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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 2:54 pm
Winter is icumen in. Photo of frost on leaves by Flickr user s.alt. Published under Creative Commons license.
This year, a federal program that one in five New York State households rely on to help pay their winter heating bills is likely to face drastic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 - 9:37 am
Above: A photographic tour of the enormous apple cider press at the Hubbell homestead. Click on the slideshow to open the the tour in a separate window. Photos by Julia Reischel.
It’s a good year for apples in the Catskills. Call it the silver lining of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 - 8:53 pm
Dana Elizabeth Rice
Ulster County detectives are searching for 54-year-old Kingston resident Dana Elizabeth Rice, missing since September 29, 2011.
From a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
On 10/4/11, this agency began examining... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 - 8:04 am
Above: Flooding in Ulster County in September. Photo from the New Paltz Flood Aid website.
Ulster County was hit hard during the flooding caused by the double whammy of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee at the beginning of September. New Paltz Flood Aid, an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 - 10:12 am
Video: Part 1 of A Pickup Load of Pigs: The Feral Swine Pandemic, a three-part series produced by the Mississippi State University Extension Service. More from the series available here.
Feral pigs are gaining a foothold in western Sullivan County and... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 3:46 pm
Photo of temporary housing units in North Carolina by FEMA.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced last week that they are delivering temporary housing units to Cobleskill, to be distributed to flood victims in New York State who cannot find... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011 - 9:03 am
Photo by Flickr user D. Sharon Pruitt. Published under Creative Commons license.
The Associated Press reports that although the recent flooding has stirred up New York City's water system considerably, and required the city to do some extra chlorination,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 12:28 pm
The Onteora School District could be broke by 2016, according to a financial expert who addressed the school board on Wednesday. According to the Daily Freeman, Richard Timbs, the financial advisor, had dire news:
If the district continues on its present... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 - 9:50 am
Above: Locations of upcoming public hearings on the DEC's new draft gas drilling regulations.
On Wednesday, September 28, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation riled environmental and anti-driling groups by issuing drafts of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 - 6:05 pm
Above: Screenshot of the Central Hudson Storm Center outage map, 6pm.
The power is out across Woodstock, Olive, and West Hurley this afternoon, according to Central Hudson's outage map. Thousands of households are affected, according to the map.
We are... Read more