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By Ellen Verni on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 1:13 pm
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. The column below first ran in December 2007. You can get more of Verni on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 9:34 am
The Ulster County Sheriff's Department has arrested 16-year-old Thomas J. Langjan of Kerhonkson and an unnamed 14-year-old accomplice for having "subjected a 16-year-old female to unwelcome sexual contact." The press release is below:
Thomas J. Langjan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 7:26 pm
In Roscoe tomorrow: Flyfishers, filmmakers, and other folks are meeting at Roscoe Central School to watch Gasland and talk about fracking. The event starts at noon, and is open to the public. From an announcement posted on our local-business news channel... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 4:41 pm
The New York Times' House Tour columns can be quite cheeky. In an interview with a Saugerties second-home owner Jeff Blum on Thursday, reporter Bethany Lyttle (who weekends in Roxbury herself), got a pretty fabulous quote:
In 2002 I was living in a loft... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 1:34 pm
The Times Herald-Record has a pitch-perfect news story about a women who was evacuated from her home next to the fast-rising Neversink River during Wednesday's flood. Turns out, Donna Dunnett thinks the whole fuss was unnecessary:
Still, Dunnett insisted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Woodstock was hopping last night with revelers prowling for cookies, wine, and Christmas lights at its holiday open house. We were there and stumbled upon Santa Claus, who was handing out poems and candy canes at FreeStyle Realty. For more photos from the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 9:25 am
A Catskill man who hurt his ankles while working as a corrections officer in Coxsackie was collecting workers compensation insurance for the injury while also working as a part-time police officer in Cairo, the New York State Insurance Department reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 11:22 am
Image: A bill of sale for a slave named Peet, dated October 17, 1785, to Samuel Smith of Walkill, NY. From Wikimedia Commons.
Today and tomorrow, historians, scholars, teachers, and activists are converging on Lake Placid, NY for a two-day conference on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010 - 10:12 am
Rick Karlin, a Capitol Bureau correspondent for the Albany Times Union writes this morning that at least three Belleayre employees might be laid off solely because the last four digits of their social security numbers are too low:
[C]an simply having the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 3:57 pm
Schoharie County Emergency Services is reporting (via their Facebook wall) that some of the county's 911 lines are experiencing technical difficulty.
If you have an emergency and dial 911 and do not reach a person, please hang up and dial the non-... Read more
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