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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 13, 2010 - 12:37 pm
If you're a 16-year-old, you might want to avoid Truman's Bar in the week hours of the night. If you don't, you might end up with "serious cuts to the face." Via the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 5:09 pm
Broadcasting live from the Rhinecliff Hotel in just a couple of hours: The inaugural webcast of Hudson Valley Green Drinks, whose members will be downing libations and talking about local sustainable food this evening. Tune in here for live "moderated... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:59 pm
Move over, embattled dairy farmers of New York State: It's going to be a tough year for onion and fruit growers, too. The Times Herald-Record reports:
Black Dirt onion farmer Chris Pawelski of Goshen, for example, said strong winds at the end of April... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:40 pm
Fed up with a plague of feral cats in his neighborhood, Robert Senor, Democrat of Ward 8, wants to limit the number of cats per house in Kingston, the Freeman reports.
The alderman envisions a limit of between three and five cats, and his legislation... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:30 pm
The Catskills Cyclist reports that Ulster County is looking for input on its 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan. Naturally, he's hoping bicycles get mentioned in it:
The survey is pretty cool. It allows you to check boxes for Bike/Ped issues. One... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 4:23 pm
Social-media maven (and Kingston Neighborhood Watcher) Claudia D'Arcy was a little steamed that an Ulster County conference on promoting local business via social media didn't bother to hire a local:
Now, this has absolutely nothing personal against Brian... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Yesterday, with much fanfare, the late Board of Water Supply police officer John J. Quinlan was added to the State of New York Police Officers Memorial in Albany (and also the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.) He is the "... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 12:05 pm
Trout in the Classroom from VeccVideography on Vimeo.
Local video maven Jessica Vecchione just filmed the Trout in the Classroom program in action at the Arkville Community Living Skills Center, which offers programs for people with disabilities under... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:39 am
Policy watchdog Environmental Advocates of New York has flunked state senators John Bonacic and Bill Larkin on environmental issues, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports. It's because they both voted to kill a bill that would've allowed people in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:13 am
Twenty-three Ulster County centenarians were feted by the Ulster County Office of Aging last Friday. Seems like a lot of venerable aged folks for one county, doesn't it? Apparently, whiskey has something to do with it, according to YNN Hudson Valley:
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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 5:05 pm
It has to take a particular kind of crazy to get yourself chased by the police, have your truck flip over, and then land on your wheels and keep going. And on Rte. 10 in the town of Summit, which, as its name implies, is on the top of a mountain. Elijah... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 1:33 pm
Upstate communities that rely on tourist dollars are bemoaning the loss of an I Love New York program that gives matching funds to counties, the AP reports.
“This is our season, this our time, this is when we’re luring those travelers and those expendable... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 12:22 pm
The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 9:45 am
Despite last weekend's freakish weather, the good people of Fleischmanns still celebrated Cinco de Mayo (on Saturday, May 8) with music and lots of food. Jessica Vecchione was on hand with her video camera to capture the scene:
Cinco De Mayo Celebration... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Empire State Future's Peter B. Fleischer lays out the case against malignant sprawl in yesterday's Albany Times-Union.
Today's upstate sprawl extends considerably farther away from town and city centers; consists of larger homes built on larger lots (many... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The Ulster County distillery gets a nod in a recent Food and Wine roundup of best new American whiskies:
According to Tuthilltown Spirits, New York had upward of 1,000 farm stills before the 1919 ratification of the Volstead act made them all illegal.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:30 pm
The DEC is mulling some new regulations, in an attempt to crack down on the vastly idiotic, yet depressingly widespread, practice of leaving food out where bears can get it. From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise:
The new regulations would ban the feeding... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:06 pm
If you were one of those foohardy souls who got seduced by the beautiful weather into planting a bunch of vegetables, you'd best get out there with your row covers:
ANOTHER COLD SPRING NIGHT IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION. CALM WINDS AND COLD AIR WILL... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:03 pm
An AP story in the Daily Freeman announces with some fanfare that the state depertment of health and the DEC have just developed a new online, interactive map plotting the incidence of cancer and pollution sites.
That's fantastic. Way to put powerful data... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm
In the Daily Mail today: Greene County Council on the Arts pleads the state not to decimate its arts budget.
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, came before the county Legislature Wednesday with a plea of support.
“... Read more
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