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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 5:03 pm
Fox 40 has the story:
An 18-year-old Cherry Valley man has been charged with manslaughter following the shooting death of an Otsego County teen in Owego Monday night.
Authorities say 15-year-old Naomi Miklic of Cherry Valley was shot in a car on East... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 3:18 pm
This week, a widely reported natural gas story has the industry scrambling to defend their actions: A probe by Congressional Democrats has found that between 2005 and 2009, U.S. gas drillers injected at least 32 million gallons of fluid containing large... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 2:26 pm
On Sunday, the Times Herald-Record gave the front-page treatment to the notorious Richard Ulloa, a Stone Ridge resident who was convicted of orchestrating an elaborate paperwork harrassment scheme against government officials in December.
According to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 10:18 am
With the snow piling up nicely out there, the hills of Delaware County are alive lately with the vroom of snowmobile engines. A poster on TrailConditions.com reports that he and his brother had a good outing yesterday, despite a small mishap with a tree.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 10:07 am
Losing All Tomorrow's Parties must have been a big blow to Monticello's venerable Kutshers County Club, as we reported last week. But the resort has another trick up its sleeve.
The New York Post reports that the owners of Kutshers are teaming up with... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 9:20 am
Above, the scene at Plattekill Mountain this morning, via its Facebook page.
Can you see much out your window this morning? We can't here in Andes. But this is only the beginning. Anywhere from 9 to 20 inches of snow is expected across much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 3:52 pm
We just got an update from Treadwell resident Linda Norris about The Pickle Project, an exhibit about Ukranian foodways which Norris was seeking to fund via the website Kickstarter by February 1. (We reported on the project a few weeks ago.)
From a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 3:37 pm
The town of Hamden in Delaware County will soon see a local landmark made new: The Hamden Inn, which has been bought by the nearby Lucky Dog Farm Store and Cafe, will open as a restaurant and bar this spring. Longer-term plans are in the works to re-open... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 11:50 am
The Catskills Center for Conservation and Development is looking for an artist to host in a rustic cabin in the middle of the Platte Clove Nature Preserve in Hunter this summer. Perks of the center's artist-in-residence program include a telephone, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 11:39 am
The National Weather Service says we're in for it. Here's the forecast for Schoharie and Greene County:
Locations: The Southern Adirondacks...Western Mohawk Valley...Schoharie Valley...Lake George Saratoga Region...Capital District...Southern Vermont...... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 11:21 am
On Friday, a New York corrections officer was killed on the Thruway north of Kingston in a collision caused by a driver briefly taking her eyes off the road.
According to a press release issued by the State Police, a woman driving northbound sideswiped a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 9:01 am
A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the Monticello Winery. Yeshiva World News reports:
Fire Departments from multiple towns were dispatched to the Armon Kosher Winery (Allied Wine Corp. / Monticello Winery) at 2 Fairground Road, near Cold Spring Road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 8:55 am
The Daily Freeman has a long story today about GOP Congressman Chris Gibson's ambition to site a new nuclear power plant in his upstate New York district.
Gibson is working to create a bipartisan energy advisory panel that will consider ways to promote... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011 - 9:33 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.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 - 10:17 am
Yesterday afternoon, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced that it would no longer be releasing turbid water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the Esopus Creek, starting immediately. The press release from DEP Commissioner Cas... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 1:41 pm
Flickr user Laura McCarthy snapped this photo (and a bunch of others -- see slideshow below) last weekend while hiking the Black Dome range trail in Greene County. Photo used with permission.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm
In the Daily Star today: Thanks to donations, Oneonta's embattled Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center has enough money to keep the lights on for at least a few months.
About $110,000 in contributions will keep Foothills operating for several... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 10:13 am
Last night, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart interviewed oilman T. Boone Pickens about fracking and its prominent place in the Pickens Plan for American energy independence.
Highlights include Jon Stewart asking Pickens whether or not he's annoyed that BP has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:57 am
Cheesemaking Help, a blog dedicated to (surprise, surprise) the fine art of cheese and the making thereof, published a wonderful interview yesterday with a member of the Osmanli Dergah, the Sidney Sufi community that was in the news so much last year... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:30 am
Yesterday, word got around that the organizers of the indie music festival All Tomorrow's Parties have decided to move their three-day rock concert from the Kutshers resort in Monticello to a new venue on the Jersey Shore.
The festival's organizers tried... Read more
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