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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 7:26 am
Jeremy Blaber notices some drama on Ulster County GOP chairwoman Robin Yess's Facebook wall. Looks like local farmer and gay-rights activist Billiam van Roestenberg was mad enough about Yess's support for Carl Paladino to get personal.
It's been said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:56 pm
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
7pm update: Add Schoharie, Ulster, and Greene Counties to Friday's forecast. Also, add "localized amounts of up to 6 inches" of rain, and some snow at high altitudes. This is starting to look a little grim.
There's another flood watch on for much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 2:14 pm
The head of Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, executive director Michael Bemis, got the axe last night at a meeting of the agency's oversight board. Bemis's departure comes in the wake of a report by Ulster County comptroller Eliott Auerbach that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 12:42 pm
The folks over at Windham Mountain say that it was pretty frosty there this morning, and they have photo to prove it on their Facebook page.
Got any frost photos? Send them to us at [email protected], or upload them to our Flickr page.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:54 am
11am 10/13/10 update: Delaware County Emergency Services has just issued a press release detailing the cause of yesterday's deadly fire: "an accidental electrical shortage" in a power cord that was placed under the kitchen stove. Here's the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:29 am
A photo of Paladino walking by the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center in Kingston yesterday. From the Hudson Valley Chronic's Facebook page.
After kicking up a huge gay rights controversy with a few choice quotes issued on Sunday, Carl Paladino, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 9:50 am
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 8:56 am
U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey brought the star power to campaign for him in Binghamton on Monday: None other than Mr. Bill Clinton himself, who spoke to 600 fans, according to Fox 40. (The Star Gazette has a photo gallery.)
Hinchey's Republican... Read more



