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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 4:10 pm
Sidney Center has water contamination problems. And Dawn Rivers Baker, former candidate for supervisor of Sidney, is angry about it.
Did you know that a sizable chunk of the population of the Town of Sidney does not have access to clean drinking water?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 10:37 am
The town of Ellenville in Ulster County. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg.
Earlier this month, the Daily Yonder, the blog about rural issues, published an interview with three experts on small towns: Bart Finzel, Jane Leonard, and Dave Engstrom. While... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 9:36 am
An early morning fire at a house in Neversink turned into a pot bust, the State Police report.
When emergency responders arrived at the home around 3am on Wednesday morning, they allegedly found six scorched marijuana plants and five pounds of processed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Pine Hill resident Richard Treitner. Contributed photo.
Richard Treitner, an artist, poet, and self-described shaman who lives in the small hamlet of Pine Hill on the western edge of Ulster County, came home from Thanksgiving this year to find that his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 - 10:08 am
Paul Smart at WGXC has written a tribute to Willow poet Janine Pommy Vega, who died last Thursday.
I met Vega just once, almost thirty years ago, when I was a third grader in Mrs. Wells' class at Phoenicia Elementary School. She visited our class to do a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Back in October, Mike Bemis was relieved of his job leading Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency without much of an official explanation. (Unofficially, thanks to an evesdropping Daily Freeman reporter, a few of the complaints made against Bemis came... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 10:16 am
Three cheers for Hazel Akerley, a cafeteria monitor who works at Liberty Middle School. In her time working at the school, she has saved two students from choking on their food by performing well-timed Heimlich maneuvers, according to a news brief in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 6:04 pm
The Times Herald-Record is reporting that a 59-year-old man who was living in a nursing home in Swan Lake was found dead outside on Sunday morning:
The frozen body of a man who was a resident of the New Swan Lake Adult Home was found dead early Sunday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Until February 11, Budget Travel Magazine is taking votes on which of twenty small American towns is the coolest. In the running: artsy, funky Phoenicia.
Two and a half hours north of New York City, this tiny town in the Catskill Mountains is a smaller... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 - 10:22 am
Remember that guy who stole the stuffed animal from the Toys for Tots box in the Town of Ulster? After the State Police blasted a photo of him out to the media, he turned himself in, the Daily Freeman reports.
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