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Schreibman and Gibson debate tonight

By Lissa Harris
10/18/12 - 5:02 pm

Tonight, the candidates for New York's 19th Congressional District, Julian Schreibman (Democrat) and Chris Gibson (Republican incumbent), will hold their second debate at 8pm at WMHT-TV in Troy. The station will be broadcasting the debate live on television, as will WSKG-TV in Binghamton.

The first debate between Gibson and Schreibman, held last week at the M. Clifford Miller Middle School in Kingston, was videotaped and livestreamed by the Freeman. (Click the link for a video replay of the debate, as well as the Freeman's news account.)

A third debate will be held at 7pm on Wednesday, October 24 at SUNY Oneonta. Read more

Craft cider rises from the ashes

By Lissa Harris
10/18/12 - 2:54 pm

Above: Tuthilltown's microdistilled gin and vodka made with New York State apples, on display at a recent cider tasting for the media at the Stockade Tavern in Kingston. Photo by Lissa Harris.

The spirit of Johnny Appleseed is alive and well in New York's orchards. (And if you think Johnny Appleseed was all about pie and juice, think again.)

The hard cider industry in the United States has been a shadow of its former self since Prohibition, when apple orchards were razed to put a stop to cidermaking. But with the recent rise of interest in microbreweries and small-batch distilling, hard cider is once again ascendent. And in New York State, where legal reform has helped the wine and spirits industry undergo a dramatic renaissance in recent years, advocates are hoping to put hard cider on the map once more. Read more

Chronic wasting disease found in Pennsylvania deer

By Lissa Harris
10/17/12 - 12:44 pm

New York and Pennsylvania state environmental agencies are imposing emergency rules on hunters, after a captive deer in New Oxford, Pennsylvania was found to be infected with chronic wasting disease.

Today, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) declared that any deer or elk shot in Pennsylvania must be butchered, and all body parts that could carry the disease must be removed, before it is brought into New York State.

In Pennsylvania, hunters in a newly-designated, 700-square-foot management area around where the infected deer was found must take any deer they kill to a check station to be examined. According to the Hanover Evening Sun, the state Game Commission is currently working on new regulations and a map of the management area.

Below: A press release issued today by the New York State DEC. Read more

Racers brave 30 hours of cold, wet adventure in national championship

By Julia Reischel
10/13/12 - 4:46 pm

Canoes line up at the Adventure Race National Championship on the Pepacton Reservoir yesterday morning. Photo by Carol O'Beirne.

For the past two days, the Catskills have played host to a grueling 30-hour trial of physical strength and endurance: the 2012 USARA Adventure Race National Championship.

Adventure racing is a team sport that involves an obstacle-course-like route of paddling, hiking, cycling, navigating by compass, and rappeling down rock faces. The idea is that just by finishing the race in one piece, you win. (There are prizes for the fastest racers as well. But the real prize is survival.)

Every year, the US Adventure Racing Association picks a new location to host its national championship race. This year, the 100-mile course was in the Catskills, beginning with a canoe-paddle on the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware County yesterday and ending at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, Ulster County, this afternoon. Read more

Register to vote by Friday, October 12

By Lissa Harris
10/10/12 - 2:17 pm

Above: Detail of photo by Flickr user Kevin Dooley. Published under Creative Commons license.

Are you registered to vote in New York State? If not, you have until Friday, October 12 to make sure you're registered to vote in the general election on November 6.

Voters can register in person at their county board of elections, at a Department of Motor Vehicles office, or a state agency-based voter registration center (click here for a list of agencies that accept voter registrations).

Or, if you like, you can mail your voter registration form (embedded below) to your county board of elections: Just make sure it's postmarked by October 12. Forms must be received by October 17 in order to be valid. Read more

Rosendale man suspected in string of Ulster County burglaries

By Lissa Harris
10/10/12 - 11:02 am

DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man from the Rosendale hamlet of Tillson, 52-year-old William F. Ryan, on multiple burglary charges, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.

Ryan faces charges of third-degree burglary, third-degree criminal mischief, and third-degree grand larceny for a burglary at the PX Express on Route 209 in Rochester, committed in June. He has also been linked to a 2010 burglary at a home in the town of Wawarsing, and faces second-degree burglary and petit larceny charges in that incident.

There may be more charges in store for Ryan, the Times Herald-Record reports:

[Detective Jason] Bruck said Ryan is a suspect in numerous other burglaries and larcenies and an investigation is ongoing.

Ryan was arraigned in the Town of Rosendale and remanded to the Ulster County Jail in lieu of $20,000 cash bail or $40,000 bond, to appear in Rochester and Wawarsing courts at a later date.