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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Videographer and former Phoenicia Times columnist Dakota Lane is celebrating the holidays by going from business to business in Shokan, Olive, Phoenicia and Woodstock asking people to divulge their wish lists for the season. The result is a sweet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 - 9:09 am
Jennifer Kabat, who just started a new blog about Plattekill Mountain and winter life in the Catskills, finds a scrap of a Harlequin romance novel embedded in the snow on the Upper Face and traces the clue back to its source:
So how does a book get... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 3:28 pm
As we reported earlier today, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will be sending some new regulations for outdoor wood boilers (OWBs) to the state's Environmental Board for a vote on Wednesday.
This afternoon, the DEC published a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
A meeting of the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency's board got heated last week when a local dairy farmer chastised the IDA for not doing more to help struggling farmers. The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
[Sullivan County Farm Network] co-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 9:14 am
A grass-roots community teaching and learning cooperative is having its second meeting ever tonight in Andes, and organizer Laurie "Story Laurie" McIntosh is talking it up in the local newspapers. In an article on Saturday in the Daily Star, McIntosh told... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 8:38 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context on this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 7:35 pm
In the New York Daily News today: A glowing profile of Kingston's emerging high-tech microbusiness community, complete with photos of swank lofts, breathless real estate price quotes, and paeans to the city's thriving art scene. (Oh yes. They even used... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 - 11:07 am
Steve Svidro, a 49-year-old who lived downstairs from his mother in Athens, shot himself in the head after surrounding attempting to torch their house on Thursday morning. The spectacular crime is being reported by the Daily Freeman, the Daily Mail, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Schoharie-county-based writer and radical homemaker Shannon Hayes, about whom we've written before, took her advice about living simply and hanging launcry to Hudson in November, where WGXC made a recording of her remarks:
Shannon Hayes led a “Radical... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 11:15 am
On Tuesday, the New York Observer ran a beautiful portrait of Lee Hoiby, an 84-year-old composer who is experiencing an unexpected renaissance. The reporter interviewed Hoiby in his home in an undisclosed location in the Catskills, and came away with an... Read more
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