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By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 4:33 pm
I totally agree with Cole Porter: I love Paris in the springtime. Since it's neither spring time, nor are we in Paris, why not break up the work week with a trip to the Middleburgh library for a matinee screening of Woody Allen's acclaimed "Midnight in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 4:16 pm
Map of area showing a proposed ban on gas drilling in or near NYC watershed land and infrastructure.
Above: A map of areas that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to place off-limits to gas drilling, in upcoming... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 3:30 pm
Across northern Schoharie County, mysterious BB-gun shooters are taking aim at cars and trucks, and no windshield is safe.
Despite the January arrest of four men in connection with the incidents, the BB shootings go on, the Times Journal reports:
State... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 2:38 pm
In the LA Times today (and other papers across the country) is a feature story about how the hot-button issue of hydraulic fracturing is dividing neighbor from neighbor in upstate New York.
And brother from brother: Reporter Neela Banerjee illustrates... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 2:13 pm
Photo of barn, fence and field in Kiamesha Lake by Catskills Photography. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
The Obama administration announced three new initiatives to benefit the rural economy, including a $15 million "Rural Jobs Accelerator"... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 10:44 am
Mark your calendars, Shandaken: This Thursday, Feb. 23, the town board will hold a hearing on a much-debated farmstand law. The meeting will be held at 6pm in the town hall on Route 28.
The proposed law would govern all farmstands in Shandaken, but the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - 4:00 pm
The Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on one of three possible reconfiguration plans for the district on February 28. Two of the proposed plans call for the closing of the Phoenicia Elementary School, either with clustering of the elementary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - 12:22 pm
Above: A video from the Daily Freeman about a new exhibit in the Ulster County Clerk's Office, telling the stories of people who had their property seized over a century ago to build the Ashokan Reservoir.
The Freeman reports today that a new exhibit at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - 11:36 am
Kingston teenagers Dayshawn K. Allen, 17, and David M. Erickson, 18, were arrested around 3am this morning after Ulster County sheriff's deputies found them breaking into a car in the town of Esopus.
Allen and Erickson face misdemeanor charges of criminal... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 - 11:44 pm
Above: A Belleayre Mountain ski lift on February 19, the day after five workers caused delays on the slopes by calling in sick. Photo via the Belleayre Mountain Facebook page.
Three lift mechanics and two electricians called in sick from their jobs at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 4:09 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that Sullivan County police are looking for a man who robbed the First National Bank of Jeffersonville on Route 55 in Eldred around 10:20 this morning.
A description of the man:
He is described as being about 40-50 years of... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 3:35 pm
The MARK Project's annual Louisiana Saturday Night is upon us! Tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, the Roxbury Arts Center will host a Cajun/Creole cook-off, and dancing to the music of Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers. Organizers say this is one of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 1:11 pm
Photo by Flickr user Darwin Bell. Published under Creative Commons license.
We've noticed a bunch of interesting job postings cropping up lately in the world of local food and restaurants.
(Does this bode well for the local food economy? Impossible to say... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 11:48 am
Photo by Flickr user ucumari. Published under Creative Commons license.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the DEC's recent proposal to introduce bobcat hunting into new parts of New York State, and extend trapping season in some areas. The story drew plenty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 11:03 am
An early-morning one-car accident on Route 208 in Shawangunk left 18-year-old passenger Faryn Presutti of Wallkill with a broken leg and possible internal injuries. Driver Alysia Quick of New Windsor, also 18, has been arrested on charges of DWI,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 12:36 am
With the clock ticking on a deadline set by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state officials and teachers' unions have brokered a deal that will create a new system for evaluating teachers.
The New York Times reports that Cuomo threatened to use his gubernatorial... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 6:41 pm
If the Foxhall Ambulatory Surgical Center did not provide abortions, there would be no reason for it ever to have been built. But the Daily Freeman reports that the clinic currently has no abortion provider, and is unable to find a replacement.
Foxhall... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 4:36 pm
Illustration of brown trout, by NOAA. Published on Wikimedia Commons.
Every two years, the state Department of Environmental Conservation tinkers with fishing regulations. This year, the DEC is recommending several changes that could affect fishing in... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 4:07 pm
Above: Bees keeping the pollination cycle moving. From Wikimedia Commons.
If you're a fan of our fine, flying ecosystem-sustaining buddy the honeybee, perhaps you've been wondering how to start your own hive, or otherwise indulge an interest in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 11:52 am
Editor's note: The Freshtown supermarket in Margaretville, owned by the Katz family, was flooded during last August's Tropical Storm Irene. Six months later, it is still closed. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor,
I took a ride today, to Prattsville. I haven'... Read more
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