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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 4:23 pm
From the Times Herald-Record.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 3:11 pm
A curator at the National Museum of American History has spent three years trying to answer a question that has perplexed scientists and historians: Was Levi Hill a fake?
Hill, a 19th-century Baptist minister in West Kill, claimed to have invented color... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 10:52 am
That's filmmaker Jessica Vecchione, discussing the making of her flim "Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns" last night at the Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.
The screening of the documentary, which is about the village of Fleischmanns in Delaware... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:14 pm
Looks like GOP hopeful Steve Levy wants to make it a campaign issue:
“The folks up here in this region I see like the potential of economic development and they are going to monitor this because this is their drinking water and lake systems. We've got to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 9:03 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston mayor James Sottile and legislator David Donaldson are pushing for Ulster County to take over all Safety Net payments. (Ulster County is the only county in New York State that bills individual municipalities for the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 8:17 pm
From the Times Herald-Record:
Kingston detectives on Monday arrested Curtis Williams, 36, outside his home at E. 168th Street in the Bronx. Williams was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.
Police had been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
Another fracking movie, this one called "Gas Odyssey," makes its worldwide debut this week in Binghamton. (See our calendar listing for details.)
From the trailer, which is sadly impossible to embed, it looks like the film explores why the people of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 - 12:59 pm
In Monticello, the Times Herald-Record reports on the not-too-crafty ruse: sell someone the TV you are renting from Rent-a-Center, and then report it as stolen.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Three people were burned this afternoon in an explosion at Steyers Hudson Valley Auto on the Malden Turnpike in Saugerties.
From the Daily Freeman:
State police said one of the mechanics at Steyer’s Hudson Valley Auto, Inc. at 468 Malden Turnpike was... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 5:28 pm
Why can you buy mango popsicles and fresh cactus leaves in the tiny rural village of Fleischmanns, the onetime summer stronghold of the decidedly non-tropical Fleischmanns yeast dynasty?
Filmmaker Jessica Vecchione and a panel of sociologists and... Read more
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