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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:36 am
The Daily Mail reports:
CATSKILL — A former Coxsackie police sergeant and substance abuse educator was charged with drunk driving for the second time in the last decade.
Albany police officer Brian Lutz, who was once a Drug Abuse Resistance Education... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:38 pm
The future of community FM radio is currently being plotted in the back rooms of the US Senate, in the form of a bill that could dramatically increase the number of licenses available to community radio stations.
The bill has broad support from both the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Photographer Rusty Tagliareni is coming out with a book, he writes on LiveJournal, that will include some photographs of abandoned Catskills resorts. Yesterday, he posted a some images of one of the resorts, along with some tantalizing commentary:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
The New York State Police are reporting that two Hancock men, 45-year-old John T. Gurnick and 31-year-old James P. Santicola, were arrested last Thursday in Hancock for allegedly posessing crack cocaine, an illegal handgun, marijuana, marijuana... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:22 pm
Who could have guessed, when the little Delaware County town of Sidney was being painted as a hotbed of bigotry on Comedy Central and MSNBC a couple of months ago, that the town would end up being nationally singled out as an object lesson on how to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:46 pm
A press release issued today by the Delaware Sheriff's Department reports that the county responded to two car accidents on Friday. The release:
December 10, 2010
Sheriff's Deputies investigated a 2 car property damage accident on State 10 in the hamlet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:19 pm
The Poughkeepsie Journal, the Times Herald-Record, and the Daily Freeman have the distressing news that rock/folk legend Levon Helm missed his own gig on Saturday night because he was hospitalized with a cold.
The Journal interviewed Helm's manager,... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 10:34 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context about this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 - 3:58 pm
There is a truly excellent feature story in the Associated Press about Sidney today.
It's a compassionate, lengthy article by award-winning feature writer Helen O'Neill, who specializes in nuanced, well-reported portraits of towns and people struggling... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 9:28 pm
Lisa Barrows, the Delaware County DWI Coordinator, in front of her office door in Delhi. Photo by Julia Reischel.
This story has been updated with new information as of 12:30pm, 12/10/10. Scroll to the bottom to read the update.
Unlikely as it sounds,... Read more



