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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 5, 2012 - 10:43 am
21-year-old Olivebridge resident Joseph Schwall was arrested last Thursday on assault, menacing, reckless endangerment and other charges. Police say Schwall deliberately ran over his brother with a car on Whitfield Road in Accord, before getting out and... 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 Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 - 3:06 pm
Above: Oh, hey, Plattekill! So, it snowed this week, but don't worry, it'll melt in time to muddy up the weekend. Good one, Mother Nature, good one. Photo by Flickr user Oliver Rich, used under a Creative Commons license.
Upstater is reporting this week... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 - 2:04 pm
Above: Former Denning Recycling Manager Ed Mues in happier times. Photo courtesy of Denning Concerned Citizens.
To hear his supporters tell it, Ed Mues was more than a trash man. Mues, recently dismissed by the Denning town board from his job as manager... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 - 11:27 am
Above: A ski lift at Belleayre. Via the Belleayre Mountain Facebook page.
A ski lift at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center malfunctioned yesterday, causing 40 people to have to be evacuated, according to Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 - 11:10 am
Above: A house being built in Windham on February 3 following destruction by last fall's floods. Photo by Hans Pennink for FEMA.
The Windham Journal reported this week that the town of Windham has actually received cold hard cash from the Federal... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 6:44 pm
Above: Jake and Karen Fairbairn in Lazy Crazy Acres's mobile kitchen-on-wheels. Photo courtesy of Lazy Crazy Acres.
The Lazy Crazy Acres recipe for ice cream is deceptively simple: Start with a cow.
Meet small-batch gelato makers, dairy farmers, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 1:20 pm
With a joint Senate and Assembly redistricting task force hopelessly mired in partisan bickering, the once-a-decade Congressional redistricting process is now in the hands of a federal court.
Earlier this week, any hope that feuding Albany pols could... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 1:04 pm
Above: Prattsville depicted in the days of Zadock Pratt on an 1844 postcard, when Pratt's tannery was the biggest business in town. From Wikimedia Commons.
Thanks to Irene, the picture the country has of Prattsville in its collective consciousness is,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 10:42 am
Photo by Flickr user Andres Rueda. Published under Creative Commons license.
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is seeking to pass a bill that would inject new funds into a program that funds doctor training, with preference given to rural areas.
The bill... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Some people sign petitions, stage protests, write congress, when they're unhappy about something. Big Fracas Productions has chosen the time-honored tradition of using music to gather attention and support for their anti-hydraulic-fracturing position (Get... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 5:23 pm
Warning: Gross story, gross picture. Read at your own risk. - Ed.
A serial poop vandal is at large in Delhi. In February, employees of three local businesses found nasty surprises in their bathrooms: cheery messages and random scrawls painted in feces.
So... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 3:45 pm
An Ulster County undercover narcotics investigation has resulted in a raid on Brennie's Pizzeria in Highland, and the arrest of 25-year-old Milton resident Brandon Storms on various drug trafficking charges.
The Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Above: Chris Berry, a paleontologist at Cardiff University, examines the fossilized stump of a Gilboa tree in a quarry at the Gilboa Dam. Photo courtesy of Cardiff University.
Scientists around the world have been waiting for nearly a century to walk... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 10:19 am
This just in from the Shandaken Police Department: On Tuesday, Feb. 28, two Poughkeepsie men, 18-year-old Thomas W. Hyson and 50-year-old Francis M. Sherow III, were arrested and charged with the theft of two cars from the Car Craft Auto Body Shop in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 10:53 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that the vote was 6 to 1, with Dan Spencer as the lone holdout.
The Times Herald-Record has a few more details, including some figures on savings:
Having two lower elementary and one upper elementary building allows for larger... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 - 3:47 pm
Tonight, at 7pm in the Middle School/High School auditorium of Onteora School, the Onteora Board of Education will vote on a plan for reconfiguring the school district. Two of the proposed plans call for the closing of the Phoenicia Elementary School,... 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
By Andrea Girolamo on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 - 4:58 pm
I often see a commercial on TV for a company that provides high speed internet access to rural communities and hard-to-wire places; it tells people who want to sign up to go to a website and fill out a contact form. While that seems like a joke worthy of... Read more
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