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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 2:42 pm
Tomorrow, New York's Department of Environmental Protection will open boating season with an announcement that it has opened up 33 percent more of the Cannonsville Reservoir -- 1,473 acres between Cannonsville Bridge and the Cannonsville Dam -- to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 11:06 am
Word has reached us that there was a fire at the Cha Cha Hut, a new BBQ joint in Roxbury we profiled recently. We're headed there now to find out more.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 9:53 am
When Courtney Love's daughter, Frances Bean, didn't make the lead in the 2006 show at the intense Catskills summer theater camp Stagedoor Manor, Love acted like any meddlesome stage mom would, according to a new book called 'Theater Geek" by Mickey Rapkin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Could it be true? It scarcely seems possible, after the shambles that thoroughbred racing in upstate New York has become, not to mention the years of fruitless efforts to bring casino gambling to the Catskills. But auto racing trade pubs and local papers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 12:38 pm
We've always hoped to run that headline one day. (Hat tip to Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub.)
The Catskill Daily Mail is reporting that a trio of alleged copper thieves was caught red-handed in the act of stripping the piping from a house in Athens. Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 11:06 am
Kingston Happenings reports that the Kingston Natural Foods Market -- a new project from the folks behind the Kingston Natural Foods Buying Club -- is open for business, and getting ready to celebrate properly in a couple of weeks.
Right now the store is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 3:48 pm
Tonight is the May meeting of the Delhi Central School District Board of Education, which governs a school district that is angrily divided over Delaware Academy High School principal Richard Hughes, who has been accused by some parents of running the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 1:53 pm
An array of local and national celebrities took to the pages of the Times Herald-Record today to wish Levon Helm, who's celebrating his 70th on Wednesday, a happy birthday. Here's Simone Felice (of the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King):
Levon... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 1:05 pm
With the ink barely dry on his change of political party, Sullivan County former Republican David Sager is racking up the county endorsements he'll need to take on incumbent state Senator John Bonacic as a Democrat this fall. The Mid-Hudson News reports... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:30 pm
We're not sure exactly what a "masculine/rustic" home and horse farm entails -- massive encrustations of wood paneling, perhaps? Tartan flannel curtains? Hobos nesting in the rafters? If you've got that certain manly je ne sais quoi about your house and a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 12:06 pm
Blue_Mtn_Photos gets a glorious may-blooming field in Saugerties framed just right. Posted in the Watershed Post photo pool on Flickr.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 11:57 am
Upstate New York is riddled with museums, landmarks, historical sites, preservation societies and the like. But here's one we haven't heard before: An outdoor museum for unspecified objects, consisting mainly of a giant wooden bobcat in a vacant lot.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 9:50 am
Occasional media critic Tom Roe of WGXC checks out two new local newspapers -- the brand-new Greenville Mountain News Pioneer and the fresh-from-a-makeover Greene County News -- and helpfully shreds them for us here in Internet-land. (Neither paper has a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 9:19 am
Ulster County Democratic campaigner and political blogger Jeremy Blaber really, really doesn't want to see Julian Schriebman reelected as Ulster County's Democratic chair. So much so that he's offering $500 in cold, hard cash to any "serious Democrat" who... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 23, 2010 - 3:56 pm
An article in last week's Daily Freeman raised questions about whether U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey used federal funding for personal gain when he got $800,000 for sewage system improvements in the village of Saugerties, where he owns part of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 10:20 pm
The Daily Star reports that Richard Murphy, Democrat of Oneonta, is planning to introduce a bill to ask the state to hold off on hydrofracking until there's more scientific data on its potential risks:
Murphy said he believes that if the state gave... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 2:54 pm
Heirloom apples are harder to come by than Cuban cigars, it seems. Sally Moon tells the story of her 20-year search for Black Twig, which took her all the way to Thomas Jefferson's estate (otherwise known as "the other Monticello").
"What would you like... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 21, 2010 - 9:16 am
It's like pulling teeth to get people to speak up at a vital school budget meeting around here -- but mention cats, and suddenly everybody's got an opinion. The Freeman reports (with video!) on last night's contentious Common Council meeting, at which... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The New York Flora Association is calling on all backyard entomologists to keep a sharp eye out for the rusty-patched bumblebee and the yellow banded bumblebee. If you spot one, let them know.
According to the Xerxes Society, the two bee species are... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 20, 2010 - 1:36 pm
The award for Most Unusual Loss Leader goes to Northeastern supermarket chain Price Chopper, for their recent decision to give away diabetes medication free of charge. YNN reports it's a move to build customer loyalty.
With almost 1 in 10 upstate New... Read more
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