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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the state's intermediate appeals court handed a victory to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a fight with a Windham landowner over watershed development regulations.
According to the decision,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 9:51 am
Bad news: The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), a highly destructive Asian beetle that threatens to effectively wipe out ash trees in North American forests, has been found in a USDA trap in Saugerties.
New York State Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 9:14 am
Two press releases were released by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office this morning about underage "sexual misconduct" in Walton.
The details are scant, but it looks like two teenage boys, and 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, have been arrested and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 5:55 pm
Horseshoe Festival
There are some things that just go together. Abbott and Costello. Rhythm and blues. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes. Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:21 pm
A Jewish summer camp for boys, which was slated to open this week on the grounds of the former Scotch Valley Ski Resort in Jefferson, had to send all its campers home on Sunday, reports the Mountain Eagle.
The camp -- Jewish Boy Zone, which is owned by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Delaware County: Tune into ABC at 8pm tomorrow to see if Stone and Thistle Farm's Denise Warren can handle life in the shoes of a TV-obsessed, diva-licious suburbanite from Oklahoma. The Daily Star reports:
Denise Warren said when she got to her temporary... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 1:12 pm
So said a spokeswoman for Gov. David Paterson's office today, after Greene County appointed an interim treasurer at a meeting last night. According to Daily Mail reporter Susan Campriello, this is an abrupt turnaround for the Governor's Office, which said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 10:42 am
After a spokesperson for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign announced that some prominent Ulster County Republicans were backing Cuomo this week, those Republicans are denying it. The Mid-Hudson News Network has the awkward story:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 10:13 am
The Weekend of Chamber Music doesn't have just any piano for its summer concert series this year -- it has a Hamburg piano. The musicians can't wait to play what's widely considered to be the best instrument in the business, according to The Catskill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 9:44 am
It's official: The drama surrounding Cobleskill's village mayor and town supervisor, who were caught on tape dropping N-bombs, is now national news. The AP has weighed in. So has the Huffington Post.
Mayor Mark Nadeau resigned Tuesday, at a meeting that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 9:41 am
The police have finally tracked down Albert "Burt" Lawing, who is accused of shooting two men in Kingston on July 1. The Daily Freeman has the story.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Governor David Paterson signed a bill aimed at pollution from home heating oil into law yesterday. By mid-2012, the sulfur content of home heating oil in New York State will be dramatically lower. (Two or three orders of magnitude lower, to get scientific... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 6:07 pm
Flickr user mountaintrekker2001 came across this handsome eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) on a recent hike in the Mohonk Preserve. Within a few years, if it's lucky enough to survive, this bright juvenile -- called a "red eft" -- will find a nice... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 4:27 pm
Pete Seeger and Mark Ruffalo were among the citizens calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in Albany yesterday, as part of a protest organized by Frack Action. Frack Action's website has videos of the day's speechifying, including Seeger's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 10:31 am
Do we have to care about Chelsea Clinton's Rhinebeck wedding? Apparently everyone else in the media universe is obsessed.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 10:26 am
Or so Shandaken police believe. Last week, as regular readers may recall, beavers launched a most un-beaverlike attack on some tubers on the Esopus. Jay Braman Jr. reports in the Freeman:
According to James McGrath, the officer in charge of the Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Hudson Valley Film Commission reports that the indie film Francine, starring Melissa Leo as a just-released prison inmate and currently being shot around Kingston, Marbletown and New Paltz, is looking for a few good pets.
Attention Pet Owners: Casting... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 - 8:41 am
According to the Times-Union, Cobleskill mayor Mark Nadeau -- who was caught on tape using the N-word along with Town Supervisor Tom Murray -- resigned in front of a large crowd at a village meeting last night:
He said that he was resigning, in part, to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 5:16 pm
On Monday, Greene County legislators looked into why the Greene County Industrial Development Agency gave its director, Alexander Mathes, a $175,000 bonus last year.
According to Daily Mail, which covered the meeting, IDA's chairman, Paul Slutzky, said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 4:28 pm
On Sunday, being photographed was the last straw for the Capuchin monkey that resides at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast in Catskill. According to the Daily Mail, the monkey slashed the cheek of a Long Island woman who was trying to give it its close-up... Read more
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