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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 3:04 pm
What happens when a designer goes on a road trip through Ulster County? She falls in love with the fonts on the signs.
Yesterday, Gail Anderson, who sits on the board of directors of the Society of Publication Designers, shared the photographic fruits of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 2:30 pm
In today's Daily Star, Patricia Breakey reports that the Delaware County Board of Supervisors has found an interim occupant for the position of Stop DWI coordinator left vacant after the controversial dismissal of Lisa Barrows last month.
Barrows's job... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 11:24 am
Batten down the hatches, folks, it's gonna snow tomorrow. From NY Alert:
..Heavy Snows Possible Friday And Friday Night... .An Upper Level Disturbance Will Move Off The Southeast Coast Overnight Tonight. As It Does So...Surface Low Pressure Is Expected To... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 10:47 am
In the Daily Star today: An item on a new book out about the life of Bisbee's General Store in Meridale, destroyed by fire in 1976.
In case you're tempted to yawn: Pause for a moment and picture this scene, from the Delaware County Genealogy and History... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 8:25 am
A bitter dispute between former Governor David Paterson and Greene County over whether or not the county had the authority to appoint an interim treasurer -- which had resulted in the withholding of millions of dollars in state funds to the county -- is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 11:32 am
Joe Martens: Photo via the Adirondack Park AgencyYesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his choice for the head of the embattled New York Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency that has burned through two chiefs in three months, will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 9:55 am
The Daily Mail reports that a house on Mountain Avenue has been destroyed by fire -- thankfully, with no injuries, either human or animal.
Residents Joseph and Adele Spinelli could not be located after emergency personnel arrived on the scene, and there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 8:34 am
The Freeman reports that the Woodstock Town Board has renewed a policy that empowers the Board to discourage general municipal mayhem, in order to "keep town meetings from becoming debate sessions among members of the audience and extending past midnight... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 4:26 pm
Lisa Ramirez, in "Exit Cuckoo: Nanny in Motherland." Photo by via the Exit Cuckoo website.
New York City actor and playwright Lisa Ramirez, who wrote and starred in a well-reviewed one-woman show about nannies in 2009, is making the Latina female... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Not a minute too soon: Soggy, soggy Delhi is joining nine other communities across the country in a pilot project to map flooding data.
Locally, the study is being sponsored by the USGS and the Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District. The... Read more
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