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By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 20, 2010 - 12:57 pm
If you missed homegrown Delaware County twang-rockers Esquela at the Autumn Cafe last night, you'll get your chance. The band is celebrating the release of The Owl Has Landed, their upcoming album from Bovina Records, with a couple of back-to-back parties... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:45 pm
The proposed conference center development for Partition Street in the village of Saugerties was debated last night at a long-awaited public meeting of the village's Planning Board. Today, the conversation is still going on at the comment boards at the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:29 pm
According to a press release sent by Congressman Maurice Hinchey's office today, Gov. Paterson can't possibly close 41 state parks, because federal law doesn't allow it.
[T]he head of the National Park Service (NPS) told the congressman this week that the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Come for the fresh guacamole, stay for the pineapple-infused tequila. Hudson Valley Magazine's Lynn Hazlewood checks out Gaby's Cafe, a new-ish Mexican place in Ellenville, and declares it delectable:
It’s a casual little place, painted in bright, fruity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 1:37 pm
But it isn't photographer and Flickr user Richardm740 of Stamford. (Photo reproduced with permission.)
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:31 am
Aaaaand the prize goes to the Shawangunk Journal, for yesterday's story on flooding in Wawarsing: "Pump and Circumstance."
Part of Wawarsing is perched atop New York City's leaking Delaware Aqueduct. State senator John Bonacic is trying to get approval... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 11:07 am
Something strange haunts a certain house on North Manheim Boulevard in New Paltz. You may have noticed it. One recent commentor on the Ulster Publishing forum did:
If you are driving on Henry Dubois Road in New Paltz where it intersects with North... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 10:02 am
The EPA announced yesterday that the agency will conduct a two-year, $1.9 million, peer-reviewed study of the effects of horizontal natural gas drilling on drinking water.
Bring it on, gas companies say--but the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that shares... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 10:47 pm
Long Island Democrat Steve Levy jumps fence, joins GOP, declares he's running for governor. This should be fun.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 - 9:56 pm
Steve's Digicams, a digital camera site whose members often share photographs in the forums, has some incredible recent pictures of the Ashokan from Samsonville Road. Check it out.



