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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 - 11:15 am
On Tuesday, the New York Observer ran a beautiful portrait of Lee Hoiby, an 84-year-old composer who is experiencing an unexpected renaissance. The reporter interviewed Hoiby in his home in an undisclosed location in the Catskills, and came away with an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:36 am
The Daily Mail reports:
CATSKILL — A former Coxsackie police sergeant and substance abuse educator was charged with drunk driving for the second time in the last decade.
Albany police officer Brian Lutz, who was once a Drug Abuse Resistance Education... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 - 10:24 am
The Times Herald-Record's Adam Bosch reports that the state Department of Enviromental Conservation is pressuring the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to develop a better plan for releasing water from the Ashokan Reservoir into the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:38 pm
The future of community FM radio is currently being plotted in the back rooms of the US Senate, in the form of a bill that could dramatically increase the number of licenses available to community radio stations.
The bill has broad support from both the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Photographer Rusty Tagliareni is coming out with a book, he writes on LiveJournal, that will include some photographs of abandoned Catskills resorts. Yesterday, he posted a some images of one of the resorts, along with some tantalizing commentary:
The... Read more
By Bookbunny on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 11:25 am
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 9:59 am
The Daily Freeman's William Kemble reports that officials from towns along the muddy banks of the lower Esopus are meeting with the state DEC today, to hammer out talking points for another meeting to be held Friday with the New York City DEP.
The topic?... Read more
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