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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 - 11:36 pm
New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen recently spent an evening at the Falcon, an Ulster County venue he describes as an "unlikely jazz haven."
I began hearing about the Falcon four or five years ago, from musicians who had played there. It sounded like... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 - 3:58 pm
Realtor Jennifer Grimes just got her power back on after a week of no electricity--and now the phone's out. Wait, now the power's out again, too. Rats.
Seems a tree fell down behind Brooks’ Chestnut Woods and broke a phone pole. WIll investigate (and... Read more
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 - 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 - 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 Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:45 pm
But not without taking a parting shot in the NYT op-ed pages.
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