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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 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 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 - 11:52 am
Photo by Flickr user Dennis Wilkinson, who baked all these pies himself yesterday, and is entering two of them in this year's Serious Eats Pi Day baking competition. Published under Creative Commons license. Feel like celebrating? It might be the glorious... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 - 9:57 am
On Monday, March 12, a driver lost control of a car headed southbound on Route 17 near Monticello, plunging down a steep embankment, rolling several times, and killing a passenger. Driver Michael Messineo, a 58-year-old resident of Liberty, stands charged... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 10, 2012 - 11:18 pm
Photo by Flickr user Dave Stokes. Published under Creative Commons license. Don't forget to set your clocks forward an hour -- Daylight Saving Time starts at 2am on Sunday, March 11. Readers: Are you looking forward to that extra hour of light in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 5, 2012 - 9:52 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a new supermarket is coming to site of the former Liberty Great American, shuttered since last summer: NSA Supermarkets, a Brooklyn-based company, is in the process of buying Great American's North Main Street... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 3:02 pm
Above: FEMA External Affairs Interns inspect the recovery effort in Prattsville on Feb. 22, 2012. Photo by Hans Pennink. Wednesday is the deadline for New York State towns and counties to submit lists of properties for a federal buyout program. Under the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 10:01 am
Above: WBNG-TV forecast of a winter storm headed for the Northeast later this week. Looks like Old Man Winter's finally woken up at last: A big snowstorm is barreling towards us from the Midwest, and will start dumping some sleet and snow on upstate New... Read more

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