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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:03 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston mayor James Sottile and legislator David Donaldson are pushing for Ulster County to take over all Safety Net payments. (Ulster County is the only county in New York State that bills individual municipalities for the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 8:17 pm
From the Times Herald-Record:
Kingston detectives on Monday arrested Curtis Williams, 36, outside his home at E. 168th Street in the Bronx. Williams was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.
Police had been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
Another fracking movie, this one called "Gas Odyssey," makes its worldwide debut this week in Binghamton. (See our calendar listing for details.)
From the trailer, which is sadly impossible to embed, it looks like the film explores why the people of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 3:32 pm
An Oneonta filmmaker's 10-year dream of putting her father's mining tales into a movie will be realized next month, when "Switchback" starts filming in Essex County. From the Daily Star:
Co-producers Joel Plue and Lori Kelly-Bailey, his mother, have been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 2:06 pm
Enforcing the newly-passed Leandra's law, which requires all convicted drunk drivers to install ignition locks on their vehicles, may be too pricey for Greene County to handle, county lawmakers said at a meeting last night. The Daily Freeman reports:... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 12:59 pm
In Monticello, the Times Herald-Record reports on the not-too-crafty ruse: sell someone the TV you are renting from Rent-a-Center, and then report it as stolen.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 11:03 am
Josh Fox's documentary about the hazards of natural gas drilling is gearing up for a screening tour this summer, and looking for an intern to help.
The Director of Gasland (winner Sundance Special Jury Prize 2010) is looking for a talented and motivated... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:15 pm
A slide from a presentation by James Richenderfer, of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, showing the number of "high value" trout streams in the Marcellus Shale.
Academics, consultants, and executives from Shell agreed at a government-sponsored... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 10:46 pm
Kingston Neighborhood Watch is hoping that #10 Linderman Avenue, currently for sale at the bargain-basement price of $59,000, won't be bought by another absentee landlord.
#10 Linderman is taking a break from being am illegally four family apartment that... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Three people were burned this afternoon in an explosion at Steyers Hudson Valley Auto on the Malden Turnpike in Saugerties.
From the Daily Freeman:
State police said one of the mechanics at Steyer’s Hudson Valley Auto, Inc. at 468 Malden Turnpike was... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 8:48 pm
American shad, once plentiful in the Hudson and the smaller rivers they return to each year to spawn, have suffered tremendous declines in recent years--so much so that the NY DEC declared them off-limits in the Hudson this year.
Nevertheless, the guides... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 5:28 pm
Why can you buy mango popsicles and fresh cactus leaves in the tiny rural village of Fleischmanns, the onetime summer stronghold of the decidedly non-tropical Fleischmanns yeast dynasty?
Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione and a panel of sociologists and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 4:49 pm
Clearly Woodstock ain't what it used to be:
Given that the usual fare in Woodstock is either jam bands, singer-songwriters, or retro folkies, the Hold Steady’s aggressively contemporary take on bar band blues and seventies rock arrangements was not to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:47 am
Four of the six alleged sexual-abuse victims of accused Margaretville priest James McDevitt are suing the Albany Catholic diocese, in hopes of recovering an unspecified amount of money. If they succeed, they'll join just a handful of accusers to get cash... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:30 am
New York History reports that the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown is looking for students for its summer Young Interpreters program. Sounds like a blast:
The museum presents the trades and crafts common to ordinary people of rural 19th-century New York... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 11:04 am
Over the weekend, the DEP, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and Trout Unlimited restored a riverbank along a section of Horton Brook. Here's the DEP press release.
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 11, 2010 - 1:58 pm
Warm days, not too much wind, and spring flowers exploding into bloom: a perfect recipe for pollination. This orange-belted bumblebee (Bombus ternarius) was hard at work around noon today on a cherry bush in Delhi.
Photo by Lissa Harris.
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 10, 2010 - 10:24 pm
The DEP recently announced the purchase of another 1,026 acres of land in New York City's west-of-Hudson watershed, prompting howls of outrage from the usual suspects.
Dean Frazier, Delaware County Watershed affairs commissioner, spoke at a public... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 10, 2010 - 9:45 pm
With the aid of power tools, the iconic Hudson River School artist might have made paintings like Stephen Hannock. A renowned modern-day heir to the legacy of Cole and his peers, Hannock has a technique--developed by accident, as this terrific Forbes... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 9, 2010 - 4:06 pm
The Rosendale Theatre Collective's attempt to convince Pepsi to give it a $50,000 piece of its million-dollar grant-pie might be working. From an RTC email sent today:
Legions of Rosendale Theatre fans have been mobilized and it is a sight to see. Check... Read more
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