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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 4:24 pm
Roxbury's only medical clinic will close in November, a spokeswoman for the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley confirmed today.
“It will be closing, yes, in November,” said Sylvia Murphy, the Health Alliance's director of marketing told the Watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 2:25 pm
Sandy Foster, of New York Times and DIY-gingerbread-cottage fame, took a bunch of lovely photos of asters by her cottage in Delhi this week.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Apex Bridge over the Cannonsville Reservoir on September 27. Photo by Jack McShane.
Paddlers and canoe enthusiasts rejoiced last year when the New York City Department of Environmental Projection announced that it would be opening up the Cannonsville... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 4:24 pm
So how did the community-radio festival and training-fest in Hudson go last weekend? WGXC and the Prometheus Project have a slew of videos recording the "community radio barnraising" in action, so you can see for yourself what it was like. Here's a "video... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 6:40 am
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann anointed Sidney town supervisor Bob McCarthy the day's "Worst Person In The World," for leading a charge to dig up a local Sufi community's tiny cemetery over a nebulous permitting issue.
No TV personality can ever... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:04 am
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 8:46 am
It must be election season, because the earmarks are pouring in to the Catskills and the Hudson Valley Region.
Yesterday, US Representative Maurice Hinchey announced that he got $205,000 from House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 1:51 pm
Last Thursday, 51-year-old Albert Fleming, from Brooklyn, was arrested for stabbing an unnamed 23-year-old at Phoenix House, a drug treatment center in South Kortright. From the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Thursday evening Delaware County Sheriff... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Members of a Sufi community, Osmanlı Nakş-ı'bendi Hakkani Dergah, in Sidney Center, in Delaware County. Photo by Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani, via Flickr.
In a blockbuster of a story in the Huffingston Post today, reporter Andrew Reinbach exposes what looks... Read more



