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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 5:19 pm
The Bishopp Family Farm's blog, "The Grass Whisperer," has another sweet tribute to late Schoharie beef farmer David Huse, who died last month in a tractor accident:
A large, skylight provided a mottled scene over my friend’s casket, as I sat in the pew... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 7:59 pm
David Radovanovic, who writes a blog about Saugerties, experienced discrimination against canines firsthand today when he walked his dog Stevie through the Sawyer Motors Car Show. Perturbed, Radovanovic eventually found justice in the form of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 12:06 pm
A few years shy of a century ago, Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Jewish families from Fleischmanns and Margaretville. Its 1918 incorporation date makes the historic synagogue, located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, one of the oldest in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 11:47 am
Roxbury's Stone Tavern Farm, which boasts "the darkest skies within 300 miles of New York City," hosted the Amateur Observers' Society of New York's annual Starfest this weekend. In attendance: The Westport Astronomical Society's 25" Obsession telescope,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 2:59 pm
The 24-year-old Hurley man went missing on July 1, and his family's very worried.
Evan Stauble, 24, vanished shortly after his family moved him to Ulster County from New Jersey, where he had been living in a mental health facility. His family said Stauble... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Politicoblogger Jeremy Blaber repeats a rumor that James Sottile has had enough of being unpopular, and isn't going to run for reelection.
With Mayor Sottile being forced out of the race, the field of Democrats will widen. James Noble, Bill Reynolds, Mike... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 11:55 am
On Wednesday, the Woodstock Playhouse Board President, Joan Spitz Roberts, put out a plea on the Playhouse's Facebook page in which she begged for help staving off a looming foreclosure:
In February 2010 one of our Mortgagors felt it necessary to begin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 - 11:09 am
The New York Times accompanies a gaggle of fathers and daughters up the cliffs, and then afterwards to New Paltz, all the while congratulating itself on its touristic originality:
This was a departure from an otherwise typical tourist itinerary in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Yes, it's already the weekend -- no doubt you're still digesting those candied apples and that funnel cake from the Fourth. But there's no rest for the hungover or the over-carnivaled: There's some awesome stuff to do this weekend. Here's what we're... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 6:15 pm
Looks like the organizers of Liberty's Movies in the Park outdoor film series didn't get the right permits -- and rather than get sued by movie-licensing companies, they're canceling the rest of the series until further notice. From a press release on the... Read more
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