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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 - 3:02 pm
Ellenville's floundering, decrepit, once-glittery Nevele Grande Resort has been sold. Finally.
Brooklyn builder Raphael Weiss of Tricon Development partnered with the Giluet Foundation is in contract to buy the resort from the Stratford Business... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 - 10:53 am
In an interview with Big Gay Hudson Valley, WAMC's Hudson Valley bureau chief, Susan Barnett, gets just a little too smug with the regional pride.
Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware counties are absolutely lovely and there are certainly some creative people... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Famed drag comedian (and one-time NYC mayoral candidate) Murray Hill tweets:
The best show in town... X-country skiing at Frost Valley in Catskills, and the pancakes at Sweet Sue's in Phoencia.
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 10:25 pm
Unless things change dramatically for Emilio Maya, a restaurant owner, husband and father in Saugerties, he'll be on a plane to Argentina in a few weeks. A Daily Freeman story reports that on November 17, immigration agents seized him on his way to work... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 9:48 pm
Circa 1855, that is. Nineteenth-century Bovina had double the town's current population--and enough local purchasing power to support several shoe stores, a woolen factory, and no less than four wagonmaking blacksmiths, town historian Ray LaFever writes.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 8:09 pm
Adrian Greiner,star of HBO's "Entourage" and drummer for the Honey Brothers, has been hanging out in Ulster County lately, the Times Herald-Record observes. The manager of Sami's gets in touch with his inner fanboy:
"He actually gave me a hug goodbye,"... Read more