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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 9:52 am
Apparently you can't put the word "abortion" on the side of a giant fiberglass horse in the town of Saugerties. Even in teeny-tiny type. The Freeman's Ivan Lajara reports:
West Shokan writer Martha Frankel informed me on Wednesday night a fiberglass horse... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 9:11 am
Reporter Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record promised yesterday that Ulster County denizens would want to pick up the paper this morning -- and he wasn't wrong. Today's big local story is a ripping yarn about three anti-government nuts who allegedly... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 10:35 pm
Site of accident, on Route 28 near Canada Hollow Road between Margaretville and Andes.
A section of Route 28 was shut down briefly earlier in the evening after an accident just outside of Margaretville. Unofficial reports from a grapevine of police-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 8:08 pm
The state budget is still in scandalous limbo -- and though the New York state Senate has washed its hands of the people's business and gone on Fourth of July vacation, the watchful PACs who lurk in the underbrush of the New York political landscape are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 5:44 pm
From David Knudsen:
Yesterday (June 30th) the Senate finally got around to voting through a temporary reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through Sept. 30th. So deals that have been stuck in limbo and not able to close due to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:59 pm
Accusations of racism are flying in Cobleskill this week, after Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell sent out a late-night, town-wide email blasting Mayor Mark Nadeau and Supervisor Tom Murray for using the N-word. Yes, that N-word.
From the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:02 pm
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that Jeffrey W. Kayes, the driver of a dump truck that sparked an enormous fire on Rte. 9W in the town of Esopus on Tuesday, is facing criminal charges. The Record reports that those charges are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 3:11 pm
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Spring Lake Farm's Ulla Kjarval reflects on American meat-eating, her father's latest cohort of piglets, and the middle ground farms like her family's occupy between animal rights activism and so-called Big Ag.
The cuteness of the piglets are giving me... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 11:34 am
And despite a massive manhunt, he's still at large. From the Daily Freeman:
The Sheriff’s Office said in a prepared statement late Wednesday that it believes the robber set the fire to draw police away from the center of town so that he could pull off the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 11:19 am
The vanishingly rare Isotria medeoloides, the small whorled pogonia, has just been found again in New York State. The last time it was spotted within our borders was in an Onandaga County swamp in 1976. A press release from the state office of Parks,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in 360-degree panoramic images of abandoned places, recently turned his lens on the Grossinger's hotel near Liberty, NY. While he was there, he got took a panoramic portrait of the now-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 12:58 pm
People joke that there are two seasons in the Catskills: winter and the Fourth of July. But the summer is glorious, and never more so than on Independence Day. Towns across the region are putting on their best faces for the big weekend; a squirrel could... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 12:08 pm
If you see a tall thin man with a bandana and a bundle of cash in Ulster County, you might want to call the cops:
Undersheriff Frank Faluotico said the robbery took place at the Bank of America on Mill Hill Road at about 9:20 a.m.
The robber — described... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 10:06 am
Video of yesterday's fire posted by YouTube user Aylazon.
The inferno in the town of Esopus yesterday was nightmarish -- the flames were so hot that they melted a natural gas pipeline buried underground, according to the Daily Freeman. (They also... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 5:54 pm
If the four North Carolinians hadn't been busted in Kingston, that is. The Times Herald-Record reports that a carful of alleged drug-possessers were relieved of a rather large amount of hallucinatory booty on Saturday:
The four, all in their 20s and 30s,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 4:55 pm
Hanging laundry out to dry has a spiritual dimension, writes Schoharie-based farmer Shannon Hayes in an essay in Yes! Magazine. (The New York Times did a great profile of Hayes in 2007.)
Hayes is already a prolific cookbook author ("The Grassfed Gourmet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 10:45 am
A fuel tanker and a dump truck crashed on 9W in Esopus around 8:30 this morning, causing a fire that gutted a nearby business and reportedly caused injuries. The Times Herald-Record reports:
The two trucks apparently collided and went partially off the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 10:31 am
Having welcomed Marcellus shale drillers with open arms, Pennsylvania now thinks it might be a good idea to pass a tax on revenue from Marcellus wells. The Times-Tribune reports that the gas industry is seeing Pennsylvania's newfound zeal for a severance... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:28 pm
Ladies and gentlemen of New York State: We have a budget.
Sort of.
Hoping to seize control of a budget battle dominated for weeks by Gov. David A. Paterson, lawmakers voted on Monday to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in education and health... Read more
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