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By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:54 pm
Daily Freeman: Police seeking Midtown gunman in gang-related shooting.
The victim was shot in the forearm, and is recovering. Now all we need is one more local arm-shooting and we'll have a trend.
Here's hoping the shooter's friends aren't reading the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 1:31 pm
DC Bureau, a nonprofit investigative news outlet, reports that Congressman Maurice Hinchey is denying knowledge of his wife's recent work on behalf of a Texas landmen's organization.
For at least two years of their marriage, Hinchey’s wife, Allison Lee,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 11:55 pm
Pure Catskills, the local-food-and-farms program run by the Watershed Agricultural Council, is running a photo contest. Instructions from their blog:
Each photo entered will:
• Feature a local farm and/or food theme
• Feature a location or a business in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:50 pm
Best story yet in the relentless barrage of news coming out of Cooperstown: NYT reporter/heir A.G. Sulzberger breaks a date to cover the story (haven't we all?), orders a Diet Coke (but he's so slim already!), and worries about costing his father's multi-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 10:24 pm
Nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica, whose reporter Abraham Lustgarten has been writing exclusively about the risks of horizontal natural gas drilling since 2008, has a new gas story today. At hand: the EPA's upcoming two-year study of the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:34 pm
Maria at the New Paltz Gadfly takes aim at a proposed noise ordinance in her fair city:
The new proposal requires a permit from the Village Board to attract public attention using any noise (2-5 F, 2-9 A, B). This one is pretty convenient at keeping... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:07 pm
Ah, the miracle of modern digital photography. This may look like an Instamatic print from a battered box marked "Spring 1967," but this nostalgia-hued snapshot of the ice on North-South Lake was taken last week.
Photo by Flickr user Catskills Grrl. All... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 9:24 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that when a bear tried to crawl into a Parksville house on Sunday, the woman inside made three calls: to the state police, to the Department of Environmental Conservation, and to her grandfather. Unluckily for the bear,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 8:56 am
Bird-watching fanatic Corey Finger, a Saugerties ex-pat who now lives in New York City, spent his Easter morning tromping around the swamp. He got some great bird photos and a shot of a tree-dwelling porcupine:
I went for a drive to the Great Vly, a large... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 6, 2010 - 11:13 pm
It probably isn't news to locals that in Ulster County, the city of Kingston pays for the lion's share of Safety Net, a statewide welfare program. In most of the state, the buck stops with the county. Not so in Ulster County, which bills towns for half... Read more
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