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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 - 1:58 pm
More info at the Daily Freeman.
Update from the Freeman: Two dead, one injured.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 - 4:53 pm
We attended the Department of Justice's visit to Batavia to talk dairy today -- you can see our minute-by-minute coverage of the event here. The hearing was an historic one: the first time the DOJ has actually met dairy farmers on their own turf. This... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 - 3:46 pm
The FBI's Albany office has just launched a website called "Bandit Tracker Northeast," on which it lists and maps bank robbery suspects who have struck throughout New York. But it doesn't seem to have the crooks who hit the NBT bank at Grand Gorge in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 - 10:22 am
A descendent of the founders of the resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is now the hospitality directory at a Jewish retirement community in Lauderhill, Florida. In the spirit of Passover, which starts tomorrow, Elaine Grossinger Etess tells the Fort... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 - 1:58 pm
The pretty packages at your grocery store make it look so easy. Don't be fooled: Getting your lovingly handcrafted local food product onto those shelves is a byzantine process that requires sweat, start-up capital, nerves of steel, and, of course, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 - 1:24 pm
There's a tremendous appetite out there for local foods, and it's growing. Farmers are willing to feed the market. A growing network of distributors and retailers is having great success selling food from small farms. But there's a huge gap in the local... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 - 11:42 pm
Google is going to be testing out Google Fiber, an experimental super-extra-fast broadband network, in a few places in the U.S. soon. They've invited communities to make their pitch for why Google should pick them. Kingston Digital Corridor (and Ulster... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 - 11:06 pm
Rape.
Property owners in Sullivan County, NY and everywhere have an absolute right to decide how to use their land. This is America. When your rights and choices impact someone else who did not consent, received no compensation, and given the option,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 - 8:57 am
Last Sunday, Lissa Harris and Julia Reischel of the Watershed Post attended Farm to Market Connection, a networking conference for farmers and food buyers in Liberty, NY. It was a rare view of the local food economy: a community of farmers, foodmakers,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 9:42 pm
As we mentioned earlier today, the Nevele Grande Resort is a shattered husk of the swank resort it used to be. Tonight, we discovered a wicked YouTube mashup that illustrates that fact. (Hat tip to Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record.)
Erik Torres, a... Read more
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