triathlon on the Cannonsville Reservor this June, in what tourism organizers hope... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:29 pm
For most of us, the arrival of the first buds of early spring is a welcome sign that winter's on its way out. For an ecologist, every unfolding blossom is a data point. By making careful records of when each plant begins to bloom, scientists hope to paint... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:14 pm
The Daily Star, which was one of the sponsors of Saturday's Regional Spelling Bee, reports that 12-year-old Tatum Kiff from Sidney Central School won a trip to Washington, DC. She'll compete against other kids from across the country in the Scripps... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 10:08 pm
If so, it'll be the first since 2006, says the NY Daily News. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced a deal on the budget this afternoon, and it looks a lot like the budget Cuomo proposed back in February:
The budget calls for a 2%... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 9:02 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here and here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 5:13 pm
With the help of two antiques dealers, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that it has arrested Joseph Hunter and Quinn Gaffney for allegedly stealing antiques on Partition Street in Saugerties and then selling them 100 yards away on Main... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 4:35 pm
Martha Frankel, a Boiceville-based writer, artist and provocateur, shared some intimate memories of the late Elizabeth Taylor with the Daily Freeman this week. Frankel recalls that she met Taylor while strenuously trying not to offend her by making eye... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 11:17 am
The Times Union's Capitol Confidential blog reports that scores of protesters chanted "No Fracking Way" in the War Room of the Capitol building in Albany yesterday, in a show of force that probably reached Governor Andrew Cuomo's ears in the next room... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 8:54 am
Victor Whitman at the Times Herald-Record reports this morning that a onetime casino investor who sold land in Bridgeville to the Seneca Nation for an ill-fated casino project wants both his land back and $15 million in damages. Charles Petri of 3D... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 5:13 pm
Bruce BakerFor the third and final installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Bruce Baker, a marketing consultant who teaches farm and food business people how... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 1:34 pm
In upstate New York, March is dreary season: a month made of mud, sleet, damp, and forlorn hopes for spring. In Brazil, March is Carnaval: riotous color, parades, wild costumes, and the infectious beat of the samba. After months of winter, it hardly seems... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Martin ButtsFor the second installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Martin Butts, a Syracuse-based local food advocate and consultant for small food producers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 4:06 pm
It was inevitable, really: After running a colossal three-part series about hydraulic fracturing, the New York Times expressed its opinion about the practice of gas drilling in an editorial published yesterday. In sum, the Gray Lady wants more studies,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 8:47 am
The vernal equinox might have come and gone three days ago, but in typical Catskills fashion, no one has alerted the local weather gods yet. Snow, sleet and high winds are on the way or already raging across the state, and conditions are expected to be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm
Deb KavakosThis year's Farm to Market Conference, a get-together sponsored by Pure Catskills and being held this Sunday in Liberty, is an annual conclave of growers, distributors, marketers, and buyers from all points in the food chain. We attended last... Read more
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