People
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 27, 2010 - 12:35 pm
Michael White, who was in 10th grade at Catskill High School, was killed last night in a Palenville accident involving an all-terrain vehicle, according to the Daily Mail and WNYT. Jennifer O’Brien, a 17-year-old, survived but is critically injured.
WNYT... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 26, 2010 - 1:04 pm
A genealogy junkie named Alanna just made a shocking discovery in her family tree:
Joseph Wood in a suspected fit of suspected rum induced jealousy killed his wife with a hatchet ... My GrGrGr Grandfather murdered his wife….my GrGrGr Grandmother. I... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 26, 2010 - 12:27 pm
Clark Richters of the Kingston News Blog reports that Kingston Area Public Access is facing a shutdown over three months' unpaid rent at their studio, in the Seven21 Media Center.
Just a few months ago, Roll Magazine wrote of a glowing future for the up-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 25, 2010 - 10:25 am
David Knudsen, who chronicles the Sullivan County real estate market on his blog, has a provocative proposal for Sullivan County. Instead of striving to fulfill the second home dreams of the "arugula and goat cheese set," he writes, Sulllivan County... Read more
By wateradmin on Saturday, Jul. 24, 2010 - 10:03 pm
Left to right: Erica Mahlkuch, Luc Moeys and Nina Paturel.
Luc and Nina are at it again. Woodstock residents Luc Moeys and Nina Paturel, that is. With their newest venture, Yum Yum Noodle Bar, the duo behind Cafe With Love and Oriole9 are now joining... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 4:16 pm
All children living in a U.S. school district, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to a free public education. So why are New York State school districts requiring parents to show visas, green cards or Social Security numbers to register... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 3:57 pm
On Tuesday, Linda Borghi's feud with her Shawangunk neighbors over her Walker Valley biodynamic farm intensified when Ulster County legislators declined to grant her an agricultural exemption to the local zoning laws.
Pointing out that two other farms... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 3:32 pm
...and it's quashed pretty fast. But it generated this lovely little haiku of a newspaper story:
Two out-of-state women were cited for disorderly conduct mid-day Thursday after they staged a protest about President Barack Obama on post office property... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the state's intermediate appeals court handed a victory to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in a fight with a Windham landowner over watershed development regulations.
According to the decision,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Delaware County: Tune into ABC at 8pm tomorrow to see if Stone and Thistle Farm's Denise Warren can handle life in the shoes of a TV-obsessed, diva-licious suburbanite from Oklahoma. The Daily Star reports:
Denise Warren said when she got to her temporary... Read more
Pages
