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By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:44 am
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:34 am
Looks like staff shortages at the DEC are delaying the completion of a review of the agency's plans for Marcellus shale gas drilling until at least late summer right in the middle of campaign season. From the Ithaca Journal:
"As with every agency, we are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:13 am
In the New York Times today: Catskills vacation home prices are dropping.
Although sellers have not all lowered their list prices to meet buyers’ expectations, brokers estimate that the price for the typical weekend retreat has dropped at least 20... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 11:35 pm
We passed this tattoo parlor's web 2.0 billboard on Rte. 28 outside of Kingston and had to snap a photo. Pat's Tats is definitely online and on Twitter, but so far, it's only got three tweets! Pat, we want more!
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:23 pm
Comix publisher Vertigo reveals a few pages of their upcoming September title, a graphic novel inspired by the incredible true experiences of local painter Inverna Lockpez, and brought to vivid life by comic artist Dean Haspiel. The gist:
From the moment... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 8:31 pm
The Ashokan Center has been forced to scale back somewhat on its ambitious plans for its new arts and environmental education campus in Olivebridge, the Woodstock Times reports. But founders Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are making the best of it:
Alas, Ungar... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 4:56 pm
The Nom Nom Good food co-op in Cooperstown wants a label to reflect that their food is farmed on land that has not been leased for gas drilling.
I am looking for a symbol to put on our advertising to show that we do not support gas drilling, or more... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:44 am
Dramatic money worries are in the air today. In the Daily Freeman, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has a plan to save Ulster County $8.6 million with a hodgpodge of measures, including shutting down some local healthcare offices:
Among Hein’s cost-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:29 am
The Daily Star reports.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 11:39 pm
The thing is, it doesn't really seem to need it, according to the village clerk (via the Daily Freeman):
“There is an intercom right outside the front door of our office that they can press and we will come down, or the sign on the door says for them to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 9:52 pm
That's what the experts on last night's panel about tiny Fleischmanns, NY, said. They were discussing the movie "Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns," by filmmaker Jessica Vecchione, which chronicles the growth of a vibrant Mexican community in the village over... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 8:59 pm
From the Woodstock Film Fest:
HIGHER GROUND, which will mark the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Down to the Bone) is looking to hire local Hudson Valley crew members for May-June film production. Please note that this is a low budget... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 5:55 pm
The Daily Star reports:
A 23-year-old Oneonta woman was arrested on misdemeanor charges Monday for allegedly allowing her toddler to play with a box that contained a hypodermic needle ... The girl had been pricked in her left index finger when she... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 4:23 pm
From the Times Herald-Record.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 3:24 pm
The aging Mansion House in White Lake has a date with destiny, according to developer Pawel Efraimov, who is planning to tear it down as soon as he gets the final go-ahead from the Bethel's Planning Board.
The Times Herald-Record reports that Town... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 3:11 pm
A curator at the National Museum of American History has spent three years trying to answer a question that has perplexed scientists and historians: Was Levi Hill a fake?
Hill, a 19th-century Baptist minister in West Kill, claimed to have invented color... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 12:31 pm
No matter how you crunch the numbers on Ulster County's new middle-management union contract, it adds up to a huge lump-sum cash payout the county can ill afford. The contract -- the subject of a contentious meeting of the county Budget and Finance... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 10:52 am
That's filmmaker Jessica Vecchione, discussing the making of her flim "Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns" last night at the Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.
The screening of the documentary, which is about the village of Fleischmanns in Delaware... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 9:47 am
Good citizens of New Paltz, take note: they've tried hanging dead vultures around to scare the live ones away in Florida, too, and the results were "mixed." From the Miami Herald:
The first few days they had it up there, oooh, it was eerie around here,"... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:14 pm
Looks like GOP hopeful Steve Levy wants to make it a campaign issue:
“The folks up here in this region I see like the potential of economic development and they are going to monitor this because this is their drinking water and lake systems. We've got to... Read more
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