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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 7:59 pm
From the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, July 8th, firefighters from East Branch and Downsville Volunteer Fire Departments and Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a structure fire on White... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 2:39 pm
The unstoppable Ulla Kjarval, daughter of a local grass-fed beef farmer and herself a passionate local-foods and farming advocate, had an interview last week with Eat To Blog. Here, she opines on what can be done to fix our broken national food system:
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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Anybody know more about this? We got an alert from the NY DOT:
building fire has closed Route 97 South and North bound within the Village of Hancock @ 8am 7/14/2010 for about 4 hours, with local detours set-up
Please send eyewitness accounts, photos, or... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 11:13 am
On Monday night, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's plan to buy more private land in the upstate watershed met a skeptical crowd at a public hearing at SUNY Delhi.
The Land Acquisition Program, as the DEP calls it, is the linchpin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 10:40 am
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that Hurley resident Evan Stauble, who had been missing since July 1, was found dead on Sunday.
Kingston police were the last to see Evan Stauble, walking across the Route 9W bridge that connects Kingston to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Rich Blake, blogging at the hedge-fund-oriented Hedgeworld, begins a critique of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac with a meditation on the repairs he has to do on his Big Indian cabin:
I own a tiny, cottage-style house in Ulster County, New York, in a valley... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:12 pm
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 5:13 pm
Downy mildew on a basil plant: From the Cornell Dept. of Plant Pathology website. It's downy, it's mildew-ey, and it's out to wilt your basil, the Times Herald-Record reports:
It's called downy mildew, and it's infecting basil plants across New York, as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
Thanks to state Assemblyman and Attorney General hopeful Richard Brodsky, who has been demanding to know why quasi-public agencies have been handing out bonuses to their executives, we now know that Alexander Mathes, the executive director of the Greene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 9:14 pm
The Monticello Wal-Mart has begun seriously beefing up its kosher section. But Sullivan County's independent kosher shops aren't being caught napping by the 800-pound retail gorilla: They're confident they can serve their niche market better. The Times... Read more
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