Ulster County
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 25, 2012 - 1:43 pm
Photo by Lynda Shenkman Curtis for Oxygen House Photography. From Sloan Wainwright's website.
It must be spring: The Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia is alive with the sound of music once again. Flying Cat Music, a small independent music series... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 23, 2012 - 12:09 pm
A Long Island man was arrested this week on charges that he assaulted a woman at his Wawarsing hunting camp and threatened her with a shotgun. State police announced the arrest of 52-year-old Oceanside resident Tracy Vierra on Thursday, March 22:
The New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 2:59 pm
Above: The Watershed Post's resident rooster, Wellington. He's good company out here in rural Delaware County, but we're guessing he wouldn't fit in too well in your average tiny Kingston backyard. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Looks like the urban-farming... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Mar. 22, 2012 - 12:42 pm
A close neighbor died very recently. That is a simple, but profoundly sad, statement of fact. Those few words are difficult to write when they concern someone you knew, cared about and greatly respected.
Elizabeth and Patrick Kern penned something... 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 Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2012 - 8:43 pm
Two suspects have been arrested in the investigation of a burglary of a West Shokan home on March 17, in which the victim was strangled and sustained minor injuries.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office announced that a 29-year-old homeless woman, Kristen D... 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 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
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