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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 10:52 am
According to a press release issued by the State Police, Dayton Harper of Port Ewen was arrested last week after reportedly hurting a 5-year-old child on two occasions. Harper allegedly struck the child and, in a separate incident, threw a toy at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 10:08 pm
If so, it'll be the first since 2006, says the NY Daily News. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced a deal on the budget this afternoon, and it looks a lot like the budget Cuomo proposed back in February:
The budget calls for a 2%... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 12:26 pm
With a glut of vacation houses standing empty most of the year, break-ins are a perennial problem in the Catskills and Hudson Valley. But this one kinda takes the cake: A scrum of (mostly) teenagers allegedly occupied a house on Beaverkill Road in Stone... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 9:02 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here and here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 5:13 pm
With the help of two antiques dealers, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that it has arrested Joseph Hunter and Quinn Gaffney for allegedly stealing antiques on Partition Street in Saugerties and then selling them 100 yards away on Main... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 4:35 pm
Martha Frankel, a Boiceville-based writer, artist and provocateur, shared some intimate memories of the late Elizabeth Taylor with the Daily Freeman this week. Frankel recalls that she met Taylor while strenuously trying not to offend her by making eye... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 11:17 am
The Times Union's Capitol Confidential blog reports that scores of protesters chanted "No Fracking Way" in the War Room of the Capitol building in Albany yesterday, in a show of force that probably reached Governor Andrew Cuomo's ears in the next room... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 8:54 am
Victor Whitman at the Times Herald-Record reports this morning that a onetime casino investor who sold land in Bridgeville to the Seneca Nation for an ill-fated casino project wants both his land back and $15 million in damages. Charles Petri of 3D... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 5:13 pm
Bruce BakerFor the third and final installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Bruce Baker, a marketing consultant who teaches farm and food business people how... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 1:34 pm
In upstate New York, March is dreary season: a month made of mud, sleet, damp, and forlorn hopes for spring. In Brazil, March is Carnaval: riotous color, parades, wild costumes, and the infectious beat of the samba. After months of winter, it hardly seems... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 7:16 am
Sheri Rails: NY State Police
The State Police in Liberty are reporting that a 47-year-old Pennsylvania woman gave them an easy arrest on Sunday when she allegedly raced by their barracks on Rte. 17 at 104 miles per hour while high on a controlled... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Martin ButtsFor the second installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Martin Butts, a Syracuse-based local food advocate and consultant for small food producers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 4:06 pm
It was inevitable, really: After running a colossal three-part series about hydraulic fracturing, the New York Times expressed its opinion about the practice of gas drilling in an editorial published yesterday. In sum, the Gray Lady wants more studies,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 8:47 am
The vernal equinox might have come and gone three days ago, but in typical Catskills fashion, no one has alerted the local weather gods yet. Snow, sleet and high winds are on the way or already raging across the state, and conditions are expected to be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 7:40 am
The Shandaken Police are reporting that Shane T. Hyland, a 21-year-old Margaretville man, was the second assailant in the Friday attack on the residents of an apartment above the Railroad Pizza store on Rte. 28.
Hyland was arrested after being released... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm
Deb KavakosThis year's Farm to Market Conference, a get-together sponsored by Pure Catskills and being held this Sunday in Liberty, is an annual conclave of growers, distributors, marketers, and buyers from all points in the food chain. We attended last... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 12:38 pm
Photo of fire-damaged Phoenicia Library, shared on a local Facebook group by Denise Owens.
The Phoenicia Library may be down, but it isn't out. The librarians announced today that the library will be open starting Saturday in a new temporary location, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 9:37 am
Photo submitted to the Ultimate Fishing Town contest by Kurt Huhner.
In a contest that is eerily similar to Budget Travel Magazine's "coolest town in America" contest, only fishier, the World Fishing Network is asking small towns across the country to try... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 4:39 pm
Photo: Some of the heavy-duty equipment deployed in the perpetual fight to keep Laura Zakotiria-Smith's Wawarsing neighborhood above water. From a photo album on Zakotiria-Smith's Facebook wall.
This just in: New York State lawmakers have agreed to use a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 1:30 pm
According to an article in the Patriot News last Thursday, the creekfront property that belongs to the family of anti-fracking crusader and filmmaker Josh Fox has been cited by Pennsylvania regulators for environmental violations. Fox is the director of... Read more
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