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Apr. 6, 2010
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
Apr. 6, 2010
Monticello, the Sullivan County village whose mayhem and machinations lately have been worthy of prime-time on HBO, continues to be wracked with political intrigue. The latest, in the Times Herald-Record: Twice-ousted village manager John Barbarite, a... Read more
Apr. 6, 2010
It turns out that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade on behalf of New York City drinking water only targeted about 10 percent of the drugs that humans flush down the toilet. The other 90 percent, according to an article in Time Magazine... Read more
Apr. 5, 2010
Reporters from across the state were hard at work over the Easter weekend, hoovering up any available details to try to explain Friday's horrifying shooting in Cooperstown.
WKTV in Utica found a parent of a black child who says bullying and racism are a... Read more
Apr. 5, 2010
Steve Schimmrich, the Hudson Valley Geologist, took advantage of the spectacular weather to hike in Minnewaska State Park on Good Friday.(He got some great pictures, too.)
Having a Ph.D in geology has its benefits: Where most of us probably would have... Read more
Apr. 5, 2010
The Times Herald-Record reports that a 34-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, was shot in the wee hours of Monday morning and died en route to the hospital.
Apr. 5, 2010
Updated DEP regulations, in the works for several years, went into effect over the weekend. The Daily Freeman has a story.
Apr. 3, 2010
White shooter, black victim. Without more facts, it's impossible to say why authorities are suspecting a racial motive to yesterday's dramatic showdown at the Cooperstown police station, but that's what the AP implies.
It began when the white teen... Read more
Apr. 2, 2010
Treadwell resident Linda Norris, who blogs at The Uncataloged Museum and is in the Ukraine on a Fulbright fellowship, reflects on village life in two continents.
I realized yesterday that there's one big difference between villages in the United States... Read more
Apr. 2, 2010
It sounds like a scene from an old Western: One teenager shoots another, then himself, in the Cooperstown police station.
Cooperstown Police Chief Diana T. Nicols said it all began when a car crashed into the iron gates just outside the National Baseball... Read more
Apr. 2, 2010
Trout season officially began in New York yesterday, to the delight of zillions of anglers (and the Catskills businesses that depend on them). The DEC says it's going to be a great year:
The state has experienced two consecutive summers of cool wet... Read more
Apr. 2, 2010
Verizon has officially announced that it won't be installing its high-speed fiber-optic cable network in most of upstate New York, or anywhere else it already isn't available. But that won't stop the company from advertising the service in areas where it... Read more
Apr. 2, 2010
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation dropped another piece of bad news about state parks yesterday: fees are going up. The press release says that parking fees will rise to $8 per vehicle at "flagship" state parks... Read more
Apr. 1, 2010
Yesterday's Daily Freeman had the goods: a Freedom of Information Law request turned up a damning report from the state Commission on Corrections on the death of 22-year-old Richard Vandemark in the Ulster County jail last April. Vandemark hanged himself... Read more
Apr. 1, 2010
Sally Moon in Olive got some great photos yesterday of water spilling over the Ashokan dam.
Apr. 1, 2010
From Twitter:
@NKFF NKFF on hiatus until 2011... With a new baby on the way, we've decided to hold off on NKFF 2010 and give the grant money back. Let's rest :)
Alas! We were looking forward to NKFF. Here's hoping the crew won't be too busy with... Read more
Apr. 1, 2010
After subtracting 100 votes from its total election tally yesterday, Walton was forced to rename its election's winners and losers:
Morley's total was originally announced as 165 votes, winning him one of the two available seats, but the actual number... Read more
Mar. 31, 2010
Coxsackie village residents should boil their tap water for the next three days. A water main broke last night and has been repaired, the Daily Mail reports.
Mar. 31, 2010
An investigation by Wine Spectator's Ben O'Donnell into the legislative fight over whether to allow wine in supermarkets reveals that lobbyists and politicians are making out like bandits:
In an in-depth investigation, Wine Spectator has discovered that... Read more
Mar. 30, 2010
Democratic Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen has some nice words for Republican state senator John Bonacic, for his efforts to get the DEP to do a better job of flood management around NYC's Ashokan reservoir upstate.
Our State Senator, John Bonacic... Read more