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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 2:51 pm
This Saturday, WJFF Radio Catskill is throwing its annual foodie fundraiser, Foodstock, in Callicoon. Get a taste (har!) of what it's like to be in a room with with 50 different food vendors above, with Sabrina Artel, the recently-canonized host of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 2:50 pm
The Woodstock Times reports today that the Onteora middle and high schools will soon be installing 50 video surveillance cameras around campus.
That in itself isn't too surprising -- more and more schools have begun using video cameras to beef up security... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 9:06 am
Thanks to a certain major worldwide news event, Monday's rally in Albany calling for a ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York state didn't get that much press.
WGXC attended the rally, which attracted about 300 anti-fracking protesters and featured... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 11:59 pm
Illustration and caption of gas drilling infrastructure from the DEC's draft "Strategic Plan for State Forest Management," August 27, 2010.
The Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition is suing the state Department of Environmental Conservation in an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 10:48 pm
31-year-old Kingston resident Corey Kotsol was found dead this evening, after being reported missing by his girlfriend earlier in the day. Not many details are available yet, but the Daily Freeman has the story:
Detective Lt. Egidio Tinti, head of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 12:35 pm
The New York Times's Economix blog has a terrific interview today with Charles Fishman, investigative journalist and author of a sobering new book on water called "The Big Thirst."
Fishman's big claim is that what he calls the "golden age of water" is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 11:46 am
Earth to cheese-eaters: Cows have to have babies to make milk. (Shocking, right?)
NYC food videoblogger Liza de Guia shot this little educational video on a recent visit to Calkins Creamery, an artisanal cheese producer in the Upper Delaware River Valley... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 4, 2011 - 10:21 am
New Paltz's famous mayor -- the first Green Party mayor in New York State, and the mayor who made national headlines in 2004 for marrying 25 gay couples in a public ceremony -- is back in office.
West served as mayor from 2003 to 2007, then lost a bid for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 7:51 pm
Brace yourself for more farmstand drama: The Shandaken Town Board has voted 3 to 2 to hold a special meeting, on May 24 at 6pm, to discuss re-zoning a stretch of Route 28 in Mt. Tremper to permit more commercial activity. [Update: The date of the meeting... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 3:31 pm
Two of three women who sued the city of Kingston for sexual harassment have won their cases, according to the Daily Freeman, which has been following the federal trial all week:
The jury today ruled the city and former Public Works Superintendent Steve... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 2:04 pm
Ever heard of a Timberdoodle? It's a bird, writes Jim Planck at the Daily Mail, commonly known as the American Woodcock, and it has the best mating dance ever.
It's the Woodcock's mating season, and the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 3, 2011 - 9:04 am
Today is village election day in New Paltz, and the many candidates are vying for mayor and village trustee amid the kind of goofiness that often happens in a college town. The New Paltz Gadfly, who urges everyone to vote today from noon to 9pm at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 9:44 pm
There's no story on its website yet, but the Daily Star has posted some amazing photos of a fire at Catskill Tractor in Franklin on Facebook.
5/3/11 Update: Today, the Star has full coverage. It seems that the fire didn't hurt anyone:
Wayne Worden, who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 3:43 pm
It's been a banner week for bear sightings in upstate New York -- and not just in the remote, forested areas where bears are a regular fact of life, but in some unexpectedly urban spots as well.
Last Wednesday, a 200-pound young male black bear was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 2:31 pm
A young entrepreneur sells lemonade in front of the Wal-Mart in Catskill yesterday. Photo by Bob Phibbs, via the Lemonade Day Greene County Facebook page.
After weeks of enthusiastic preparations, hordes of kids across Greene County celebrated the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 2, 2011 - 10:27 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has been a busy bee lately. On Friday, it announced that it is opening 6,600 acres of city-owned land for recreational use, and on Saturday, Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record wrote an article... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, May. 1, 2011 - 10:12 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 5:32 pm
Hunters aren't a protected minority just because they carry guns, a state appeals court ruled yesterday in a case involving a Sullivan County hunter who allegedly shot another hunter in 2009.
The case involves a hunter named Robert Robar who, according... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 5:23 pm
No, the sticker above -- which, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been spotted near public faucets around New York City lately -- isn't the work of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. It's part of a pretty slick anti-fracking campaign... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 2:21 pm
The view at last year's TAP festival. Photo by Flickr user Caitlin Regan.
Tomorrow and Sunday, over 40 breweries and hordes of beer-lovers will descend on Hunter Mountain for the annual TAP New York Craft Beer festival. If you love beer, especially beer... Read more
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