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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 - 9:47 am
Video of nurse-in at Kingston Target on Wednesday, December 28 by YouTube user mamakating.
When Texas mom Michelle Hickman was hassled in her local Target store for breastfeeding her infant, she turned to breastfeeding advocates who helped organize a... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 - 5:10 pm
Prince Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff
Prince Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, a former New York City highway commissioner, one-time head of the city’s Department of Transportation, and Environmental Protection Agency - Region 2 administrator, died last week at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 - 2:09 pm
Above: "David and Goliath," a cartoon by Gary Mayer showing Mike Hein as a stone-throwing David to NYC's Golaith, which ran on the Watershed Post a year ago.
Maybe Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is a bona-fide upstate firebrand representing the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 - 11:21 pm
Ulster County sheriff's deputies report that a home on Old Unionville Road in Plattekill was robbed by armed invaders early this morning. Police say that around 4am, two men entered the house armed with handguns, took some property, and struck one... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 - 11:26 am
Above: Video footage shot in 2009 by undercover PETA investigator at the Angel's Gate animal hospice in Delhi.
Susan Marino, a 60-year-old Delhi resident and the founder of the Angel's Gate animal hospice, has been arrested on five counts of cruelty to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 - 3:29 pm
A horrific murder of a 54-year-old woman made headlines in Ulster County and across the state last week. On December 21, Ann Gaffney was found beaten to death in her home on Old Route 209 in the Town of Hurley.
According to a press release from the New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 - 11:40 am
The Onteora Central School District is currently contemplating a reconfiguration of its three elementary schools -- a process that could result in the closing of a school, or a new division of the grade levels.
The Onteora Board of Education recently... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 - 11:42 am
Photo by Flickr user Sonja Alves. Published under Creative Commons license.
Everybody needs a holiday now and then, even new-media news junkies. We're going to be spending some time during these last two weeks of 2011 on things that can't be done while... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 - 10:00 am
Above: DEP Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush at the Ashokan Reservoir this summer. Photo from the DEP, via Flickr.
The relationship between the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate communities who live in its watershed is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 - 3:53 pm
Today, the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith, Delaware County, did its first "ice check" of the season. It's a winter ritual that culminates in the annual Ice Harvest, a festive occasion each February that involves kids wielding traditional ice-... Read more
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