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By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:49 pm
So sayeth Dick May in his latest Greene County roundup:
Paganism evidently is alive and growing in GreeneLand. It is practiced with special fervor in Palenville, in a three-acre grove and a venerable 18-bedroom former inn (Central House) that houses the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:43 pm
Why don't more farmers grow nuts? That's what Jerry Henkin, a member of the Northen Nut Growers Association, wants to know. We met Henkin last month at the Farm to Market Connection conference last month in Liberty, NY, where he showed us a slew of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:04 pm
The Catskill Watershed Corporation and HospitalityGreen just announced a joint venture aimed at measuring (and decreasing) the impact of local hotels and B&Bs on the NYC watershed. From HospitalityGreen's press release:
The Green Concierge project is... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The image above is a detail from a map from the USDA, showing growth and decline in farming between 2002 and 2007. Each red dot represents 20 farms lost during those five years; each blue dot is for 20 new farms.
What are Massachusetts and Connecticut... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 11:19 am
Many New Yorkers are looking to halt the march of natural-gas drilling in their vast watershed. Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has the support of dozens of NYC organizations for his "Kill the Drill" campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:35 am
Douglas Kalajian, one of the two writers behind The Armenian Kitchen, has fond memories of the once-large Armenian community that vacationed in the Catskills:
Maybe you think of the Catskill Mountains as the Borscht Belt, but I remember when the heights... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:24 am
Peter Applebome's Our Towns column made a foray upstate to see how the Rosendale Theatre Collective was doing in its quest to buy the town's much-loved theater. Quite well, he reports:
And almost immediately, as if by osmosis, the idea rose for the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:23 am
Ron Lopez, who has a home between Andes and Downsville, saw snow on the ground yesterday. He has a photo to prove it.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:13 am
The final numbers will be decided on May 18 at a Board of Education meeting, but it looks like Catskill plans to cut teachers and raise taxes 2.75 percent. The Daily Freeman has the story.
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Updated: SCCC President Mamie Howard Golladay disputes the Sullivan County Democrat's (and the Watershed Post's) take on the windmill debacle. See the email below.
Sullivan County and Sullivan County Community College are trapped in a contract that... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2010 - 4:37 pm
Nearly 50 years (and four grandchildren) after the fact, a Woodstock local reflects on her 1962 illegal abortion:
They brought me to another doctor to verify that I had just had an abortion. Then they put me in a jail cell in the Bronx with a box of Kotex... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 17, 2010 - 4:21 pm
It's common knowledge around town that Sidney's town supervisor, Bob McCarthy, doesn't care if he gets re-elected. Indeed, one of his first acts as supervisor -- an especially plum job in Delaware County, in which the supervisors rule local government at... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:44 am
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:34 am
Looks like staff shortages at the DEC are delaying the completion of a review of the agency's plans for Marcellus shale gas drilling until at least late summer right in the middle of campaign season. From the Ithaca Journal:
"As with every agency, we are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010 - 11:13 am
In the New York Times today: Catskills vacation home prices are dropping.
Although sellers have not all lowered their list prices to meet buyers’ expectations, brokers estimate that the price for the typical weekend retreat has dropped at least 20... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 11:35 pm
We passed this tattoo parlor's web 2.0 billboard on Rte. 28 outside of Kingston and had to snap a photo. Pat's Tats is definitely online and on Twitter, but so far, it's only got three tweets! Pat, we want more!
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:23 pm
Comix publisher Vertigo reveals a few pages of their upcoming September title, a graphic novel inspired by the incredible true experiences of local painter Inverna Lockpez, and brought to vivid life by comic artist Dean Haspiel. The gist:
From the moment... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 8:31 pm
The Ashokan Center has been forced to scale back somewhat on its ambitious plans for its new arts and environmental education campus in Olivebridge, the Woodstock Times reports. But founders Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are making the best of it:
Alas, Ungar... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 4:56 pm
The Nom Nom Good food co-op in Cooperstown wants a label to reflect that their food is farmed on land that has not been leased for gas drilling.
I am looking for a symbol to put on our advertising to show that we do not support gas drilling, or more... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 10:44 am
Dramatic money worries are in the air today. In the Daily Freeman, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has a plan to save Ulster County $8.6 million with a hodgpodge of measures, including shutting down some local healthcare offices:
Among Hein’s cost-... Read more
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