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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 9:59 am
When people get angry about things as benign as farm stands, they get really angry. Phoenicia's Hanover Farms, a large and successful farm stand on Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper, has been a flashpoint of angst for years.
In a nutshell, owner Al Higley's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 10:38 pm
There are plans afoot to create a local currency for the Hudson Valley known as the Hudson Valley Current. (The publisher of the Chronogram is one of the backers of the initiative, which is being spearheaded by a nascent nonprofit called the Center for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 4:29 pm
Remember last week's shooting on Clinton Avenue? There's another victim, and he's apparently a fearsomely stoic individual. Scott Nesbitt, who police say was walking with victim Raymond Smith and another man when the bullets began flying, has been going... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 3:49 pm
The debate over gas drilling in the Marcellus is beginning to attract some Madison-Avenue-style advertising stunts, such as this video by Riverkeeper's Don't Frack With NYC campaign:
It stars Louis Thompson, the owner of Terrace Bagels in Prospect Park... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 11:20 am
Since Schoharie beef farmer David Huse died last month in a tractor accident, his friends and neighbors have been coming to terms with his loss.
Before it ended its legislative session, the New York State Legislature adopted a resolution honoring Huse's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 11:01 am
According to this note in last week's edition of the Mountain Eagle, there is a county-wide municipal water-tasting contest today:
The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce has invited the village of Stamford to participate in the annual Delaware County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 10:33 am
Last week, Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell accused Cobleskill Town Supervisor Tom Murray and Mayor Mark Nadeau of uttering the N-word. This week, in the face of their strenuous denials, Fissell has produced an audio tape backing up his claim... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 3:39 pm
Zero gravity ride in Margaretville. Photo by Alison Cherry.
Across the watershed, rides were ridden, swims were swum, and fireworks were detonated. Here's the proof: photos of the Fourth of July, taken by our readers:
Nature's 4th Display in Stony... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 1:55 pm
July marks the start of two months of a Jewish population boom across the Catskills, and what better way to celebrate that with a little sentimental storytelling? Ronald Pies at The Jewish Magazine tells a fable of two warring brothers set in the old... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 1:44 pm
From Celeste Katz at the Daily News, quoting an email from Jay Jacobs, the chairman of the state Democratic Party:
Today, the New York State Democratic Committee initiated legal proceedings to cancel Senator Pedro Espada Jr.’s affiliation as a Democrat.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 11:32 am
Eurasian water chestnut. Photo via the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
The town of Esopus has fixed its brand-new water-chestnut-harvesting machine, and is ready to play grim reaper to the ever-present invasive plant that chokes the shallow waters of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 10:23 am
... Jamal Colon, from Monticello. He sustained a bullet wound during his Independence Day celebration, and to hear the Times Herald-Record tell is, his methods were almost guaranteed to endanger life and limb:
Jamal Colon, 31, told police he placed a box... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Looks like the entire state of New York -- and most of the Eastern seaboard -- is going to be extra-smoggy tomorrow. Check out AIRNow's map of current air-quality alerts in the U.S.
If you have asthma or lung disease, please take it easy out there... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 3:54 pm
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record busted out a calculator and figured out exactly how much money New York City loses each day because of the acqueduct leak in Wawarsing. The answer? It ain't cheap:
In 2010, New York City charged its residents $2.61... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 3:24 pm
Another week, another fire. This time, a pizzeria in Woodridge burned to the ground in a very smoky blaze yesterday, injuring five firefighters in the process, according to the Times Herald-Record.
Woodridge Pizza & Cafe was apparently a beloved... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:52 am
With the last Kutsher on the verge of retirement, the resort that inspired "Dirty Dancing" was poised to follow its Borscht Belt brethren into a long twilight of decrepitude. But in a lucky break for the 103-year-old hotel, caterer Mickey Montal and... Read more
By Joe Harris on Saturday, Jul. 3, 2010 - 8:48 am
Every great new invention has got a frumpy sister who is increasingly losing her youthfulness, her appeal, and her hair. Easily one of the greatest innovations of the last century is texting, which has revolutionized the way all people are heard and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 3:08 pm
A bill instituting no-fault divorce in New York State, which cleared the state Senate last month, passed the Assembly yesterday with wide margins. When Gov. Paterson signs it -- which he's promised to do -- New York will join the 49 other states that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Kingston residents are furious today over a shooting around 8pm yesterday evening on Clinton Avenue, whose perpetrator is still unknown and at-large.* From the Daily Freeman:
Neighbors said they heard four shots and then saw a man lying in front of 84... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 12:58 pm
Only up here in the hills, we call 'em "marihuana." This just in via a press release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On Thursday, July 1, Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies searched properties located in the towns of Delhi and Davenport and... Read more
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