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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:30 pm
First Kingston was overpaying for welfare services by $40,000. Then that figure became $64,000. Now, according to an audit, it's more like $105,000, according to the Daily Freeman.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:31 am
A sunny moment at Mountain Jam.
This weekend in the Catskills, you can ogle a tractor, quaff a locally-brewed beer, prance in a Pride parade, and mob the stage with the masses at the Mountain Jam music festival.
Mountain Jam Festival - Friday, June 4... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 5:13 pm
New York City has apologized for the leaks from the Delaware Aqueduct that have flooded the town of Wawarsing, but Wawarsing town Supervisor Leonard Distel would really prefer cash. A $4 million bailout bill, to be exact, according to the Daily Freeman.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 3:08 pm
Be the coolest kid at next week's Meredith Dairy Fest: buy a vintage Meridale Fire Department patch on eBay right now for five bucks.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 12:41 pm
Embattled Oorah, Inc., a Jewish organization that runs a summer camp for girls in Gilboa, won a court battle against the town of Jefferson yesterday. The ruling will allow Oorah to go forward with building a matching summer camp for boys on the grounds of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 12:14 pm
But if you're a business in Plattekill or Wallkill, you don't have the option of canceling your service, because Verizon is the only provider in town.
From the Times Herald-Record:
K&J's owner, Joshua Filangeri, had already been hit hard by the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 7:40 pm
American Rivers, a conservation group, put the Upper Delaware on the top of its annual "Endangered Rivers" report today because of pending gas drilling in the watershed. Ramsay Adams, the director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, responded to the news at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 7:03 pm
On Sunday, the Daily Freeman delivered a probing look at Lyme disease, prompted by the story of Saugerties resident Eric Rutulante, who blogs at LymeBites about his 20-year tussle with the illness's various nasty manifestations. One of the revelations in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 2:30 pm
New York City's unfiltered drinking water may be the finest in the world, but it's still not a good idea to mix it with propylene glycol before giving it to schoolkids.
About 80 children at Public School 20, an elementary school in Flushing, Queens,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Sayonara, Steve.
The New York Times reports from the Republican convention in NYC:
Minutes after the vote, Mr. Levy appeared outside a hotel ballroom. As he addressed reporters he was defiant, saying he could not yet support Mr. Lazio because he was still... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Last November, the horse barn at the Delaware County fairground was destroyed by fire. Both of the teenagers who pled guilty to arson in the case are under 18 -- usually reason enough to keep a defendant's name out of the newspaper. But Judge Carl Becker... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 11:30 am
The bear that wandered around Kingston yesterday morning had encounters with several passersby and a "small dog" that chased it into a tree, according to the Daily Freeman. But it didn't help itself to a cup of coffee.
The Freeman story says that one... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 10:48 am
The Liberty Indy bemoans the mighty ruts left behind by local dirt warriors:
For over 4-years we worked hard, hundreds of volunteer hours, thousands of dollars, endless campaigning, all to get this trail opened - and in 30 seconds it all gets thrown out... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010 - 10:11 am
Remember Janet Hicks and Eddie Mullins? Last year, the New York Times wrote the thirtysomething Brooklyn art types into a story about upstate home buyers. (Bonus points to the Times for the title: The New Country Squires.)
Not content to sit around... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2010 - 3:51 pm
Quick, how do you repair the 65 years' worth of decay in the longest tunnel in the world while keeping the billion gallons of water per day it delivers to 9 million thirsty New Yorkers flowing?
Answer: With a fancy computer program and a giant plug.
Today... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2010 - 11:19 am
Flickr user ritchie 59, a woodworker living near Kingston, spotted this wood-sided hot rod with its rat hood ornament in Kingston last week:
someone's custom woodie coupe project.....kingston ny.....old chevy truck body?
Photo used with permission.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2010 - 10:55 am
And you thought that a federal judge blocking Gov. David Paterson's plan to furlough 100,000 state workers was good news. Nope, reports the New York Times. Now that he can't save money with furloughs, the governor has to outright lay off 10,000:
Days... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jun. 1, 2010 - 10:45 am
A wild party on Beaverkill Rd. on Sunday led to a whopping 13 arrests for underage drinking, report the Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman. (One of the underage drinkers who was arrested rammed a car into a police car and then fled the scene.) Now... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 31, 2010 - 8:13 pm
In honor of the holiday, Bovina historian Ray LaFever looks all the way back to the Civil War:
Bovina lost eleven young men in the actual war: Sinclair Burns, Andrew G. Chisholm, Solomon Coulter, Robert Dysert, James C. Elliott, Thomas Elliott, William T... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 31, 2010 - 6:04 pm
Are we living in a "dollar-store economy?" That's what the Times Herald-Record asked yesterday in a story about the opening of new dollar stores in Livingston Manor, Florida and Wallkill. The answer is a resounding yes:
While more upscale retailers... Read more
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