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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:31 pm
DC Bureau, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, reports that Congressman Maurice Hinchey is denying knowledge of his wife's recent work on behalf of a Texas landmen's organization.
For at least two years of their marriage, Hinchey’s wife, Allison Lee,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 11:55 pm
Pure Catskills, the local-food-and-farms program run by the Watershed Agricultural Council, is running a photo contest. Instructions from their blog:
Each photo entered will:
• Feature a local farm and/or food theme
• Feature a location or a business in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:50 pm
Best story yet in the relentless barrage of news coming out of Cooperstown: NYT reporter/heir A.G. Sulzberger breaks a date to cover the story (haven't we all?), orders a Diet Coke (but he's so slim already!), and worries about costing his father's multi-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:24 pm
Nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica, whose reporter Abraham Lustgarten has been writing exclusively about the risks of horizontal natural gas drilling since 2008, has a new gas story today. At hand: the EPA's upcoming two-year study of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:34 pm
Maria at the New Paltz Gadfly takes aim at a proposed noise ordinance in her fair city:
The new proposal requires a permit from the Village Board to attract public attention using any noise (2-5 F, 2-9 A, B). This one is pretty convenient at keeping... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:07 pm
Ah, the miracle of modern digital photography. This may look like an Instamatic print from a battered box marked "Spring 1967," but this nostalgia-hued snapshot of the ice on North-South Lake was taken last week.
Photo by Flickr user Catskills Grrl. All... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:24 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that when a bear tried to crawl into a Parksville house on Sunday, the woman inside made three calls: to the state police, to the Department of Environmental Conservation, and to her grandfather. Unluckily for the bear,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:56 am
Bird-watching fanatic Corey Finger, a Saugerties ex-pat who now lives in New York City, spent his Easter morning tromping around the swamp. He got some great bird photos and a shot of a tree-dwelling porcupine:
I went for a drive to the Great Vly, a large... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:13 pm
It probably isn't news to locals that in Ulster County, the city of Kingston pays for the lion's share of Safety Net, a statewide welfare program. In most of the state, the buck stops with the county. Not so in Ulster County, which bills towns for half... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 7:53 pm
The Pollyanna of the Week award goes to the Daily Star and its unnamed teenage sources, for their weirdly chipper Day 5 take on the Cooperstown shooting: "Most students unfazed by Cooperstown shooting."
But for most students, Monday was a normal day,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 7:09 pm
Monticello, the Sullivan County village whose mayhem and machinations lately have been worthy of prime-time on HBO, continues to be wracked with political intrigue. The latest, in the Times Herald-Record: Twice-ousted village manager John Barbarite, a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 5:14 pm
It turns out that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade on behalf of New York City drinking water only targeted about 10 percent of the drugs that humans flush down the toilet. The other 90 percent, according to an article in Time Magazine this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:14 am
Say you're in the area of Oneida, Madison, Otsego, Broome, Chenango, Montgomery and Schoharie counties. You're having a tough time getting tourists excited about visiting. "Leatherstocking Region" just isn't bringing in the crowds like it used to. What do... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 11:14 pm
Reporters from across the state were hard at work over the Easter weekend, hoovering up any available details to try to explain Friday's horrifying shooting in Cooperstown.
WKTV in Utica found a parent of a black child who says bullying and racism are a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 10:32 pm
Steve Schimmrich, the Hudson Valley Geologist, took advantage of the spectacular weather to hike in Minnewaska State Park on Good Friday.(He got some great pictures, too.)
Having a Ph.D in geology has its benefits: Where most of us probably would have... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a 34-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, was shot in the wee hours of Monday morning and died en route to the hospital.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 5, 2010 - 9:38 am
Updated DEP regulations, in the works for several years, went into effect over the weekend. The Daily Freeman has a story.
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 3, 2010 - 9:54 pm
White shooter, black victim. Without more facts, it's impossible to say why authorities are suspecting a racial motive to yesterday's dramatic showdown at the Cooperstown police station, but that's what the AP implies.
It began when the white teen stepped... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Treadwell resident Linda Norris, who blogs at The Uncataloged Museum and is in the Ukraine on a Fulbright fellowship, reflects on village life in two continents.
I realized yesterday that there's one big difference between villages in the United States... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 2, 2010 - 8:33 pm
It sounds like a scene from an old Western: One teenager shoots another, then himself, in the Cooperstown police station.
Cooperstown Police Chief Diana T. Nicols said it all began when a car crashed into the iron gates just outside the National Baseball... Read more
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