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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2011 - 3:20 pm
Image: A graphic from the Open Space Institute's recent report on development in the Catskills, showing towns with the most privately-owned open space in darker brown.
A new report from the Open Space Institute, a land acquisition and conservation group... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2011 - 2:44 pm
Design of the proposed Woodstock Commons housing project. Image from the RUPCO website.
A lawsuit against the Town of Woodstock and its planning board over plans to build an affordable housing project has been dismissed on a technicality.
The case, filed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2011 - 12:13 pm
On Monday, labor organizers throughout the Hudson Valley and the Catskills demonstrated in droves in Newburgh to show their solidarity with unions around the country on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination.
The gathering, which reportedly... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2011 - 9:43 am
The State Police are reporting that a woman driving on the Thruway through New Paltz on Monday was drunk with her 12-year-old daughter in the car.
According to a press release, Daphine Vinson of Huntington was stopped after police noticed her "erratic"... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011 - 5:12 pm
Since the March 19 fire that claimed every one of its thousands of books, the Phoenicia Library has staged a remarkable comeback. A week later, a temporary library was opened in the former Maverick Health Center, and offers of help and donations were... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 - 1:33 pm
Our friend and web guru Adam Gaffin, who runs the news website Universal Hub in Boston, sent us this link to an interview with Rebecca Griffin, the director of Boston's North End Music and Performing Arts Center. It turns out that Griffin, a local Boston... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 - 11:37 am
Andes architect Marlys Hann is featured in Chronogram Magazine this week as the designer of a Catskills retreat dubbed the "skylight house." Hann's assignment, according to the story, was to open up a "cramped and dark" hunting cabin. So she installed a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 1:46 pm
We just received this message from the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Sheriff Paul J. Van Blarcum reports, with deep sadness and regret, the untimely passing of Ulster County Sheriff's Office member Detective Sergeant Drue Lynch, age 47 of Plattekill... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 10:12 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 2, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Tomorrow, Sarah Lee Guthrie (yes, of those Guthries) and her husband and musical partner Johnny Irion are performing at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia. The little train station should be a nice intimate backdrop for their sound: a rich,... Read more
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