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By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 1:03 pm
An AP story in the Daily Freeman announces with some fanfare that the state depertment of health and the DEC have just developed a new online, interactive map plotting the incidence of cancer and pollution sites.
That's fantastic. Way to put powerful data... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:50 pm
In the Daily Mail today: Greene County Council on the Arts pleads the state not to decimate its arts budget.
Kay Stamer, executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts, came before the county Legislature Wednesday with a plea of support.
“... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
The Daily Star reports:
The shootings occurred at about 10 p.m. Sunday, police said. Daisy Schultz, 65, of Walton, and Richard Utter, 74, of Norwich, died as a result, police said.
Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said he was called and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Daily Star columnist Rick Brockway encounters a piece of history on a Catskills hike:
The aluminum fuselage and tattered wings are all that remained of the plane. If John Grace had been flying just a few feet higher, he would have missed the wooded peak... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:09 pm
According to the Mid-Hudson News, Sullivan County does not have equipment for monitoring either ozone or particulates in the air. And it's not alone:
In the Hudson Valley, most counties have ozone monitoring devices, but only Orange and Westchester have... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, May. 9, 2010 - 3:09 pm
Surefire way to arouse the righteous ire of a newspaper type, in three easy steps:
1. Commit some mildly salacious act.
2. Make a ham-fisted attempt at covering it up.
3. When caught by a reporter, (a.) beg them not to write a story, and when that doesn't... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 5:39 pm
Cathryn Platine, the Reverend Mother of the Maetreum of Cybele.
Palenville’s loudest property tax critic is a witch.
Cathryn Platine, a towering 60-year-old pagan who can trace her ancestry back to one of the witches who was hung in Salem in 1692, is the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 4:13 pm
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks, 17... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 3:25 pm
Bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night. At least that's what they say in the thyu-tuh -- and it seems to have been true for the Margaretville Central School's performance of Carousel for their classmates this week, according to beleaguered... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 1:47 pm
The Iroquois Gas Transmission System's planned natural gas pipeline through the Hudson Valley will go through Ulster County, the Freeman reports.
The natural gas pipeline — which needs approval from, among others, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... Read more
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