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:

Frank said the state should delay implementation until those questions are answered and until the issue of funding is resolved. He said to require all convicted drunken drivers to have an ignition lock device is another form of an unfunded mandate for the counties.

Ah, those unfunded mandates. They getcha every time.

Josh Fox's documentary about the hazards of natural gas drilling is gearing up for a screening tour this summer, and looking for an intern to help.

Kingston Neighborhood Watch is hoping that #10 Linderman Avenue, currently for sale at the bargain-basement price of $59,000, won't be bought by another absentee landlord.

#10 Linderman is taking a break from being am illegally four family apartment that terrorized the neighbors for many years. Currently it is condemned after being a drug house and having someone OD in it.

An interested buyer, identified only as "Mr. Singh," is apparently interested in getting a variance from City Hall to rent it out legally as four one-bedroom apartments. The Neighborhood Watch poster doesn't think much of that idea--and wishes the rest of the world saw Kingston like she does:

American shad, once plentiful in the Hudson and the smaller rivers they return to each year to spawn, have suffered tremendous declines in recent years--so much so that the NY DEC declared them off-limits in the Hudson this year.

Nevertheless, the guides at Cross Current Fly Fishing think this is going to be a good year for shad on the Delaware.

Reports of 20+ fish days are common throughout the river up to the Delaware Water Gap. This past week the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission electrofished a stretch of river near Raubsville, PA and averaged 39 fish per hour, a very high number according to fisheries biologists.

Electrofishing, for the uninitiated, is the use of an electric current to knock fish senseless so they can be counted. (Or scooped into a bucket and eaten for dinner, if you're unsportsmanlike.)

Clearly Woodstock ain't what it used to be:

Given that the usual fare in Woodstock is either jam bands, singer-songwriters, or retro folkies, the Hold Steady’s aggressively contemporary take on bar band blues and seventies rock arrangements was not to be missed by anyone who still cares for a bit of energy in their live fare, though it was equally endemic of the Woodstock demographic that the gig was a long way from sold out, and this from a band that’s just announced a headlining show at New York’s Beacon Theater.

Touche. Still, by Fletcher's account, Thursday's show at the Bearsville Theater had a zealous, if small, audience.