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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:30 pm
We're debuting something new today: Facebook comments. Instead of our old system, which let people choose between anonymous commenting and registering for a username on our site, we're now asking commenters to use their Facebook identities to post... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 10:15 am
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced yesterday that she had been named chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security. From the press release (via the Catskill Chronicle):
Senator Gillibrand will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 8:45 am
Lee Hoiby, a reclusive Catskills-loving composer who adapted one of Tennessee Williams' plays into an opera, died yesterday, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lee Hoiby, a Sullivan County-based composer whose operas were performed everywhere from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Sullivan County farmer Bob Franklin has been making headlines lately -- for expanding his dairy operation at a time when many dairy farmers are in dire straits. (And for getting a visit from Congressman Maurice Hinchey, seen above admiring one of Franklin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 10:06 am
In the wake of a merger with Community Bank System, a banking company based near Syracuse, the Oneonta-based Wilber National Bank has announced they're making 63 layoffs. The Daily Star reports:
Monday's announcement "slammed" the dedicated employees of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 8:23 am
Amazing story in the Freeman today about Antonio Flores-Lobos, the editor of the Daily Freeman's Spanish publication Las Noticias, who stopped a suicidal woman on the Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge on Friday just as she was about to jump.
The story is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:29 pm
For most of us, the arrival of the first buds of early spring is a welcome sign that winter's on its way out. For an ecologist, every unfolding blossom is a data point. By making careful records of when each plant begins to bloom, scientists hope to paint... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:14 pm
The Daily Star, which was one of the sponsors of Saturday's Regional Spelling Bee, reports that 12-year-old Tatum Kiff from Sidney Central School won a trip to Washington, DC. She'll compete against other kids from across the country in the Scripps... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 5:13 pm
With the help of two antiques dealers, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that it has arrested Joseph Hunter and Quinn Gaffney for allegedly stealing antiques on Partition Street in Saugerties and then selling them 100 yards away on Main... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 4:35 pm
Martha Frankel, a Boiceville-based writer, artist and provocateur, shared some intimate memories of the late Elizabeth Taylor with the Daily Freeman this week. Frankel recalls that she met Taylor while strenuously trying not to offend her by making eye... Read more
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