Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:21 am
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012 - 10:25 am
Above: WNYT's report on the fire at the Red Barn Restaurant in Summit on Monday.
Today's forecast for the Catskills region is looking pretty soggy -- but earlier this week, dry weather and high winds were a recipe for increased risk of fires.
Several... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 26, 2012 - 11:36 am
Above: Pea seedlings at WP HQ under a blanket of straw. Temperatures in New Kingston, on the eastern edge of Delaware County, are predicted to drop into the teens tonight. Photo by Lissa Harris.
March came in like a lamb, and it's going out like a lion.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 2:44 pm
The Bread and Puppet Theater. Photo by Jack Sumberg, via the Bread and Puppet website.
Revolution has been in the air all year, and in the village of Catskill, it's in all the shop windows. The Wall Street to Main Street project is a combination art... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 9:45 am
Above: Carl Chipman, supervisor of the town of Rochester, and Art Snyder, the director of Ulster County Emergency Management, displaying a map of Rochester Chipman used during Irene to coordinate emergency response at the disaster officials workship this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2012 - 12:17 pm
Above: New York State's new 19th Congressional district. Detail from a document posted on Scribd by Politicker reporter Colin Campbell; embedded below.
It took a federal court to get it done, but New York State finally has its Congressional districts... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012 - 8:25 am
A small plane went down near Jennings Road in New Baltimore on Sunday, March 18, leaving its solo pilot with minor injuries, several news outlets are reporting.
The Daily Mail has an account of the crash, and a photo of the crashed plane -- a 2/3-scale... Read more
Dairy dossier: Tax breaks for working girls, the low price of NY milk, and Chobani's dangerous plant
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012 - 3:53 pm
Born to depreciate. Photo by Flickr user Benjamin Golub; published under Creative Commons license.
Q: How is a milk cow like a fax machine?
A: She can be written off as a business expense. And under a new federal law proposed by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 - 5:26 pm
Photo by Flickr user K's GLIMPSES. Published under Creative Commons license.
Selling secondhand items in Greene County? Not so fast, lawmakers say.
Some Greene County legislators want to pass a law requiring secondhand shops, auction houses, and scrap... Read more
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