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By wateradmin on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011 - 9:38 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. To see a full-size version of this cartoon, click here. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context about this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Daniel Torres speaking at an anti-gas-drilling rally in New Paltz last June. Photo by Julia Reischel
Twenty-year-old Daniel Torres, who as a member of the New Paltz Board of Education is the youngest person ever elected in the town, has posted a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Hudson Valley Business posted a story this week about New Paltz's Unison Arts Center, which is struggling to survive in a moribund economy and might soon face the budget knives under new Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Unison, which has been around since the... Read more
By Bookbunny on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 7:16 pm
Foreign language books have been a surprise best seller in our book shop in Pine Hill. We often run across books in Spanish, German, or French when we buy boxes of books from other dealers and customers. We started to display them as a lark in a "... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 2:57 pm
This just in from the Times Herald-Record: Facing threats of legal action from Ulster County over their releases of turbid water into the Esopus Creek, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has promised to stop the releases in 30 days.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 2:51 pm
Yesterday's New York Times featured the town of Roxbury in Delaware County in a big way: Reporter Bethany Lyttle, who has a house in Roxbury, interviewed fellow Roxbury fellows-about-town Michael Mathis and Christopher Durham about how they've managed to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 11:47 am
Hunter Mountain has posted a pretty incredible mini-movie of snowboarders enjoying the 10 inches of beautiful snow it got this week. Makes you want to get outside this weekend, doesn't it?
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 10:05 am
Quote of the day: Former GOP Assemblyman Thomas Kirwan, who may or may not be representing New York's 100th Assembly District for the next two years, depending on the outcome of a vote recount that is still (believe it or not) dragging on. From the Daily... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 - 9:44 am
An incident on Wednesday which ended with three Lanes arrested on various snowplow- and baseball-bat-related charges has yielded a few more arrests. From the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Detectives from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the... Read more
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