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Apr. 17, 2010
Nearly 50 years (and four grandchildren) after the fact, a Woodstock local reflects on her 1962 illegal abortion:
They brought me to another doctor to verify that I had just had an abortion. Then they put me in a jail cell in the Bronx with a box of... Read more
Apr. 16, 2010
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
Apr. 16, 2010
Looks like staff shortages at the DEC are delaying the completion of a review of the agency's plans for Marcellus shale gas drilling until at least late summer right in the middle of campaign season. From the Ithaca Journal:
"As with every agency, we are... Read more
Apr. 15, 2010
We passed this tattoo parlor's web 2.0 billboard on Rte. 28 outside of Kingston and had to snap a photo. Pat's Tats is definitely online and on Twitter, but so far, it's only got three tweets! Pat, we want more!
Apr. 15, 2010
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,... Read more
Apr. 15, 2010
Dramatic money worries are in the air today. In the Daily Freeman, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein has a plan to save Ulster County $8.6 million with a hodgpodge of measures, including shutting down some local healthcare offices:
Among Hein’s cost-... Read more
Apr. 14, 2010
The thing is, it doesn't really seem to need it, according to the village clerk (via the Daily Freeman):
“There is an intercom right outside the front door of our office that they can press and we will come down, or the sign on the door says for them... Read more
Apr. 14, 2010
From the Woodstock Film Fest:
HIGHER GROUND, which will mark the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Down to the Bone) is looking to hire local Hudson Valley crew members for May-June film production. Please note that this is a low budget... Read more
Apr. 14, 2010
The Daily Star reports:
A 23-year-old Oneonta woman was arrested on misdemeanor charges Monday for allegedly allowing her toddler to play with a box that contained a hypodermic needle ... The girl had been pricked in her left index finger when she... Read more
Apr. 14, 2010
The aging Mansion House in White Lake has a date with destiny, according to developer Pawel Efraimov, who is planning to tear it down as soon as he gets the final go-ahead from the Bethel's Planning Board.
The Times Herald-Record reports that Town... Read more
Apr. 14, 2010
Good citizens of New Paltz, take note: they've tried hanging dead vultures around to scare the live ones away in Florida, too, and the results were "mixed." From the Miami Herald:
The first few days they had it up there, oooh, it was eerie around here... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
Looks like GOP hopeful Steve Levy wants to make it a campaign issue:
“The folks up here in this region I see like the potential of economic development and they are going to monitor this because this is their drinking water and lake systems. We've got to... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
The Daily Freeman reports that Kingston mayor James Sottile and legislator David Donaldson are pushing for Ulster County to take over all Safety Net payments. (Ulster County is the only county in New York State that bills individual municipalities for... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
From the Times Herald-Record:
Kingston detectives on Monday arrested Curtis Williams, 36, outside his home at E. 168th Street in the Bronx. Williams was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.
Police had... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
Another fracking movie, this one called "Gas Odyssey," makes its worldwide debut this week in Binghamton. (See our calendar listing for details.)
From the trailer, which is sadly impossible to embed, it looks like the film explores why the people of... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
An Oneonta filmmaker's 10-year dream of putting her father's mining tales into a movie will be realized next month, when "Switchback" starts filming in Essex County. From the Daily Star:
Co-producers Joel Plue and Lori Kelly-Bailey, his mother, have been... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
Enforcing the newly-passed Leandra's law, which requires all convicted drunk drivers to install ignition locks on their vehicles, may be too pricey for Greene County to handle, county lawmakers said at a meeting last night. The Daily Freeman reports:... Read more
Apr. 13, 2010
In Monticello, the Times Herald-Record reports on the not-too-crafty ruse: sell someone the TV you are renting from Rent-a-Center, and then report it as stolen.