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.

Belleayre declares: YES WE STILL HAVE SNOW!

High-speed crashes in Kerhonkson and Montgomery killed three and injured two last night. The Times Herald-Record has the details.

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, 47, who was previously his district office representative and administrative aide, represented members of the Forth Worth-based American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL). AAPL members came to New York to work for energy companies acquiring gas leases from property owners.

Hinchey and Lee were married in 2006. DC Bureau reports that Lee worked for the AAPL until at least 2008.

There's a great anecdote in the story about a meeting between Lee, AAPL representatives, officials for the New York Farm Bureau, and Ashur Terwilliger, head of the Chemung County Natural Gas Coalition and president of the Chemung County Farm Bureau.

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 activists on the hush. If we want to protest the noise ordinance, do we need to get a permit from the Village Board, to protest the Village Board?

More on the noise ordinance from the Times Herald-Record, the Examiner and -- what else? -- Facebook, where an opposition group has posted the actual text of the ordinance.