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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 5:26 pm
Leave it to the New York Daily News to faithfully follow the story of Benjamin, the monkey terror of Greene County, who attacked a guest at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast last summer and then was spirited away to Florida by his owner, who himself fled... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 4:33 pm
Above: A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome symptoms. Via the Flickr page of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.
Phil Brown of the Adirondack Almanack posted a story yesterday about his visit to New York state's largest bat... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 2:44 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that an Ulster County Highway Department snow plow collided with a school bus loaded with 25 kids in the Town of Esopus this morning. The bus driver and two students were reportedly taken to Kingston... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 1:54 pm
ProPublica, whose reporter Abrahm Lustgarten is currently one of the most prominent critics of hydrofracking in the media, published a long piece yesterday that casts doubt on the purported climate benefits of natural gas. An excerpt:
Advocates for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 10:02 am
Monticello just lost one of its coolest attractions -- the indie-rock festival All Tomorrow's Parties, which was held at Kutshers Country Club for the past three years. This year, the festival's organizers told the New York Times on Tuesday, ATP will be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 8:39 am
Delaware County real estate agent Frank Lumia (who, full disclosure, is one of our business subscribers), has produced a video for the environmental news and video website BigGreenTV that explains water pollution by using magic tricks.
Lumia is a magician... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 2:09 pm
The famous Munson Diner, a much-beloved Hell's Kitchen greasy spoon that made its way to Liberty on the back of a flatbed trailer in 2005 and re-opened to great fanfare in 2007, has closed. Again. From this week's Sullivan County Democrat:
Her most recent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 12:34 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A man driving a black pickup truck made off with two ATVs sitting near Rte. 10 in Walton on Saturday night. There is a reward for whoever returns them. Helpfully, both ATVs are bright yellow.
For the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 9:20 am
Bovina historian Ray LaFever digs up a book of earmarks -- the kind you put on sheep, not bills. With so many farmers in Bovina, no wonder they had a hard time keeping the sheep straight:
These earmarks were registered with the town clerk. In the records... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 9:01 am
The Daily Mail reports:
A 24-year-old West Coxsackie woman was injured Tuesday when she lost control of her sedan and slid into a school bus, state police said.
The woman, who had to be extricated from the vehicle, suffered head trauma, though state... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 3:55 pm
Dan Abrams: Photo by Joy Moore. Used with permission.The opera-loving hoi polloi in Mozart and Beethoven and Wagner's day didn't have access to live HD broadcasts. Outside theaters in metropolitan centers, they relied on solo artists, generally pianists,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 3:28 pm
Above: A Sundance "Meet the Artist" feature with Vera Farmiga, who directed and starred in the Hudson Valley-filmed Higher Ground, and who's also a part-time Catskills resident.
Through the 30th, most of the indie-film world is in Utah for the annual... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 10:48 am
If you wondered where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stood on hydraulic fracturing, wonder no more. The anti-drilling documentary Gasland, which has been touring the country for most of this year, has been nominated for Best Feature... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 10:30 am
The Delaware River Basin Commission announced yesterday that it will invite public comment on its proposed regulations for gas drilling in the Delaware River watershed at three meetings in February.
The draft regulations, which were released in December,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 9:32 am
A winning Powerball ticket that was sold at a laundromat in the Village of Catskill has gone unclaimed for days, the Daily Freeman, News10, and the Daily Mail report.
A lottery spoksperson told the Freeman that having $122 mil go unclaimed for a while isn... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 7:51 pm
We just received a press release from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic order that has run the St. Cabrini Home for troubled girls in Esopus since 1890:
The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have engaged in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 4:36 pm
On Friday, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation made it illegal to feed a black bear, even accidentally. From a DEC press release:
As black bear numbers have increased significantly in recent years and bears have become more widespread... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Last Friday, an Ulster County Sheriff's deputy reportedly plucked 15-month-old Sarah Schmidt from death.
The baby's parents, Alexander and Andrea, called 911 when Sarah stopped breathing, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 2:25 pm
Frankly, we're a little jealous of the Walton Reporter's new sign, created for them by culinary students from SUNY Delhi. Pretty cool, huh? (Ba-dum bump!)
The second annual Winter Festival in Walton last Saturday was by all accounts a smashing success,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 2:02 pm
In the Freeman today: An update on the case of Emilio and Analia Maya, the Argentinian brother-sister duo behind the Tango Cafe in Saugerties, who are currently facing deportation next month for having illegally overstayed their visas.
For now, the Mayas... Read more
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