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By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Never mind a movie theatre or a stoplight: The tiny Ulster County town of Denning is too small even to have a town park. That's about to change, thanks to local realtor Jennifer Grimes, who's looking for a few good dirt- and flower-wranglers to help put... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Truck, a three-day annual music fest that's been running in Britain since 1998, touched down on American soil last weekend for the first time. The venue: The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian.
Local music writer Tony Fletcher says he's "desperately hoping it... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 8:44 pm
A Brooklyn postal worker recently headed for the hills with a trunk full of (allegedly) stolen mail and was caught red-handed, the New York Post reports.
Letter carrier Peter Ramsdal, 26, who works out of the Dyker Heights Post Office, had stashed the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 8:29 pm
The Catskill Watershed Corporation just launched a new website that will, according to their press release, "promote the Catskill region as a place to visit, relocate and do business," "provide a "geographic, demographic and cultural overview of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 12:23 pm
A few weeks ago, Crossroads developer Dean Gitter was swearing up and down that state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wasn't holding up a key 2007 Belleayre land deal because of the hefty price tag, never mind what the New York Post had to say about it.
Looks... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 12:05 pm
While hunting deer in a suit made with activated charcoal to mask his scent, Frank Bibbo, who lives on Denver Vega Road in Roxbury, realized that the stuff had more marketable applications, according to the Examiner:
While wearing the activated charcoal... Read more
By Country House Realty on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:22 am
Just about 2 hrs from the George Washington Bridge you'll turn off a country road and drive up, and up, until arriving at your utterly tranquil destination at the top of Wildcat Mountain. The 2 bedroom cabin was recently renovated, with two new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 9:21 pm
Today's Daily Yonder breaks open a shiny box of BEA statistics, and comes up with a neat map of income growth in rural areas between 2007 and 2008:
When you rank the nation’s 3,112 counties according to their growth in personal income between 2007 and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 8:17 pm
From the New York Times this afternoon:
Joseph L. Bruno, the former Republican Senate majority leader who reigned for more than a decade as one of the most powerful politicians in New York State, was sentenced to two years on Thursday for concealing... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 6, 2010 - 3:49 pm
During yesterday's meeting of the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education, where the district's latest painful budget plan was presented for public comment, the only one to speak up about spending was a 15-year-old:
At the hearing, Sylvia... Read more
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