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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 11:01 am
It might not sound like a big deal, but today's dedication of the Catskill Interpretive Kiosk in Mt. Tremper is a cause for celebration, because it's a concrete step towards getting a long-desired Catskills Interpretive Center built on the same spot.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 9:43 am
That's the question the Times Herald-Record's Deborah Medenbach is asking:
The film commission talks about bolstering the local supply of set construction workers with some training programs, but two big questions loom: Will there be enough work to make... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 9:24 am
It's clear that Big Chuck D'Imperio meant well when he penned this column for the Daily Star yesterday. But man, what a misbegotten headline for a story:
Area had its fair share of female "crack makers"
So, what's the article about? Not, as you might... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 6:14 pm
Sullivan County just released a draft of its emergency Hazard Mitigation Plan, based on several years' worth of public meetings, questionnaires and planning sessions with towns and villages.
According to the county's best estimates, if disaster's going to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 5:19 pm
Just published in the Federal Register for Wednesday, September 15: A meeting of the DRBC at the West Trenton Volunteer Fire Company, 40 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton, New Jersey.
There's a lot of boilerplate stuff on the agenda, but this item... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 4:48 pm
A new 14' Raven float rod. A basket full of flies. A beautiful Sunday on the Esopus. What could be better?
Unfortunately for Paul over at the Angling Journal, many of the region's most exquisitely irritating individuals apparently thought so too. While... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Erica Goldson. the valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School's 2010 graduating class, didn't give your standard valedictory speech in June. Instead, she decried the educational system for its flaws and called herself a "slave" of the system, a move... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 10:26 am
Another ATV mishap, although so far, this one isn't fatal: 19-year-old Matthew Sanok was riding in the town of Thompson on Saturday when he hit a pile of rocks and was thrown from the vehicle, reports the Times Herald-Record.
Earlier: Catskill 15-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Times Herald-Record's Steve Israel writes that even though a potential moratorium on gas drilling in New York state will only last until May (and that's only if it's approved by the State Assembly and the governor), nobody will be fracking until next... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 - 11:22 pm
The paywall goes up September 14.
Non-subscribers can still see some content for free, the paper announces:
Without one of the online subscriptions, the number of times that recordonline.com local content can be accessed for free will be limited to three... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 - 10:46 pm
Last we heard, Liberty's free-movies-in-the-park series had been shut down because nobody bothered to get a license from the film-rights company. Then some good Samaritans chipped in to buy the movie rights so it could go on.
Now, it seems, some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 - 6:13 am
Down in Orange County, the last dairy cows in New Windsor went up on the auction block Friday. The Times Herald-Record was there to record another step in the long death march of New York State dairy farming:
The result has been the closing of 207 dairy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 - 9:55 am
Yesterday at 5pm, Roxbury's new full-power FM radio station cut the ribbon on its broadcast headquarters on Bridge Street in Roxbury.
All sorts of local dignitaries were in attendance, inlcluding State Assemblyman Clifford W. Crouch (above left), Chairman... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 5:04 pm
This just in: The CJR is suing the state of New York for access to email correspondence between Gov. Paterson's former PR staff and members of the press. The journal is looking for emails from around the time of an exceptionally weird period of Albany... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 4:30 pm
Public art of a mysterious kind dotted Phoenicia yesterday in the form of notes posted along Main Street ordering passers-by to "notice" things. Things like pear trees and fresh air. Anyone know from whence these winsome reminders come?
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 3:19 pm
A few weeks ago, Daily Freeman publisher Ira Fusfeld announced on WGHQ radio that his Kingston-based newspaper is considering closing its local printing press and mailroom to save money. In a post on his Publisher's blog a week later, Fusfeld tried to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 1:08 pm
Photo of Pushy Galore from B.R.A.W.L.
Tonight at the Bearsville Theatre: Valium-addled housewives and vengeful Puritans in hand-to-hand combat. WWF-style theatrics. Roving packs of vicious cheerleaders. What's not to love?
Since its explosive arrival on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
Ulster County Comptroller Eliot Auerbach, who blogs at the not-so-originally-named Ulster County Comptroller blog, sent up a flare of anger yesterday about this week's announcement that the DEP is buying another 1,323 acres upstate to protect is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 7:35 am
Witchy wares at Palenville's Pagan Pride Day.
Need something to do this weekend? Lucky you -- the Catskills are hosting the biggest mountain-biking event in the world this week, as well as a bunch of fairs, festivals, and exhibits. (Peruse them at your... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 6:14 am
As regular readers of this website will no doubt remember, Tom Murray -- Cobleskill's N-bomb-dropping, national-news-making town supervisor -- has been facing some righteous citizen outrage lately. Much of it is coming from a group calling itself ACCORD (... Read more
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