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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 1:01 pm
A lonely feminist divorcee, a family man wistful for the bachelor life, a woman worrying that the new man in her life will break her heart. You already know these people – and by the time the curtain drops on Closer Than Ever, you really know them.
First... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 11:23 am
A surprising detail ends this story about another watershed-related lawsuit in the Daily Freeman.
Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is suing the town of Shandaken over the town's tax assessment... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 10:48 am
Pigs at the Delaware County Fair. Photo by Joe Damone.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 10:32 am
The new president of the New Paltz School Board, Donald Kerr, was charged with marijuana possession after being pulled over for reckless driving in 2008. Here's what was in his car, according to the Hudson Valley New Paltz Times:
The trooper says that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 11:35 pm
Sounds like Kingston's finest were busy yesterday. The Daily Freeman reports:
Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum said the 17 individuals were arrested as a result of an investigation that has been ongoing since January into the sale of drugs in and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 12:47 pm
Come to think of it, that describes the state of New York pretty well, too.
Ulster County Community College prof Steven Schimmrich, a.k.a. The Hudson Valley Geologist, has detected a glaring basic math error in New York State's formula for community... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 12:11 pm
There's been some pain for just about everybody in the New York State budget this year. But the budget cuts have been especially tough on state-funded arts organizations.
The Catskill Daily Mail has one word for the state of arts funding in New York: "... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 10:43 am
Daily Freeman reporter Paula Ann Mitchell did a little reporting on the annual Hudson Valley RibFest, to be held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds this weekend, and was astounded to learn that Ovarian-Americans would be allowed to participate:
Whoever said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 10:14 am
John Oakley, who was charged with unlawful imprisonment and sexual assault in the case of a woman dragged off into the woods of Phoenicia last month, is no longer being investifated by a grand jury for his role in the incident. Via the Daily Freeman.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 8:13 am
A press release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, sent out yesterday, reports that Jonathan Gutliph has been charged with selling off his dead father's handguns:
On Wednesday afternoon, August 11, 2010, Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 7:53 am
The Kent Family Magic Circus, a traveling troupe of seven family members, was one of the many acts at the Ulster County Fair over the weekend. Victor Kent, father or seven and head of the show, blogged about their day in New Paltz, which included stitches... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Jennifer L. Hart, a serial novelist of the Harlequin variety, just penned a romance novel set in "rural upstate New York along the Delaware River," and it sounds steamy.
Here's the dust jacket blurb for River Rats, as she's calling it:
Set in rural... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 2:04 pm
Don't stash your loot in a squad car. It will be found:
A Loch Sheldrake woman has been charged with felonies after police say she stole diamonds, gold rings and earrings from a home in Loch Sheldrake and then tried to hide the items in the back of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Christopher G. Barcey, 37, died on Sunday while driving an ATV "erratically and at a high rate of speed" in the town of Cairo in Greene County, according to the Daily Freeman. The cops are quoted as saying that drugs and alcohol were possibly involved:
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 1:40 pm
The Daily Mail reports that the Greene County legislature got tough with the members of the Greene County Industrial Development Agency last night over the $175,000 bonus they gave to their executive director, Alexander "Sandy" Mathes, in 2009. Several... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 9:55 am
It's ugly out there in the trenches of the energy wars. Neighbor pitted against neighbor. Rich towns and counties versus poor ones. Angry New Yorkers fearing pollution, disease and death are squaring off against angry New Yorkers desperate for economic... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 9:58 pm
The DEP's spidey senses just got a whole lot keener. The agency is opening a new, state-of-the-art water-testing lab in Grahamsville, and it's stocked with square footage and gadgets, according to a press release sent out today:
The project added 12,000... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 3:44 pm
In today's New York Times: A number of states are thinking about banning felt-soled waders, a piece of gear that's perfect for keeping anglers steady on their feet -- and also for transporting the noxious microscopic algae known as didymo, or "rock snot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 3:06 pm
Because we're in for some serious rain. The National Weather Service warns of thunderstorms throughout the Catskills region this afternoon and into the evening:
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 619 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS NY... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 10:05 am
The folks at Cluckin A Critter Farm in Greenville opined on their blog yesterday that things are looking kind of drought-like in their area:
WOW!!! We're getting rain! I can't tell you how very bad we need this rain. There are a lot of folks around the... Read more
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