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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 10:21 am
Out-of-towner Danielle Azoulay wonders what's up with all those "Save The Mountain" signs in Mt. Tremper, stops at a nearby shop and gets herself an education in local politics.
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 11:53 am
NPR's All Things Considered has a terrific radio piece on the late Killian Mansfield, a masterful ukelele player from Woodstock who died of cancer last August at age 16. Mansfield's first and last album, Somewhere Else, was recorded last year. Host Guy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 10:27 am
Kingston Citizens contributor Arthur Zaczkiewicz has some ideas on what Kingston could do to be a better place to live. (Ten of them, to be exact.) Here's Number One: Greater Unification. From the socio-economic to business to the political, Kingston – to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 - 2:33 pm
Acclaimed musician Lhasa de Sela, who spent much of her professional life in Montreal, died of breast cancer at the age of 37 this New Years' Day. The Globe and Mail has an obit: Music in an unfamiliar language is too often relegated to a niche genre -... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 - 3:02 pm
Ellenville's floundering, decrepit, once-glittery Nevele Grande Resort has been sold. Finally. Brooklyn builder Raphael Weiss of Tricon Development partnered with the Giluet Foundation is in contract to buy the resort from the Stratford Business... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 - 11:33 am
If you have a stake in the future of the arts, theatre and small movie houses in the region, you might want to be in Rosendale tomorrow night to discuss the Rosendale Theatre Collective's plans for the Rosendale Theatre. Mike Madsen at Kingston... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 - 4:39 pm
An eagle-eyed Freeman reader at the Kingston Navigator blog spotted a legal notice for a hearing on Central Hudson's proposed energy and gas rate hikes. A public hearing is scheduled in Kingston on Tuesday, January 26th 2010. 6:00pm, Kingston City Hall... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 - 4:32 pm
It's only January, but About Olive has had enough of the single-digit temperatures. Life is rough here in the mountains in winter. I'd like to see the survivor TV show drop those folks here in January and see who survives.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Famed drag comedian (and one-time NYC mayoral candidate) Murray Hill tweets: The best show in town... X-country skiing at Frost Valley in Catskills, and the pancakes at Sweet Sue's in Phoencia.
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 10:25 pm
Unless things change dramatically for Emilio Maya, a restaurant owner, husband and father in Saugerties, he'll be on a plane to Argentina in a few weeks. A Daily Freeman story reports that on November 17, immigration agents seized him on his way to work... Read more

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