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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2011 - 8:51 am
A homemade fly dryer, invented by Paul Cowell, of Paul's Angling Journal. Photo used with permission.
Happy fishing season opener day! Despite that sunny-sounding news, today doesn't feel very springy, and the New York Department of Environmental... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2011 - 2:33 pm
Former Daily Star reporter Patricia Breakey, who was among several editorial staffers laid off last month by the newspaper. Photo courtesy of Breakey; used with permission.
On February 11, the Oneonta Daily Star – the only daily print newspaper that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 4:36 pm
The Times-Union reports:
Investigators are examining the death of a 20-year-old State University of New York at Cobleskill student found in an apartment on Tuesday, village police said.
Police were called to the Hammerstone Village Apartments at 5:21 p.m... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:49 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A Seaford man drove into a creek in Hamden and flipped his car, after failing to stop at an intersection. Here's the press release:
On 3/19/2011 Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies investigated a one... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 3:28 pm
Kingston Citizens reports that Brooklyn-on-the-Hudson our fair city to the east is dipping a toe into the waters of social media, and has gotten a Twitter account.
Good news! The city of Kingston is finally working to access social media outlets to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 12:30 pm
We're debuting something new today: Facebook comments. Instead of our old system, which let people choose between anonymous commenting and registering for a username on our site, we're now asking commenters to use their Facebook identities to post... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 10:15 am
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced yesterday that she had been named chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security. From the press release (via the Catskill Chronicle):
Senator Gillibrand will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2011 - 8:45 am
Lee Hoiby, a reclusive Catskills-loving composer who adapted one of Tennessee Williams' plays into an opera, died yesterday, according to the Times Herald-Record:
Lee Hoiby, a Sullivan County-based composer whose operas were performed everywhere from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Sullivan County farmer Bob Franklin has been making headlines lately -- for expanding his dairy operation at a time when many dairy farmers are in dire straits. (And for getting a visit from Congressman Maurice Hinchey, seen above admiring one of Franklin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 12:32 pm
The Daily Mail has the details:
A Hunter-Tannersville Central School District school bus maintenance supervisor was charged with having sexual relations with an underage student.
Timothy B. Tait, 52, of Tannersville had a court appearance adjourned... Read more
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