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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:39 am
Policy watchdog Environmental Advocates of New York has flunked state senators John Bonacic and Bill Larkin on environmental issues, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports. It's because they both voted to kill a bill that would've allowed people in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 12, 2010 - 11:13 am
Twenty-three Ulster County centenarians were feted by the Ulster County Office of Aging last Friday. Seems like a lot of venerable aged folks for one county, doesn't it? Apparently, whiskey has something to do with it, according to YNN Hudson Valley:
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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 5:05 pm
It has to take a particular kind of crazy to get yourself chased by the police, have your truck flip over, and then land on your wheels and keep going. And on Rte. 10 in the town of Summit, which, as its name implies, is on the top of a mountain. Elijah... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 1:33 pm
Upstate communities that rely on tourist dollars are bemoaning the loss of an I Love New York program that gives matching funds to counties, the AP reports.
“This is our season, this our time, this is when we’re luring those travelers and those expendable... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 12:22 pm
The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 9:45 am
Despite last weekend's freakish weather, the good people of Fleischmanns still celebrated Cinco de Mayo (on Saturday, May 8) with music and lots of food. Jessica Vecchione was on hand with her video camera to capture the scene:
Cinco De Mayo Celebration... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Empire State Future's Peter B. Fleischer lays out the case against malignant sprawl in yesterday's Albany Times-Union.
Today's upstate sprawl extends considerably farther away from town and city centers; consists of larger homes built on larger lots (many... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:56 pm
The Ulster County distillery gets a nod in a recent Food and Wine roundup of best new American whiskies:
According to Tuthilltown Spirits, New York had upward of 1,000 farm stills before the 1919 ratification of the Volstead act made them all illegal.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:30 pm
The DEC is mulling some new regulations, in an attempt to crack down on the vastly idiotic, yet depressingly widespread, practice of leaving food out where bears can get it. From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise:
The new regulations would ban the feeding... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:06 pm
If you were one of those foohardy souls who got seduced by the beautiful weather into planting a bunch of vegetables, you'd best get out there with your row covers:
ANOTHER COLD SPRING NIGHT IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION. CALM WINDS AND COLD AIR WILL... Read more
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