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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 10:06 am
In the wake of a merger with Community Bank System, a banking company based near Syracuse, the Oneonta-based Wilber National Bank has announced they're making 63 layoffs. The Daily Star reports:
Monday's announcement "slammed" the dedicated employees of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 8:23 am
Amazing story in the Freeman today about Antonio Flores-Lobos, the editor of the Daily Freeman's Spanish publication Las Noticias, who stopped a suicidal woman on the Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge on Friday just as she was about to jump.
The story is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:29 pm
For most of us, the arrival of the first buds of early spring is a welcome sign that winter's on its way out. For an ecologist, every unfolding blossom is a data point. By making careful records of when each plant begins to bloom, scientists hope to paint... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 1:14 pm
The Daily Star, which was one of the sponsors of Saturday's Regional Spelling Bee, reports that 12-year-old Tatum Kiff from Sidney Central School won a trip to Washington, DC. She'll compete against other kids from across the country in the Scripps... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 10:52 am
According to a press release issued by the State Police, Dayton Harper of Port Ewen was arrested last week after reportedly hurting a 5-year-old child on two occasions. Harper allegedly struck the child and, in a separate incident, threw a toy at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 12:26 pm
With a glut of vacation houses standing empty most of the year, break-ins are a perennial problem in the Catskills and Hudson Valley. But this one kinda takes the cake: A scrum of (mostly) teenagers allegedly occupied a house on Beaverkill Road in Stone... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 5:13 pm
With the help of two antiques dealers, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office is reporting that it has arrested Joseph Hunter and Quinn Gaffney for allegedly stealing antiques on Partition Street in Saugerties and then selling them 100 yards away on Main... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 4:35 pm
Martha Frankel, a Boiceville-based writer, artist and provocateur, shared some intimate memories of the late Elizabeth Taylor with the Daily Freeman this week. Frankel recalls that she met Taylor while strenuously trying not to offend her by making eye... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 11:17 am
The Times Union's Capitol Confidential blog reports that scores of protesters chanted "No Fracking Way" in the War Room of the Capitol building in Albany yesterday, in a show of force that probably reached Governor Andrew Cuomo's ears in the next room... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 - 8:54 am
Victor Whitman at the Times Herald-Record reports this morning that a onetime casino investor who sold land in Bridgeville to the Seneca Nation for an ill-fated casino project wants both his land back and $15 million in damages. Charles Petri of 3D... Read more
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