Unless things change dramatically for Emilio Maya, a restaurant owner, husband and father in Saugerties, he'll be on a plane to Argentina in a few weeks. A Daily Freeman story reports that on November 17, immigration agents seized him on his way to work and shipped him to a jail in Pennsylvania.

 

From that jail, Maya said, he was brought to Manhattan to be deported. “The Argentine Embassy called my wife and said, ‘Bring a suitcase, he’s being deported,’” Maya said.

Adrian Greiner,star of HBO's "Entourage" and drummer for the Honey Brothers, has been hanging out in Ulster County lately, the Times Herald-Record observes. The manager of Sami's gets in touch with his inner fanboy:

"He actually gave me a hug goodbye," Rodriguez said. "He was real cool. Real cool."

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Life's tough when your eggs sell for $250 a pound. The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus), whose prehistoric shape you might recognize from road signs around the Hudson watershed, is now under consideration for the federal endangered species list. From a story in the Charleston Sun News: