Sullivan County
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 Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2012 - 2:56 pm
The wife of a man on trial for murder in Kalamazoo, Michigan has testified in court that her husband confessed to her that he committed the unsolved 1996 slaying of Demetrius Carter in a North Branch boarding house.
Besham Brian Sugrim, a former Sullivan... 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 - 2:01 pm
British R&B master James Hunter is playing in a quiet corner of Sullivan County tonight to raise money for the anti-fracking efforts of Catskills Citizens for Safe Energy. At $20 a pop, the entrance fee is a steal to see Hunter, who was nominated for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 10:09 am
Photo from the Halls Mills Covered Bridge blog. Reproduced by permission.
The Halls Mills Bridge in Neversink was luckier than the Old Blenheim Bridge over the Schoharie Creek -- it survived Irene's ravages mostly intact.
But the stone pier that supports... 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 Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 11:56 am
From the Hudson Valley Film Commission: A film company shooting in Sullivan County later this month is looking for cast members on short notice to play several roles in their short film, "My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain."
One very specific role they're... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 16, 2012 - 10:18 am
Above: Raw video from a fire at a yeshiva in Kiamesha Lake from the Times Herald-Record.
On the evening of Thursday, March 15, a massive fire broke out in the dormitory of a boys' yeshiva (a Jewish religious school) in Kiamesha Lake near Monticello. The... 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
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