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By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 3:28 pm
The Brooklyn-based band, fronted by Halcottsville's own Arleigh Kincheloe (with brother Jackson on the harmonica), plays two shows in the Catskills this weekend. Catch them tonight at the T-Bar Saloon in Roxbury, or tomorrow (Saturday) at the Andes Hotel... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Police are investigating the death of 22-year-old Erik Shook, who was found dead in his off-campus home on Tuesday, WRGB reports.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 12:44 pm
State parks are taking a huge fiscal hit in the Governor's budget. The Albany Times-Union has a full list of state parks the Paterson administration is recommending closing or scaling back. It's a long one.
On the list: the Robert V. Riddell State Park... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 12:30 pm
A tractor-trailer carrying concrete crashed into a house in Davenport around 5am this morning, killing an occupant, the AP reports.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 12:18 pm
Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY 21st) was on the Truth About Trucking radio program yesterday, talking up a bill he's sponsoring to increase trucker safety. Named for the late Jason Rivenburg, who was killed while sleeping at a gas station last spring, Jason... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 9:41 am
The Catskill Chronicle profiles Plunk, a new art/consignment shop on Main Street in Livingston Manor.
On Saturday, February 6, The Plunk Shop held its grand opening featuring “Realer Than Real – A Collection of Lenticular Images and 3-D Photo Wonders” an... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 12:38 pm
Steven Schimmrich, writing at Hudson Valley Geologist, remembers Rosendale's Dietrich Werner, who died in December.
What affected me the most about Dietrich's death was that the week he died I was working on a project having to do with the Rosendale... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 12:28 pm
Kingston Citizens has the details.
Kingston Natural Foods, an organic food store and provider of local artisan products, is opening in the Rondout Spring 2010! That means that Jennifer McKinley-Rakov will not only host one of the biggest organic and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 10:38 am
Tony Fletcher finds an unexpected treasure trove of '70s music history in his basement.
It’s not like I don’t already have several boxes full of cassettes in the storage room behind my office, including tapes of my pre-pubescent bedroom band from back in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 10:25 am
From the Times Herald-Record.
“The governor's proposal would directly harm taxpayers and businesses at a time when we can least afford it,” Assemblyman Kevin Cahill said in a statement issued Wednesday. The state should be encouraging people to file their... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 9:49 am
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen reflects on county executive Mike Hein's recent State of the County address, and is a little frustrated about not hearing more about forward progress.
But I'm a realist. It's not so much who was giving the speech as... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 3:50 pm
We got a call from Peter Manning at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on our recent item on a fed/state tussle over the color of Adirondacks and Catskills road signs. It seems that while the Adirondacks will get to keep their iconic... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 2:23 pm
Oklahoma investor Joey Abbo, who failed in his bid to buy the ailing Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill last year, says he's still interested in buying, if he has time to put the financing together. From the Times Union:
Abbo says he had been working with several... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 2:02 pm
New York genealogists and researchers are upset about a rumored plan by the National Archives and Records Administration to move the Northeast regional archive to a new office in New York City, and put most of its hard-copy materials in a storage unit in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 9:35 am
The DEP is holding a hearing in the Bronx tomorrow to discuss soaring water rates.
The New York City Water Board is expected to enact a 14% rate hike in May, bringing water rates to double what they were 12 years ago, and making the average single-family... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 9:12 am
Congressman Maurice Hinchey introduced a bill in support of the Saugerties businessowners on February 5. You can track its progress on OpenCongress, a handy website that provides easy access to federal legislation.
From a comment left on OpenCongress,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Hungry young entrepreneur shares a ski lift with multi-million-dollar venture capitalist; gets a few minutes suspended in air to make a pitch for funding. It sounds like a movie plot. But it's a networking event at Hunter Mountain next month: Peak Pitch... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 - 8:09 pm
Once again, Alpine Endeavors and Rock and Snow are hosting a four-day ice climbing festival.
Last year was great fun and this year again will have multiple clinics on all the skills and techniques you need to get out on ice - from basic skills, to dry-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 - 9:48 am
The former governor will be speaking at SUNY New Paltz on March 11. Jeremy Blaber's excited about it.
Who likes Gov. Eliot Spitzer more then me?!?!
Definitely not "Manhattan Madam" Kristin Davis, who announced recently that she's running for governor.
"I... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 - 9:22 am
Catskill Mountainkeeper recently hired a new regional director for Delaware, Ulster and Greene Counties: Aaron Bennett, an 11-year veteran of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. Here's the press release.
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