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All Tomorrow's Parties 2010: Jim Jarmusch to curate

ATP announces a partial lineup for this year's Labor Day Weekend musicfest at Kutsher's. This will be the third year in the Borscht Belt for the indie-rock fest.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd: IGGY & THE STOOGES performing Raw Power, SLEEP performing Holy Mountain, MUDHONEY performing Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles, THE SCIENTISTS performing Blood Red River (first ever U.S. Show) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th ATP 10th Birthday: SONIC YOUTH, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, THE BREEDERS, F**K BUTTONS, THE BOOKS, PAPA M, APSE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th curated by Jim Jarmusch: THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, RAEKWON, GIRLS, F*CKED UP, WOODEN SHJIPS, THE BLACK ANGELS, VIVIAN GIRLS + more to be confirmed!

From the Village Voice: An oral history of ATP.

New York Times review of ATP NY 2009:

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Gotta love the Catskills

Where else does a "Grrls On The Town" day involve raw milk and Methodist Cabin Fever?

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The ravenous maw of the General Fund

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle takes aim at Albany's spending habits today.

At issue: Taxes and fees originally intended for things like roads, education and emergency services tend to disappear into the black hole of the state's general fund.

You know you live in New York if ...
... your gasoline taxes don't necessarily go toward maintaining roads and bridges.

... revenue from tuition increases doesn't necessarily help state university campuses enhance education.

... a surcharge on your cell phone bill doesn't necessarily help first responders.

... the lottery pays out more in prizes than it gives to education.

Image: The Sarlacc from Return of the Jedi.

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Meanwhile, in another watershed...

New York City doesn't have the only unfiltered water supply in the state. The city of Syracuse also drinks unfiltered water from Lake Skaneateles, making it one of just a handful of cities in the U.S. that are allowed by the EPA to drink unfiltered surface water.

Naturally, the hydrofracking debate is pretty fierce in Syracuse, though the issue isn't getting as much press as gas drilling in the NYC watershed.

Skaneateles water-drinker Laura Brazak, who attended a recent public forum in Onondaga County, was dismayed that 99% of her fellow Syracusans didn't show up.

Everybody can be on the side of water, right? And as one lady stated: "You can't drink money."

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Newspaper vanishes in the night

The Greenville Press seems to have evaporated, along with its publisher Linda Fenoff.

All Greenville and New Baltimore residents are hereby invited to send us news items and tips on upcoming events they'd like to see covered. Send them by email ([email protected]) or snail mail (53 Delaware Ave., Delhi, NY), and please include your name and address.

That goes for the rest of Greene, Delaware, Ulster, Sullivan and Schoharie Counties, too. But we'll make a special effort to reach towns without a newspaper.

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The Mayas speak out: ICE used us

The AP has an incredible story about Saugerties business owners Emilio and Analia Maya, Argentine natives who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and who now face deportation.

According to the story, the brother and sister have been working undercover for the ICE for years, in the hopes of gaining a coveted "S visa" they say they were promised by the agency.

Five years later, the Mayas say they have only questions and a burning sense of betrayal. They insist they held up their end of the bargain, risking their lives in hours of undercover work, wearing wires and using fake names. But for reasons they do not understand, ICE and the agents who were their handlers abruptly turned against them -- and they now face imminent deportation.

Earlier: Cafe Tango owner faces deportation.

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New York City's saltshed

Friends of the Pleistocene tells a fascinating detective story about where New York City's road salt comes from--not from vast salt mines in upstate New York, but from much farther away.

This week New York City will become, as most cities will at some point this winter, coated with a temporary geologic layer. It isn’t a “new” layer, but an ancient one. Its presence results in an odd rearrangement of geologic time. New York City, a combination of Anthropocene and Pleistocene shaped surfaces (dating from the present to 2.5 million years ago), is being encased this week by a thin stratum made, literally, of the stuff of 8-10 million years ago.

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Gas is hot in Chenango County

The Evening Sun reports that a Chenango County board of supervisors meeting this week got unusually feisty on the topic of natural-gas hydrofracking.

Supervisor Ross Iannello kicked off the discussion about local exploration and drilling by asking for immediate board support in leasing county-owned land at Preston Manor. The land is being integrated into a Norse Energy, Inc. spacing unit at an adjacent well site. Iannello and other supervisors who make up the county’s Natural Gas Committee have been pushing the board to take advantage of an opportunity to profit.

Only a short window of time remains to enter into a contract. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a compulsory integration hearing on the order in early March.

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Cairo residents: Beware cheerleaders bearing potpourri.

Authorities have arrested a female suspect in connection with the fraudulent sale of flowers and potpourri throughout the Town of Cairo by two women posing as Cairo-Durham high school cheerleaders.

Floylene Smith, 18, of 5281 Route 32 in Catskill was charged Tuesday with second-degree scheme to defraud. She was issued a ticket returnable to Town of Cairo Court with an appearance date of Feb. 16.

Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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