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By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 11:32 pm
Thanks in part to a push from the Daily Freeman, the web service SeeClickFix is getting a lot of use in Kingston lately. The Freeman lists activity from a day in the life of the service, from complaints about potholes to barely-veiled calls for vigilante... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:21 am
As if you hadn't heard enough from the DEC this week, the Times Union ran an interview today with Wallace "Wally" John, the special assistant for natural resources to Pete Grannis and a West Shokan resident. No mention of, oh, gas drilling in the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 26, 2010 - 9:06 am
Gas prices in New York really did jump by 5.4 cents last week. For no real reason, since the national average has stayed flat, according to the Daily Freeman.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 4:41 pm
Anna and Robert Dioguardi of Catskill Retreat are looking for some enterprising caprines to help keep their lawn under control.
Naturally, there's a Goat Rental directory on the Internet. Alas, it has no New York State listings. Surely it's only a matter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 3:23 pm
The Daily Yonder tipped us off to this: In Kentucky, poet and newspaper columnist Constance Alexander recently lampooned the state's perpetually tardy budgetmakers with a mocking bit of verse modeled after "Casey At The Bat." An excerpt:
The outlook isn't... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Don't get mud on those $114 "Dry Aged" jeans from Barney's, guys. (What do they do, hang them from meathooks?)
Though I admit: That orange enamel cookpot is totally classy.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 2:12 pm
Catskill High School and Middle School went on lockdown on Thursday after the superintendent heard what she thought was a gunshot. Turns out it was actually a tree limb crashing, she later told the Daily Freeman:
The schools immediately went into lock-out... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 1:26 pm
Despite a statewide burn ban that prohibits any burning of brush until May 14, town fire departments are still allowed to burn brush as part of their training exercises. But towns looking to kill two birds with one stone by having the fire department burn... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 24, 2010 - 7:05 pm
Richard Reeve, the head of the Family Foundation and a Catskills blogger in his own right, caught this shot of a ruined castle on the Hudson this week. It's near Beacon, on the eastern shore of the river, so not quite the Catskills, but we couldn't resist... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 24, 2010 - 10:06 am
For folks in search of sources for raw cow and goat milk, Pure Catskills helpfully posts a list of local farms.
Photo of raw milk being skimmed by Flickr user Chiot's Run. Posted under a Creative Commons license.
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