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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 10:40 am
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that Hurley resident Evan Stauble, who had been missing since July 1, was found dead on Sunday.
Kingston police were the last to see Evan Stauble, walking across the Route 9W bridge that connects Kingston to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Rich Blake, blogging at the hedge-fund-oriented Hedgeworld, begins a critique of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac with a meditation on the repairs he has to do on his Big Indian cabin:
I own a tiny, cottage-style house in Ulster County, New York, in a valley... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 5:13 pm
Downy mildew on a basil plant: From the Cornell Dept. of Plant Pathology website. It's downy, it's mildew-ey, and it's out to wilt your basil, the Times Herald-Record reports:
It's called downy mildew, and it's infecting basil plants across New York, as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
Thanks to state Assemblyman and Attorney General hopeful Richard Brodsky, who has been demanding to know why quasi-public agencies have been handing out bonuses to their executives, we now know that Alexander Mathes, the executive director of the Greene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:41 am
Yesterday morning, two men allegedly sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman at the Silver Hollow Cabins in Phoenicia, according to the Daily Freeman. Scariest part? They also are accused of dragging her off into the woods. Desmond McCobb and John Oakley... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 9:14 pm
The Monticello Wal-Mart has begun seriously beefing up its kosher section. But Sullivan County's independent kosher shops aren't being caught napping by the 800-pound retail gorilla: They're confident they can serve their niche market better. The Times... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 5:19 pm
The Bishopp Family Farm's blog, "The Grass Whisperer," has another sweet tribute to late Schoharie beef farmer David Huse, who died last month in a tractor accident:
A large, skylight provided a mottled scene over my friend’s casket, as I sat in the pew... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 4:52 pm
I don't know how I missed this last week, but New York City is now selling a line of "NYC water products." That's right: Water glasses, coasters, and carafts decorated with a slogan -- "Drink NYC Water" -- that celebrates the unique and special nature of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 10:49 am
A new report from the state Department of Environmental Conservation gives New York low marks for recycling, the Times Herald-Record's Adam Bosch reports.
On average, the United States recycles about 33 percent of its municipal solid waste, not including... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 7:59 pm
David Radovanovic, who writes a blog about Saugerties, experienced discrimination against canines firsthand today when he walked his dog Stevie through the Sawyer Motors Car Show. Perturbed, Radovanovic eventually found justice in the form of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 12:06 pm
A few years shy of a century ago, Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Jewish families from Fleischmanns and Margaretville. Its 1918 incorporation date makes the historic synagogue, located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, one of the oldest in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 11:47 am
Roxbury's Stone Tavern Farm, which boasts "the darkest skies within 300 miles of New York City," hosted the Amateur Observers' Society of New York's annual Starfest this weekend. In attendance: The Westport Astronomical Society's 25" Obsession telescope,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 2:59 pm
The 24-year-old Hurley man went missing on July 1, and his family's very worried.
Evan Stauble, 24, vanished shortly after his family moved him to Ulster County from New Jersey, where he had been living in a mental health facility. His family said Stauble... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 2:00 pm
We're sure the NYC DEP is very anxious for the public in their upstate watershed to be well-informed about what's going on with important local watershed issues, like their controversial land acquisition program.
That's probably why they put out a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Politicoblogger Jeremy Blaber repeats a rumor that James Sottile has had enough of being unpopular, and isn't going to run for reelection.
With Mayor Sottile being forced out of the race, the field of Democrats will widen. James Noble, Bill Reynolds, Mike... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 12:45 pm
A tour group gets a close-up look at a manure storage barn, on a Watershed Agricultural Council bus tour of farms in the New York City watershed.
On June 3, a few dozen curious people boarded a chartered bus in Delhi, donned plastic booties, and set out... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 11:55 am
On Wednesday, the Woodstock Playhouse Board President, Joan Spitz Roberts, put out a plea on the Playhouse's Facebook page in which she begged for help staving off a looming foreclosure:
In February 2010 one of our Mortgagors felt it necessary to begin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 11:09 am
The New York Times accompanies a gaggle of fathers and daughters up the cliffs, and then afterwards to New Paltz, all the while congratulating itself on its touristic originality:
This was a departure from an otherwise typical tourist itinerary in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 9:02 am
Careful on the roads, folks. From NOAA:
FLOOD WATCHNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY340 AM EDT FRI JUL 9 2010NYZ032-033-038>040-042-047-082-092200-/O.NEW.KALY.FF.A.0002.100709T0740Z-100711T0000Z//00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Yes, it's already the weekend -- no doubt you're still digesting those candied apples and that funnel cake from the Fourth. But there's no rest for the hungover or the over-carnivaled: There's some awesome stuff to do this weekend. Here's what we're... Read more
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