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By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 - 9:38 am
The AP has an incredible story about Saugerties business owners Emilio and Analia Maya, Argentine natives who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and who now face deportation.
According to the story, the brother and sister have been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 - 1:56 pm
Friends of the Pleistocene tells a fascinating detective story about where New York City's road salt comes from--not from vast salt mines in upstate New York, but from much farther away.
This week New York City will become, as most cities will at some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
The Evening Sun reports that a Chenango County board of supervisors meeting this week got unusually feisty on the topic of natural-gas hydrofracking.
Supervisor Ross Iannello kicked off the discussion about local exploration and drilling by asking for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:11 pm
Cairo residents: Beware cheerleaders bearing potpourri.
Authorities have arrested a female suspect in connection with the fraudulent sale of flowers and potpourri throughout the Town of Cairo by two women posing as Cairo-Durham high school cheerleaders.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:00 pm
The prize goes to the Kingston Times for this glorious specimen:
Fowl Play: Catskill Animal Sanctuary volunteers travel 1,000 miles to rescue sickly chickens after crystal meth lab bust
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 8:06 pm
A testament to the mighty power of blog: Greene County chronicler Dick May appears to have scored a point for open government with a post he wrote a couple of weeks ago.
Last month, May wrote in his Seeing Greene blog that Catskill village police were... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 5:35 pm
For their meat or milk to be labeled organic, the USDA ruled today, cows must have access to pasture for at least 120 days out of the year. That goes for sheep and goats, too.
The final rule provides certainty to consumers that organic livestock... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 12:15 pm
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 11:39 am
When he isn't running for public office, Justin Holmes, who became locally famous (or notorious) for battling his alma mater SUNY New Paltz a couple of years ago, is saving the world from behind the counter of a new New Paltz coffeeshop. Called /root (... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 - 10:18 am
The literati descend on Woodstock this weekend for four days of workshopping, schmoozing, wining and dining. The guest list this year includes Shalom Auslander, Susan Orlean and Ruth Reichl. (If you want to get Reichl to dish about the tragic demise of... Read more
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