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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 9:49 am
UPDATE 10:24pm: Local papers reported this afternoon that two Kingston 16-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the shooting, Eban Woullard and Brandon Jones. Here's the Times-Herald Record story; here's the Freeman's.
UPDATED 9:54am: A man was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:45 pm
A tractor-trailer killed 83-year-old Vera Un and 86-year-old George Un of Shandaken as they stopped on Rte. 28 to make a left turn in Boiceville this afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 59-year-old William... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 5:35 pm
For the second time in a month, there's been a fatal car accident on Rte. 28 near De Silva Rd. in Boiceville, in the town of Olive.
This afternoon, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record, one person was killed on that stretch of road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 9:12 am
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman report that 19-year-old Jordan Soderback was killed in a car crash in Olive yesterday, in which the driver has been charged with DUI. From the THR:
Erica Miller, 31, was driving under the influence of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:21 am
As if you hadn't heard enough from the DEC this week, the Times Union ran an interview today with Wallace "Wally" John, the special assistant for natural resources to Pete Grannis and a West Shokan resident. No mention of, oh, gas drilling in the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 10:59 pm
Welcome to the hall of mirrors that is the Internet. The Daily Freeman recently wrote a story about Martha Frankel's new book, Brazilian Sexy. Frankel posted the Freeman clip on Facebook, along with a quip about being naked in her hometown paper. Some... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 12:04 pm
West Shokan fine art photographer E. G. Cleveland originally trained himself in black-and-white photography. But the revolution has been pixelated, and so now he's transitioned to full-color digital photos, a few of which he just uploaded this morning. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 8:31 pm
The Ashokan Center has been forced to scale back somewhat on its ambitious plans for its new arts and environmental education campus in Olivebridge, the Woodstock Times reports. But founders Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are making the best of it:
Alas, Ungar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 1, 2010 - 9:52 pm
Sally Moon in Olive got some great photos yesterday of water spilling over the Ashokan dam.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 3:50 pm
It's become an annual tradition for high school students from New York City and its upstate watershed communities to get together to talk about the science and policy of the NYC watershed. Last week, the Ashokan Center hosted 30 students from John Bowne... Read more
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