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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012 - 5:18 pm
Above: Making syrup. Photo by QUOI Media Group, via Flickr.
Two weeks of maple syrup mania begin this weekend, and maple producers across New York State will be celebrating with open houses, pancake breakfasts, and lots of the sweet stuff.
It would take... 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 - 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 - 10:41 am
Photo: The Wanatuska Moguls at Belleayre on Tuesday, March 13. From Belleayre Mountain's Facebook page.
The New York State Senate has staked out a position on the Belleayre Ski Center in their budget proposal: They're willing to let ORDA have Belleayre,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 11, 2012 - 1:57 pm
Above: Sunrise over Belleayre this morning. Photo from Belleayre Mountain's Facebook page.
Not included in the New York State Assembly's 2012 budget proposal: Money for ORDA to take over the management of the Belleayre Ski Center, currently operated by... 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 Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 - 3:19 pm
Mike Hein's Facebook page: Now a DEP-free zone.
The latest skirmish in Ulster County executive Mike Hein's ongoing war with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is being fought on the battlefield of social media.
Capital Tonight... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 - 12:56 pm
Shandaken's Republican town supervisor, Rob Stanley, just wants to marry his secretary's daughter -- to her fiancee, that is.
This week, the Shandaken town board passed a resolution making Stanley a marriage officer, so he can preside over the upcoming... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 - 12:06 pm
This week, at the town of Shandaken's regular monthly board meeting: The continuing saga of the Bridge Street Bridge, flood mitigation, Pine Hill applies for historic district status, supervisor Rob Stanley gets into the marriage business, plans for new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 9, 2012 - 10:53 am
Levon Helm may be a national treasure, but here in the Catskills, we think of him as our own. The four-time Grammy-winning musician has called Woodstock home since the 1960s, and his famous "Midnight Ramble" sessions draw musicians and rock acolytes to... Read more
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