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By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 9, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Both the Senate and Assembly have vowed to restore funding to New York's state parks, bucking an effort by Gov. Paterson to help balance the budget by closing dozens of parks.
But New York History says the parks will have to close anyway, unless the state... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 7:54 pm
According to witnesses, the state's first same-sex Peep wedding was held in Margaretville over the weekend.
Although the announcement does not give a full account of the reception, we suspect the happiness of the marshmallowy couple was short-lived.
Photo... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 4:29 pm
The Woodstock Times reports:
According to Woodstock Arts Board President Joan Roberts, who has been the public face for the struggling cultural venue in the town's gateway district - established to help protect the site of the town's key theater since... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 2:52 pm
A recent addition to the Historical Marker Database: The plaque honoring the New Paltz Patentees, French Hugenots who settled the banks of the Walkill in 1677.
The HMDB is building an "illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 2:32 pm
Tony Fletcher couldn't resist the chance to hit the slopes yesterday:
The temptation to ski Hunter in 81F/27C sunshine in early April, still with plenty snow on the mountain, and to wear shorts and t-shirt in the process, was too good to turn down.... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 2:22 pm
If the big-talking Oklahoma investor still wants to buy the Friar Tuck Inn, he can call the Ulster Savings Bank. The property was foreclosed on after the hotel lost its case for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court yesterday.
The Daily Freeman... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 2:01 pm
High-speed crashes in Kerhonkson and Montgomery killed three and injured two last night. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:54 pm
Daily Freeman: Police seeking Midtown gunman in gang-related shooting.
The victim was shot in the forearm, and is recovering. Now all we need is one more local arm-shooting and we'll have a trend.
Here's hoping the shooter's friends aren't reading the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:31 pm
DC Bureau, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, reports that Congressman Maurice Hinchey is denying knowledge of his wife's recent work on behalf of a Texas landmen's organization.
For at least two years of their marriage, Hinchey’s wife, Allison Lee,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 11:55 pm
Pure Catskills, the local-food-and-farms program run by the Watershed Agricultural Council, is running a photo contest. Instructions from their blog:
Each photo entered will:
• Feature a local farm and/or food theme
• Feature a location or a business in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:50 pm
Best story yet in the relentless barrage of news coming out of Cooperstown: NYT reporter/heir A.G. Sulzberger breaks a date to cover the story (haven't we all?), orders a Diet Coke (but he's so slim already!), and worries about costing his father's multi-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:24 pm
Nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica, whose reporter Abraham Lustgarten has been writing exclusively about the risks of horizontal natural gas drilling since 2008, has a new gas story today. At hand: the EPA's upcoming two-year study of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:34 pm
Maria at the New Paltz Gadfly takes aim at a proposed noise ordinance in her fair city:
The new proposal requires a permit from the Village Board to attract public attention using any noise (2-5 F, 2-9 A, B). This one is pretty convenient at keeping... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:07 pm
Ah, the miracle of modern digital photography. This may look like an Instamatic print from a battered box marked "Spring 1967," but this nostalgia-hued snapshot of the ice on North-South Lake was taken last week.
Photo by Flickr user Catskills Grrl. All... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:24 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that when a bear tried to crawl into a Parksville house on Sunday, the woman inside made three calls: to the state police, to the Department of Environmental Conservation, and to her grandfather. Unluckily for the bear,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:56 am
Bird-watching fanatic Corey Finger, a Saugerties ex-pat who now lives in New York City, spent his Easter morning tromping around the swamp. He got some great bird photos and a shot of a tree-dwelling porcupine:
I went for a drive to the Great Vly, a large... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:13 pm
It probably isn't news to locals that in Ulster County, the city of Kingston pays for the lion's share of Safety Net, a statewide welfare program. In most of the state, the buck stops with the county. Not so in Ulster County, which bills towns for half... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 7:53 pm
The Pollyanna of the Week award goes to the Daily Star and its unnamed teenage sources, for their weirdly chipper Day 5 take on the Cooperstown shooting: "Most students unfazed by Cooperstown shooting."
But for most students, Monday was a normal day,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 7:09 pm
Monticello, the Sullivan County village whose mayhem and machinations lately have been worthy of prime-time on HBO, continues to be wracked with political intrigue. The latest, in the Times Herald-Record: Twice-ousted village manager John Barbarite, a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 5:14 pm
It turns out that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade on behalf of New York City drinking water only targeted about 10 percent of the drugs that humans flush down the toilet. The other 90 percent, according to an article in Time Magazine this... Read more
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