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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 11:45 am
The Greene County Council on the Arts, which was preparing to lose its shirt in the economic meltdown two months ago, has been saved by donations, the Daily Freeman reports.
Earlier: New York State: Putting the "starving" back in 'artist"
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 10:48 am
Yesterday's fire in Saugerties destroyed 123 Partition St., which housed a wine store and five apartments, the Daily Freeman reports, but no one was hurt in the blaze:
No one who lives or works in the building was injured, though one firefighter strained... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 6:40 am
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann anointed Sidney town supervisor Bob McCarthy the day's "Worst Person In The World," for leading a charge to dig up a local Sufi community's tiny cemetery over a nebulous permitting issue.
No TV personality can ever... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:04 am
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:44 am
There's a four-family apartment building on fire in Saugerties right now, according to a tweet by the Ulster County Red Cross. The state transportation alert system is reporting that Rte. 9W between Main St. and Russell St. is closed because of the blaze... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:38 am
The National Weather Service just issued a Tornado Watch for most of eastern New York, including the Catskills region:
Tornado Watch issued September 28 at 9:57AM CDT expiring September 28 at 5:00PM CDT by NWS Storm Prediction Center
Activation Time: 09/... Read more
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