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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 8:36 am
It's another day of slow driving and ice covered roads, and like as not your local school is closed. Again.
(For a list a school closings, check out the Daily Freeman, the Times Herald-Record or Fox 23.)
The counties are sending out alerts about the road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 5:02 pm
Image: Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Today on Economix, the New York Times's economics blog, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser stakes out a controversial proposition -- controversial, that is, among non-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Hydraulic fracturing is shaping up to be one of the big dramas of our newly-minted 112th U.S. Congress, and the various actors are already hinting at how the debate will unfold.
President Barack Obama's administration has hinted that gas drilling could... Read more
By Bernadette Rexford on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 11:12 am
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 10:44 am
Jessica Vecchione shoots videos for the ARC of Delaware County, which provides services and education to people with disabilities. Her latest movie is a sweet look at how Belleayre Mountain hosted some of the ARC's students on the slopes this winter. Best... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 9:55 am
Maybe you should wait a few hours. According to 511NY.org, there have been nine accidents on the Thruway today. Look out especially for these two:
NYS Thruway Authority CAD: accident on I-87 - NYS Thruway northbound between Exit 20 (I-87) - Saugerties (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 9:00 am
Radar image of a storm system moving over the Catskills today, From the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service is warning drivers across the Catskills today that a pernicious mix of snow and sleet will make the roads an ice rink this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Above: A video montage of clips from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, set to Nina Simone's heartbreaking song, "Why (The King Of Love Is Dead).
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen has a tribute to King on his blog today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 2:44 pm
Goldenheart Unidiversity, a sustainable-living farm-based organization in Stamford, has made it to second place in this month's Pepsi Refresh grant competition for a $5,000 project about honeybees.
The project's page on the Pepsi Refresh website features... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 9:19 am
An 18-year-old woman, Erin Clare Malloy-McArdle, died after skiing into a tree on a Windham Mountain ski slope on Saturday morning.
According to a press release from the New York State Police, Mallow-Mcardle, who was a novice skier, skied off the trail... Read more
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