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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 11:53 am
The scene at yesterday's Otsego County board meeting in Cooperstown to discuss hydrofracking: Beefed-up security, a crammed-to-the-gills county building, and people being turned away at the door.
Andrew Minnig of Cherry Valley said his first concern was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 11:39 am
He may be the reincarnation of Marlon Brando, but Mark Ruffalo really just wants to own a cow. NPR pays a visit to Callicoon, where Ruffalo lives in a farmhouse with his family and knows the names of his neighbors. (He already has chickens, but the bovine... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 9:59 am
When people get angry about things as benign as farm stands, they get really angry. Phoenicia's Hanover Farms, a large and successful farm stand on Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper, has been a flashpoint of angst for years.
In a nutshell, owner Al Higley's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 10:38 pm
There are plans afoot to create a local currency for the Hudson Valley known as the Hudson Valley Current. (The publisher of the Chronogram is one of the backers of the initiative, which is being spearheaded by a nascent nonprofit called the Center for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 4:29 pm
Remember last week's shooting on Clinton Avenue? There's another victim, and he's apparently a fearsomely stoic individual. Scott Nesbitt, who police say was walking with victim Raymond Smith and another man when the bullets began flying, has been going... Read more
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