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May. 12, 2010
Catskill ex-cop Nathan Van Fleet's scheduled May 10 trial, on charges of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old girl, has been postponed, the Daily Mail reports. The reason? Van Fleet couldn't get to the hearing because he's in jail on unrelated weapons... Read more
May. 12, 2010
Yesterday, with much fanfare, the late Board of Water Supply police officer John J. Quinlan was added to the State of New York Police Officers Memorial in Albany (and also the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.) He is the "... Read more
May. 12, 2010
Trout in the Classroom from VeccVideography on Vimeo.
Local video maven Jessica Vecchione just filmed the Trout in the Classroom program in action at the Arkville Community Living Skills Center, which offers programs for people with disabilities under... Read more
May. 12, 2010
Policy watchdog Environmental Advocates of New York has flunked state senators John Bonacic and Bill Larkin on environmental issues, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports. It's because they both voted to kill a bill that would've allowed people... Read more
May. 12, 2010
Twenty-three Ulster County centenarians were feted by the Ulster County Office of Aging last Friday. Seems like a lot of venerable aged folks for one county, doesn't it? Apparently, whiskey has something to do with it, according to YNN Hudson Valley:
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May. 11, 2010
It has to take a particular kind of crazy to get yourself chased by the police, have your truck flip over, and then land on your wheels and keep going. And on Rte. 10 in the town of Summit, which, as its name implies, is on the top of a mountain. Elijah... Read more
May. 11, 2010
Upstate communities that rely on tourist dollars are bemoaning the loss of an I Love New York program that gives matching funds to counties, the AP reports.
“This is our season, this our time, this is when we’re luring those travelers and those... Read more
May. 11, 2010
The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together. ... Read more
May. 11, 2010
Despite last weekend's freakish weather, the good people of Fleischmanns still celebrated Cinco de Mayo (on Saturday, May 8) with music and lots of food. Jessica Vecchione was on hand with her video camera to capture the scene:
Cinco De Mayo Celebration... Read more
May. 10, 2010
Empire State Future's Peter B. Fleischer lays out the case against malignant sprawl in yesterday's Albany Times-Union.
Today's upstate sprawl extends considerably farther away from town and city centers; consists of larger homes built on larger lots (... Read more
May. 10, 2010
The Ulster County distillery gets a nod in a recent Food and Wine roundup of best new American whiskies:
According to Tuthilltown Spirits, New York had upward of 1,000 farm stills before the 1919 ratification of the Volstead act made them all illegal.... Read more
May. 10, 2010
If you were one of those foohardy souls who got seduced by the beautiful weather into planting a bunch of vegetables, you'd best get out there with your row covers:
ANOTHER COLD SPRING NIGHT IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION. CALM WINDS AND COLD AIR WILL... Read more
May. 10, 2010
In the Daily Mail today: Greene County Council on the Arts pleads the state not to decimate its arts budget.
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, came before the county Legislature Wednesday with a plea of support.
“... Read more
May. 10, 2010
The Daily Star reports:
The shootings occurred at about 10 p.m. Sunday, police said. Daisy Schultz, 65, of Walton, and Richard Utter, 74, of Norwich, died as a result, police said.
Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said he was called... Read more
May. 10, 2010
Daily Star columnist Rick Brockway encounters a piece of history on a Catskills hike:
The aluminum fuselage and tattered wings are all that remained of the plane. If John Grace had been flying just a few feet higher, he would have missed the wooded peak... Read more
May. 8, 2010
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks,... Read more
May. 8, 2010
Bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night. At least that's what they say in the thyu-tuh -- and it seems to have been true for the Margaretville Central School's performance of Carousel for their classmates this week, according to beleaguered... Read more
May. 8, 2010
The Iroquois Gas Transmission System's planned natural gas pipeline through the Hudson Valley will go through Ulster County, the Freeman reports.
The natural gas pipeline — which needs approval from, among others, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... Read more
May. 7, 2010
While hunting deer in a suit made with activated charcoal to mask his scent, Frank Bibbo, who lives on Denver Vega Road in Roxbury, realized that the stuff had more marketable applications, according to the Examiner:
While wearing the activated charcoal... Read more
May. 6, 2010
From the New York Times this afternoon:
Joseph L. Bruno, the former Republican Senate majority leader who reigned for more than a decade as one of the most powerful politicians in New York State, was sentenced to two years on Thursday for concealing... Read more