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By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:30 pm
We're not sure exactly what a "masculine/rustic" home and horse farm entails -- massive encrustations of wood paneling, perhaps? Tartan flannel curtains? Hobos nesting in the rafters? If you've got that certain manly je ne sais quoi about your house and a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Blue_Mtn_Photos gets a glorious may-blooming field in Saugerties framed just right. Posted in the Watershed Post photo pool on Flickr.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 11:57 am
Upstate New York is riddled with museums, landmarks, historical sites, preservation societies and the like. But here's one we haven't heard before: An outdoor museum for unspecified objects, consisting mainly of a giant wooden bobcat in a vacant lot.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 9:50 am
Occasional media critic Tom Roe of WGXC checks out two new local newspapers -- the brand-new Greenville Mountain News Pioneer and the fresh-from-a-makeover Greene County News -- and helpfully shreds them for us here in Internet-land. (Neither paper has a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 9:19 am
Ulster County Democratic campaigner and political blogger Jeremy Blaber really, really doesn't want to see Julian Schriebman reelected as Ulster County's Democratic chair. So much so that he's offering $500 in cold, hard cash to any "serious Democrat" who... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 23, 2010 - 3:56 pm
An article in last week's Daily Freeman raised questions about whether U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey used federal funding for personal gain when he got $800,000 for sewage system improvements in the village of Saugerties, where he owns part of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 10:20 pm
The Daily Star reports that Richard Murphy, Democrat of Oneonta, is planning to introduce a bill to ask the state to hold off on hydrofracking until there's more scientific data on its potential risks:
Murphy said he believes that if the state gave... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 2:54 pm
Heirloom apples are harder to come by than Cuban cigars, it seems. Sally Moon tells the story of her 20-year search for Black Twig, which took her all the way to Thomas Jefferson's estate (otherwise known as "the other Monticello").
"What would you like... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 9:16 am
It's like pulling teeth to get people to speak up at a vital school budget meeting around here -- but mention cats, and suddenly everybody's got an opinion. The Freeman reports (with video!) on last night's contentious Common Council meeting, at which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The New York Flora Association is calling on all backyard entomologists to keep a sharp eye out for the rusty-patched bumblebee and the yellow banded bumblebee. If you spot one, let them know.
According to the Xerxes Society, the two bee species are... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:36 pm
The award for Most Unusual Loss Leader goes to Northeastern supermarket chain Price Chopper, for their recent decision to give away diabetes medication free of charge. YNN reports it's a move to build customer loyalty.
With almost 1 in 10 upstate New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:26 pm
Steve Levy and Rick Lazio, the two pols jousting to run for governor on the Republican ticket, paid a visit yesterday to the Sullivan County GOP convention. From the Times Herald-Record:
Lazio, a former four-term Congressman, and Levy, the Suffolk County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 9:23 am
The New York Times ventured as far north as Livingston Manor recently for one of their perennial second-home renovation features (a.k.a., "house porn").
The surprise? The homeowner, PR magnate Melanie Brandman, turned out to be more interesting than the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 19, 2010 - 2:39 pm
For a column published yesterday, Mike Di Paola of Bloomberg News paid a visit to a Sullivan county grandma, Alice Diehl, who helped convince Sullivan County legislators to ban gas drilling on county land.
Breathing is Political's Liz Bucar, who attended... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 19, 2010 - 8:26 am
Despite much controversy over school budgets this year -- prompting a massive campaign by the state teachers' union -- yesterday's school election results aren't too revolutionary. (See the Daily Freeman's results chart here, and the Times Herald-Record's... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 10:51 am
Old Locomotive Gets New Life
Engine 407, a 1940s-era veteran of the Long Island Railroad and the Staten Island Railway, could easily have ended up on the scrap heap, Staten Island Advance reports. Instead, the little blue engine is getting buffed... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 10:12 am
This may be the most contentious school budget year in recent memory for many districts around the Catskills region. Today's the day for voting on school budgets and school board members, across the state. Here are a few links for more information on... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 18, 2010 - 9:44 am
Even in sleepy Greene County, a lot has changed since 1997 -- the last time the county's administrative manual got an update. Yesterday, county legislators began to tackle the sticky question of what their social-networking policy should look like, the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 16, 2010 - 11:03 pm
Maybe he would have spent a few years and $95 million getting rid of a stop light in Parksville. Times Herald-Record editor Barry White is sick of the endless construction:
How do you get rid of a light and grade crossing in a hamlet that has long... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 13, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Last week, Covidien, one of the largest employers in Delaware County, announced that it was making the first layoffs of its almost 20 years in the tiny village of Hobart. This week, the Daily Mail Mountain Eagle has the numbers: 90 hourly and salaried... Read more
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