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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 - 3:34 pm
Ulster County farmer John Fazio has been getting plenty of attention from the Internet lately, thanks to a couple of media mentions: a Food Curated video of his rabbits, and an article in the New York Times on rabbits-as-dinner. The video, which features... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Little Catskills towns have a funny way of messing with your plans. Five years ago, staunch Brooklynites Frank and Cherie Davis settled in Roxbury (population: 2,509), thinking it would be a cozy spot from which to run their web design business. Somewhere... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 6:42 pm
According to Dairy Herd Management, bright prospects for Domino's could be driving up dairy prices nationwide.
Increased pizza consumption may help trim excess cheese supplies and provide a lift for beleaguered dairy producers still reeling from a milk-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 5:55 pm
The Chronogram's Sari Botton profiles the Rosendale Theater Collective, the group that's seeking to buy the Rosendale Theatre from its longtime owner/operators, the Cacchio family. The collective has a lot of fundraising to do to meet their $600,000 goal... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 5:11 pm
That's what Ulster County comptroller Elliot Auerbach claims the proposed budget axe is going to do to Ulster County tourism revenue.
(Ask not for whom the axe tolls: It tolls for Minnewaska State Park, the Kingston Senate House and the Walkway Over the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 4:57 pm
The Catskill Landowners Association issued a press release today stating their opposition to any ban on gas drilling in the New York City watershed that does not include compensation for Catskills landowners.
“The Catskill Landowners Association views... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 10:45 am
Huffington Post contributor Dave Colavito takes aim at Gov. Paterson's decision to spend $6 million on the Concord resort project.
The Concord project is on life-support, and that's being generous, considering it's been a year since any pulse has been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 9:48 am
Blacksmith Steve Kellogg, who teaches at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, recently taught a bunch of SUNY Oneonta grad students how to cast pewter spoons.
Of course in a class like this the pewter spoons are just the byproduct of the larger mission. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 9:15 am
The recently-founded Kingston Neighborhood Watch is getting a lot of interest from residents and local media. Here's an interview with cofounder Mike D'Arcy from the Kingston News videoblog.
The group will be meeting on April 13 to hammer out their... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 11:52 am
With the 2010 Census coming up, Bovina historian Ray LaFever takes a look back at the 1910 Census, and sees some familiar names among the town's 912 listed residents.
Grace Coulter, who later married Dave Roberts and lived on Maple Avenue, was less than a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 11:36 am
Yep, that's for sledding downhill on. The terrifying item pictured above is a jack jumper, recently donated to the Calvin Coolidge House in Vermont. 19th-century Vermont must not have had many lawyers.
Readers: Got any good snow toys in the attic?
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:45 pm
But not without taking a parting shot in the NYT op-ed pages.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:36 pm
Rural towns and outdoorsfolk are up in arms about the Paterson administration's proposal to shutter dozens of state parks--an act that would save the state a few million dollars, a pitiful handful of gravel to toss into the yawning abyss of the state... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:18 pm
Gov. Paterson directed two state employees to contact the woman who accused his aide David Johnson of assaulting her, the New York Times just reported.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 6:50 pm
NYC ag lawyer Cari Rincker recently helped to start a New York chapter of the American Agri-Women Association. She's looking for other digitally connected women in New York agriculture:
New York Agri-Women now has a Facebook fan page and you can follow... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:59 pm
Farmers are rallying in the state capital to oppose a farmworkers' labor bill, the subject of a hearing in the Legislature today.
The North Fork Vue, a Long Island online newspaper, recently published an in-depth piece on the controversy over the bill.... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Fiberglass cats! Board games! Is there nothing the town of Catskill won't try?
Instead of going to jail, as in the original game, players can land in Catskill Town Court.
And the most expensive properties on the board are not Park Place and Boardwalk but... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:11 pm
Great piece in the Times Herald-Record today on the debate over how New York State should count prisoners. Currently, they're counted where they're imprisoned, not where they're originally from, a practice that artificially inflates upstate districts with... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 1:39 pm
The gasmen are coming to town. Among the byproducts of the Marcellus Shale natural-gas drilling boom: a flood of legal work that is already well underway a few miles to the south. The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to PA lawyers about the impact Marcellus... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 1:16 pm
Wanted: New York State travel editor who knows where Gore Mountain is. According to a state tourism guide, it's in the Catskills.
Spotted by eagle-eyed Times-Union reporter Rick Karlin.
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