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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:59 pm
Accusations of racism are flying in Cobleskill this week, after Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell sent out a late-night, town-wide email blasting Mayor Mark Nadeau and Supervisor Tom Murray for using the N-word. Yes, that N-word.
From the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:02 pm
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that Jeffrey W. Kayes, the driver of a dump truck that sparked an enormous fire on Rte. 9W in the town of Esopus on Tuesday, is facing criminal charges. The Record reports that those charges are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 3:11 pm
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Spring Lake Farm's Ulla Kjarval reflects on American meat-eating, her father's latest cohort of piglets, and the middle ground farms like her family's occupy between animal rights activism and so-called Big Ag.
The cuteness of the piglets are giving me... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 11:34 am
And despite a massive manhunt, he's still at large. From the Daily Freeman:
The Sheriff’s Office said in a prepared statement late Wednesday that it believes the robber set the fire to draw police away from the center of town so that he could pull off the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in 360-degree panoramic images of abandoned places, recently turned his lens on the Grossinger's hotel near Liberty, NY. While he was there, he got took a panoramic portrait of the now-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 12:08 pm
If you see a tall thin man with a bandana and a bundle of cash in Ulster County, you might want to call the cops:
Undersheriff Frank Faluotico said the robbery took place at the Bank of America on Mill Hill Road at about 9:20 a.m.
The robber — described... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 10:06 am
Video of yesterday's fire posted by YouTube user Aylazon.
The inferno in the town of Esopus yesterday was nightmarish -- the flames were so hot that they melted a natural gas pipeline buried underground, according to the Daily Freeman. (They also... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 5:54 pm
If the four North Carolinians hadn't been busted in Kingston, that is. The Times Herald-Record reports that a carful of alleged drug-possessers were relieved of a rather large amount of hallucinatory booty on Saturday:
The four, all in their 20s and 30s,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 4:55 pm
Hanging laundry out to dry has a spiritual dimension, writes Schoharie-based farmer Shannon Hayes in an essay in Yes! Magazine. (The New York Times did a great profile of Hayes in 2007.)
Hayes is already a prolific cookbook author ("The Grassfed Gourmet... Read more
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