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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 11:50 am
Video: They Might Be Giants performs "Canajoharie," a song off their new album Join Us, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, October 2, 2010.
In an interview with Gothamist yesterday about They Might Be Giants' new album release, legendary alt-rocker... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 9:20 am
Photo from Jolly's Facebook page.
In the Saugerties Times today: A peek inside Jolly's Good Grub, a British grocery and lunch shop on Route 212. It's run by a cast of characters that includes a former world-traveling antique dealer who once drove a bus... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 8:48 am
A report of a child drowning in the Rondout Creek in Napanoch had police, fire, and medical emergency responders scrambling to reach the scene in time -- but turned out to be a false alarm.
The 13-year-old boy who called in the report will be referred to... Read more
By wateradmin on Saturday, Jul. 16, 2011 - 2:01 pm
The Gowns for Greenbacks crew atop Wittenberg Mountain, the third peak in their 35-peak quest. From left to right: Melissa Bean, Tom Rolland, Heather Rolland, Danny Davis, Judy Mann, Suzanne Provenzano and Edward Moran.
The Catskill Mountains, those... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:08 am
Ari Gold, a gay pop star, was the target of homophobia on a Catskills-bound Short Line Bus last weekend in an incident that is being compared to Rosa Parks' famous stand in Montgomery.
According to the Village Voice's Michael Musto, who broke the story,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 5:01 pm
In the New York Times today: A paean to East Meredith builder Clark Sanders, who was the first person to build a code-approved straw-bale house, and who has been quietly perfecting the art of building homes out of hay and plaster in Delaware County for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 10:19 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the full story behind the panic-causing disappearance of Moische Dressner yesterday from his Jewish summer camp in Wawarsing. As it turns out, Dressner just didn't like camp, so he ran away. Bosch writes:
Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:18 pm
Tonight, Ann Epner, the program and community arts funding coordinator of the Roxbury Arts Group, announced on her Facebook page that she is leaving RAG to become the new executive director of the Pine Hill Community Center, which will lose its current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
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