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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 16, 2011 - 9:16 am
Gunshots were exchanged during a fight last night on Broadway in Monticello, scattering nearby pedestrians, says the Times Herald-Record:
The fight broke out around 7 p.m. near the intersection of west Broadway and Forestburgh Road. One of the men... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 - 6:13 pm
If you're invested in the future of farming and local food in upstate New York, you'll want to seize the chance to catch a local screening of "The Greenhorns," a documentary about young farmers out to reclaim American agriculture from the roots up. The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 - 12:48 pm
9:30pm update, by Julia Reischel:
The early-morning fire that destroyed part of the former Fleischmanns School today was probably sparked by an electrical problem in the basement of the building, Fleischmanns fire chief Todd Wickham said this evening.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 - 12:29 pm
Top: Rick Bennett as Goering and Mikhail Horowitz as Spinoza in a rehearsal for Midget in a Catsuit Reciting Spinoza, opening this weekend in Woodstock. Photo provided by the Woodstock Players. Above: Carey Harrison talking about the play in a video... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 - 9:01 am
Gary Mayer's Potshots cartoon about casinos in Bridgeville, Sullivan County.
A nit-picky rule for Indian casinos was thrown out the window yesterday, when the federal government announced that it will no longer reject potential Indian casino projects for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 - 10:42 pm
Harpo, a White Crested Polish chicken, is just two weeks old, but already practicing the patented Inscrutable Chicken Face. Thanks to Bovina resident Lynne Resch (also the proprietor of Two Stones Realty) for the photo.
By Lillian Browne on Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 - 2:36 pm
Tay Home founder Nini Ordoubadi with a portrait of her aunt and inspiration, Noushafarin Saad. Photo provided by Nini Ordoubadi.
On the Saturday before Memorial Day, the Tay Home tea shop celebrated its grand reopening in a new location that has turned... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 - 11:52 am
Thanks to a presidential declaration made on Friday, Delaware and Ulster counties are now eligible for federal disaster-relief funds for the storms that swept much of New York between April 26 and May 8. Remember those tornado warnings and flooding alerts... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 - 9:32 am
A missing person flyer for Zach Green. Image via the Find Zachary Green Facebook page.
The body pulled from the Esopus Creek in Kingston on Sunday has been identified as the missing Saugerties resident Zach Green, according to the Times Herald-Record and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Tractor Day, 2011. Photo by Jill Ogden. Used with permission.
Last Thursday was "Tractor Day" at Delaware Academy in Delhi, which means that the segment of the student body with the most rural pride drove to work in and on farm machinery, sometimes from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 1:29 pm
This just in from the state political blogs: The New York state legislature is expected to vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage sometime in the next few days.
From the New York Times:
On a day of fast moving developments, the Cuomo aide,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 11:56 am
It's a big news day for larcenous shenanigans in Kingston: Details have just emerged about a scheme to part developmentally disabled residents of a group home from their paychecks, and an Ulster County grand jury has just indicted a former Kingston cop on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 8:47 am
A body lodged between logs in the Esopus Creek in Kingston was found by a boater yesterday, and nobody is sure whether it is the remains of Zachary Green, who has been missing from Saugerties since January.
The Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 2:49 pm
A victimless (and potentially seedless) crime happened this morning on Highway 30 in the town of Schoharie, according to a Schoharie County Sheriff's Office press release. A tractor-trailer loaded with watermelons reportedly overturned on the highway. No... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 11:24 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see Gary's artwork in person, check out his May - June show at the West Kortright Centre. (And for more on what's going on with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 6:54 pm
Teeny-tiny Hardenburgh (population: 208) is used to being ignored. With less than three people per square mile, the smallest town in Ulster County is so remote and underpopulated, it doesn't even have its own ZIP code.
With less than a tenth of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 3:45 pm
Tomorrow, Neversink Farm is Claryville is hosting a big riverside communal dinner where the idea is to consume the fruits of the land right on the land itself. And these fruits of the land will be expertly prepared by NYC chef Patrick Connolly, who... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 3:02 pm
Design of the proposed Woodstock Commons housing project. Image from the RUPCO website.
The second of two lawsuits filed against a planned Woodstock housing project has been dismissed, according to the Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman.
Once again... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 11:39 am
Above: A storm looms over the Catskills in Delhi. Photo by Flickr user Max Talbot-Minkin.
The recent weather nutsiness -- particularly the tornado warning for Delaware County two weeks ago -- inspired our occasional poetical contributor (and SUNY Delhi... Read more
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