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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 2:27 pm
The Mountain Eagle had coverage today of last Thursday's Board of Education meeting in Stamford, which reportedly became an impromptu protest of a popular music teacher's firing from Stamford Central School.
Pamela West-FinkleAccording to the article,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 10:24 am
It's only January, but already summer plans to line the streets of local towns with gaudily-painted sculpture art are afoot.
Most towns will likely remain bound by tradition. In Catskill, as far as we know, the theme of the public scuptures will still be... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 8:57 am
We're getting a short break this morning, but the snow will be back tonight, the National Weather Service warns this morning. It has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Sullivan County and Ulster County starting this evening. For Ulster County:
.TONIGHT... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 2:25 pm
Hand-dyed yarn made by Witch Hazel Feltworks, an Etsy user located in the Catskills.
News broke this week that Etsy.com, an online marketplace that allows craftspeople to sell their wares online directly to customers, is opening a call center in Hudson,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 12:19 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that St. Cabrini -- a home for troubled girls in Esopus, founded in 1890 by St. Frances Cabrini's Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- is looking to build something new on its 600-acre, $4.2 million Hudson waterfront... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 10:13 am
Today's New York Post lambastes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- one of the most powerful figures in New York State politics -- for his law firm's making money off lawsuits against gas-drilling companies in other states, while leading the charge against... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 9:27 am
Timothy BirchallOn Saturday, the State Police arrested 28-year-old Timothy S. Birchall of Ellenville for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in Warwarsing four years ago.
The press release offers few details about the investigation, but... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 8:36 am
It's another day of slow driving and ice covered roads, and like as not your local school is closed. Again.
(For a list a school closings, check out the Daily Freeman, the Times Herald-Record or Fox 23.)
The counties are sending out alerts about the road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 5:02 pm
Image: Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Today on Economix, the New York Times's economics blog, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser stakes out a controversial proposition -- controversial, that is, among non-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Hydraulic fracturing is shaping up to be one of the big dramas of our newly-minted 112th U.S. Congress, and the various actors are already hinting at how the debate will unfold.
President Barack Obama's administration has hinted that gas drilling could... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 10:44 am
Jessica Vecchione shoots videos for the ARC of Delaware County, which provides services and education to people with disabilities. Her latest movie is a sweet look at how Belleayre Mountain hosted some of the ARC's students on the slopes this winter. Best... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 9:55 am
Maybe you should wait a few hours. According to 511NY.org, there have been nine accidents on the Thruway today. Look out especially for these two:
NYS Thruway Authority CAD: accident on I-87 - NYS Thruway northbound between Exit 20 (I-87) - Saugerties (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 9:00 am
Radar image of a storm system moving over the Catskills today, From the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service is warning drivers across the Catskills today that a pernicious mix of snow and sleet will make the roads an ice rink this... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Above: A video montage of clips from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, set to Nina Simone's heartbreaking song, "Why (The King Of Love Is Dead).
Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen has a tribute to King on his blog today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 2:44 pm
Goldenheart Unidiversity, a sustainable-living farm-based organization in Stamford, has made it to second place in this month's Pepsi Refresh grant competition for a $5,000 project about honeybees.
The project's page on the Pepsi Refresh website features... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 10:31 am
A convicted sex offender is free in Franklin, in the wake of legal complications over his sentencing that have yet to be resolved.
In May of 2009, Robert Becker Jr. -- who was convicted earlier that year of the sexual abuse of five students at Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 - 9:19 am
An 18-year-old woman, Erin Clare Malloy-McArdle, died after skiing into a tree on a Windham Mountain ski slope on Saturday morning.
According to a press release from the New York State Police, Mallow-Mcardle, who was a novice skier, skied off the trail... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011 - 9:38 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. To see a full-size version of this cartoon, click here. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context about this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Daniel Torres speaking at an anti-gas-drilling rally in New Paltz last June. Photo by Julia Reischel
Twenty-year-old Daniel Torres, who as a member of the New Paltz Board of Education is the youngest person ever elected in the town, has posted a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Hudson Valley Business posted a story this week about New Paltz's Unison Arts Center, which is struggling to survive in a moribund economy and might soon face the budget knives under new Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Unison, which has been around since the... Read more
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