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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 9:14 am
A grass-roots community teaching and learning cooperative is having its second meeting ever tonight in Andes, and organizer Laurie "Story Laurie" McIntosh is talking it up in the local newspapers. In an article on Saturday in the Daily Star, McIntosh told... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 1:42 pm
On Friday, town and village officials from municipalities along the lower Esopus, as well as the state Department of Environmental Conservation, met with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to talk about muddy water. Specifically, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 8:38 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.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 7:35 pm
In the New York Daily News today: A glowing profile of Kingston's emerging high-tech microbusiness community, complete with photos of swank lofts, breathless real estate price quotes, and paeans to the city's thriving art scene. (Oh yes. They even used... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 2:19 pm
The Mountain Eagle's Rosie Cunningham penned a thoughtful article yesterday about last week's news that Delaware County is declining to renew the contract of its Stop DWI coodinator, Lisa Barrows.
Notably, Cunningham includes several statements from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 11:07 am
Steve Svidro, a 49-year-old who lived downstairs from his mother in Athens, shot himself in the head after surrounding attempting to torch their house on Thursday morning. The spectacular crime is being reported by the Daily Freeman, the Daily Mail, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 8:44 am
Photo of the Partition Street Wine Shop before the fire, via the shop's Facebook page.
The Saugerties Times has a boot-strapping story this week about how neighbors of the Partition Street Wine Shop in Saugerties rallied to help the store reopen after it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Schoharie-county-based writer and radical homemaker Shannon Hayes, about whom we've written before, took her advice about living simply and hanging launcry to Hudson in November, where WGXC made a recording of her remarks:
Shannon Hayes led a “Radical... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 11:15 am
On Tuesday, the New York Observer ran a beautiful portrait of Lee Hoiby, an 84-year-old composer who is experiencing an unexpected renaissance. The reporter interviewed Hoiby in his home in an undisclosed location in the Catskills, and came away with an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 9:42 am
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation may be strapped for cash and personnel, but it still managed to run a coordinated anti-deer-jacking operation with the Batman-like name of "Operation Dark Night" this fall.
According to a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:36 am
The Daily Mail reports:
CATSKILL — A former Coxsackie police sergeant and substance abuse educator was charged with drunk driving for the second time in the last decade.
Albany police officer Brian Lutz, who was once a Drug Abuse Resistance Education... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:24 am
The Times Herald-Record's Adam Bosch reports that the state Department of Enviromental Conservation is pressuring the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to develop a better plan for releasing water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:38 pm
The future of community FM radio is currently being plotted in the back rooms of the US Senate, in the form of a bill that could dramatically increase the number of licenses available to community radio stations.
The bill has broad support from both the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Photographer Rusty Tagliareni is coming out with a book, he writes on LiveJournal, that will include some photographs of abandoned Catskills resorts. Yesterday, he posted a some images of one of the resorts, along with some tantalizing commentary:
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 10:15 am
The Times Herald-Record reports from Walden, in Orange County:
Police were responding to a report that a car almost hit a pedestrian when officers caught up with a vehicle driven by Gregory Carroll, 38, said Sgt. Eric Metzger.
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 9:59 am
The Daily Freeman's William Kemble reports that officials from towns along the muddy banks of the lower Esopus are meeting with the state DEC today, to hammer out talking points for another meeting to be held Friday with the New York City DEP.
The topic?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
The New York State Police are reporting that two Hancock men, 45-year-old John T. Gurnick and 31-year-old James P. Santicola, were arrested last Thursday in Hancock for allegedly posessing crack cocaine, an illegal handgun, marijuana, marijuana... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:22 pm
Who could have guessed, when the little Delaware County town of Sidney was being painted as a hotbed of bigotry on Comedy Central and MSNBC a couple of months ago, that the town would end up being nationally singled out as an object lesson on how to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:46 pm
A press release issued today by the Delaware Sheriff's Department reports that the county responded to two car accidents on Friday. The release:
December 10, 2010
Sheriff's Deputies investigated a 2 car property damage accident on State 10 in the hamlet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:19 pm
The Poughkeepsie Journal, the Times Herald-Record, and the Daily Freeman have the distressing news that rock/folk legend Levon Helm missed his own gig on Saturday night because he was hospitalized with a cold.
The Journal interviewed Helm's manager,... Read more
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