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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm
In the Daily Star today: Thanks to donations, Oneonta's embattled Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center has enough money to keep the lights on for at least a few months.
About $110,000 in contributions will keep Foothills operating for several... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 10:13 am
Last night, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart interviewed oilman T. Boone Pickens about fracking and its prominent place in the Pickens Plan for American energy independence.
Highlights include Jon Stewart asking Pickens whether or not he's annoyed that BP has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:57 am
Cheesemaking Help, a blog dedicated to (surprise, surprise) the fine art of cheese and the making thereof, published a wonderful interview yesterday with a member of the Osmanli Dergah, the Sidney Sufi community that was in the news so much last year... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:30 am
Yesterday, word got around that the organizers of the indie music festival All Tomorrow's Parties have decided to move their three-day rock concert from the Kutshers resort in Monticello to a new venue on the Jersey Shore.
The festival's organizers tried... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 5:26 pm
Leave it to the New York Daily News to faithfully follow the story of Benjamin, the monkey terror of Greene County, who attacked a guest at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast last summer and then was spirited away to Florida by his owner, who himself fled... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 4:33 pm
Above: A little brown bat with white-nose syndrome symptoms. Via the Flickr page of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.
Phil Brown of the Adirondack Almanack posted a story yesterday about his visit to New York state's largest bat... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 2:44 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that an Ulster County Highway Department snow plow collided with a school bus loaded with 25 kids in the Town of Esopus this morning. The bus driver and two students were reportedly taken to Kingston... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 1:54 pm
ProPublica, whose reporter Abrahm Lustgarten is currently one of the most prominent critics of hydrofracking in the media, published a long piece yesterday that casts doubt on the purported climate benefits of natural gas. An excerpt:
Advocates for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 10:02 am
Monticello just lost one of its coolest attractions -- the indie-rock festival All Tomorrow's Parties, which was held at Kutshers Country Club for the past three years. This year, the festival's organizers told the New York Times on Tuesday, ATP will be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 - 8:39 am
Delaware County real estate agent Frank Lumia (who, full disclosure, is one of our business subscribers), has produced a video for the environmental news and video website BigGreenTV that explains water pollution by using magic tricks.
Lumia is a magician... Read more
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