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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 5:13 pm
Bruce BakerFor the third and final installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Bruce Baker, a marketing consultant who teaches farm and food business people how... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 - 1:34 pm
In upstate New York, March is dreary season: a month made of mud, sleet, damp, and forlorn hopes for spring. In Brazil, March is Carnaval: riotous color, parades, wild costumes, and the infectious beat of the samba. After months of winter, it hardly seems... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Martin ButtsFor the second installment in our series of interviews with experts who will speak at this Sunday's Farm to Market Conference in Liberty, we talked with Martin Butts, a Syracuse-based local food advocate and consultant for small food producers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2011 - 7:40 am
The Shandaken Police are reporting that Shane T. Hyland, a 21-year-old Margaretville man, was the second assailant in the Friday attack on the residents of an apartment above the Railroad Pizza store on Rte. 28.
Hyland was arrested after being released... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 3:49 pm
Deb KavakosThis year's Farm to Market Conference, a get-together sponsored by Pure Catskills and being held this Sunday in Liberty, is an annual conclave of growers, distributors, marketers, and buyers from all points in the food chain. We attended last... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 - 12:38 pm
Photo of fire-damaged Phoenicia Library, shared on a local Facebook group by Denise Owens.
The Phoenicia Library may be down, but it isn't out. The librarians announced today that the library will be open starting Saturday in a new temporary location, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 4:39 pm
Photo: Some of the heavy-duty equipment deployed in the perpetual fight to keep Laura Zakotiria-Smith's Wawarsing neighborhood above water. From a photo album on Zakotiria-Smith's Facebook wall.
This just in: New York State lawmakers have agreed to use a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 1:30 pm
According to an article in the Patriot News last Thursday, the creekfront property that belongs to the family of anti-fracking crusader and filmmaker Josh Fox has been cited by Pennsylvania regulators for environmental violations. Fox is the director of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 11:59 am
The Daily Mail is reporting that New York State Police were led on a car chase on Rte. 23 in Greene County in the wee hours of Sunday morning by an 18-year-old Cairo man.
According to the Mail's story, Angelo Joseph Agosto, came away with a number of drug... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 - 10:15 am
The New York State Police are reporting that officers found 58 marijuana plants in a Neversink home on Thursday and charged Duane A. Sausville, the resident, with operating the growing operation.
The report states that Sausville, who allegedly first gave... Read more