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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 11:39 am
When he isn't running for public office, Justin Holmes, who became locally famous (or notorious) for battling his alma mater SUNY New Paltz a couple of years ago, is saving the world from behind the counter of a new New Paltz coffeeshop. Called /root (... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:18 am
The literati descend on Woodstock this weekend for four days of workshopping, schmoozing, wining and dining. The guest list this year includes Shalom Auslander, Susan Orlean and Ruth Reichl. (If you want to get Reichl to dish about the tragic demise of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 - 9:09 pm
Since last summer, an outbreak of mumps has been spreading in New York and New Jersey, mostly among Orthodox Jews. The AP has the story:
The 7-month-old outbreak began last summer at a boys camp in the Catskills. The campers were from Orthodox Jewish... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 - 10:22 am
L Magazine reviews the documentary about a family's hard luck in the Mohawk Valley.
The documentary's co-director, never identified or referred to by the people onscreen, who took the photographs and wrote the essays that eventually led to its making,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 - 3:08 pm
45,000 mammals a year in St. Lawrence County alone. That works out to about a kill every other year for every person 18 and over in the county.
The number, an estimate based on a year's worth of weekly surveys of typical roads in the area, comes from a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 - 10:59 pm
Anthony Bourdain's show hit the Hudson Valley in tonight's episode. They made it as far north as the Mohonk Mountain House and the Rondout Bay Marina in Kingston.
Meanwhile, the Times Herald-Record reports, a few local chefs are plotting their own TV show...
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 - 10:08 pm
Momma D has the details.
I announced in November that my friend and I had ventured into a new project. One that would take a lot of time and a lot of organizing. We are diligently working to open a Children's Museum in our hometown.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 - 11:45 am
Changes are afoot at Woodstock's independent movie theater, according to the Woodstock Times.
New managers Dede and Steve Leiber, who own a nonprofit movie theater in Rhinebeck called Upstate Films, began leasing the Tinker Street Cinema this month.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 - 4:44 pm
Seeing Greene blogger Dick May has the latest. Highlights: an upcoming county judge election is looking spicy, a local bank is raking it in, and the town of Catskill is gearing up for another big fiberglass cat festival this summer.
Among the catidates... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Ulster County political types really like the Internet. Comptroller Eliot Auerbach has a blog. So do legislator Mike Madsen and former Kingston mayoral candidate Rich Cahill. There's Jeremy Blaber, a Democratic campaigner with a lively blog on the Ulster... Read more
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