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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:14 am
Say you're in the area of Oneida, Madison, Otsego, Broome, Chenango, Montgomery and Schoharie counties. You're having a tough time getting tourists excited about visiting. "Leatherstocking Region" just isn't bringing in the crowds like it used to. What do... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 11:14 pm
Reporters from across the state were hard at work over the Easter weekend, hoovering up any available details to try to explain Friday's horrifying shooting in Cooperstown.
WKTV in Utica found a parent of a black child who says bullying and racism are a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 10:32 pm
Steve Schimmrich, the Hudson Valley Geologist, took advantage of the spectacular weather to hike in Minnewaska State Park on Good Friday.(He got some great pictures, too.)
Having a Ph.D in geology has its benefits: Where most of us probably would have... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a 34-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, was shot in the wee hours of Monday morning and died en route to the hospital.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:38 am
Updated DEP regulations, in the works for several years, went into effect over the weekend. The Daily Freeman has a story.
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 3, 2010 - 9:54 pm
White shooter, black victim. Without more facts, it's impossible to say why authorities are suspecting a racial motive to yesterday's dramatic showdown at the Cooperstown police station, but that's what the AP implies.
It began when the white teen stepped... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Treadwell resident Linda Norris, who blogs at The Uncataloged Museum and is in the Ukraine on a Fulbright fellowship, reflects on village life in two continents.
I realized yesterday that there's one big difference between villages in the United States... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 8:33 pm
It sounds like a scene from an old Western: One teenager shoots another, then himself, in the Cooperstown police station.
Cooperstown Police Chief Diana T. Nicols said it all began when a car crashed into the iron gates just outside the National Baseball... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 2:13 pm
Trout season officially began in New York yesterday, to the delight of zillions of anglers (and the Catskills businesses that depend on them). The DEC says it's going to be a great year:
The state has experienced two consecutive summers of cool wet... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 10:50 am
Verizon has officially announced that it won't be installing its high-speed fiber-optic cable network in most of upstate New York, or anywhere else it already isn't available. But that won't stop the company from advertising the service in areas where it... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 10:30 am
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation dropped another piece of bad news about state parks yesterday: fees are going up. The press release says that parking fees will rise to $8 per vehicle at "flagship" state parks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 10:12 pm
Yesterday's Daily Freeman had the goods: a Freedom of Information Law request turned up a damning report from the state Commission on Corrections on the death of 22-year-old Richard Vandemark in the Ulster County jail last April. Vandemark hanged himself... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 9:52 pm
Sally Moon in Olive got some great photos yesterday of water spilling over the Ashokan dam.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 2:53 pm
From Twitter:
@NKFF NKFF on hiatus until 2011... With a new baby on the way, we've decided to hold off on NKFF 2010 and give the grant money back. Let's rest :)
Alas! We were looking forward to NKFF. Here's hoping the crew won't be too busy with diapers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office isn't the most press-friendly shop in town, even for New York state government. When the Watershed Post was reporting on their recent actions against hospitals in the NYC watershed, I wasn't able to get a comment... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 10:30 am
After subtracting 100 votes from its total election tally yesterday, Walton was forced to rename its election's winners and losers:
Morley's total was originally announced as 165 votes, winning him one of the two available seats, but the actual number... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010 - 2:02 pm
Coxsackie village residents should boil their tap water for the next three days. A water main broke last night and has been repaired, the Daily Mail reports.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010 - 1:24 pm
An investigation by Wine Spectator's Ben O'Donnell into the legislative fight over whether to allow wine in supermarkets reveals that lobbyists and politicians are making out like bandits:
In an in-depth investigation, Wine Spectator has discovered that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010 - 10:23 am
The accuracy of results in a four-way race for two Walton village trustee slots are being questioned, says the Daily Star.
When Walton Village Clerk Jody Brown tallied the votes, she announced that Patrick Meredith won election with 209 votes, and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 - 9:24 pm
Democratic Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen has some nice words for Republican state senator John Bonacic, for his efforts to get the DEP to do a better job of flood management around NYC's Ashokan reservoir upstate.
Our State Senator, John Bonacic... Read more
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