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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 - 9:28 am
The New York state Senate had a few surprises up its sleeve last night, and for once, they weren't about Pedro Espada.
Not only did the senators finally pass the long overdue state budget, they then quickly debated and passed Senate Bill 8129B, which bans... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 5:38 pm
The Albany press corps has just witnessed official proof that the NY Senate's atrocious antics are registering on a cosmic level. Rick Karlin of the Capitol Confidential blog describes how an Act of God interrupted the state legislature's budget... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 3:25 pm
New York state Senate majority leader Pedro Espada might have topped himself. After declaring yesterday that he would boycott today's special Senate session on the long-overdue state budget, he's reportedly heading to Albany right now, and bringing his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Image: Summer Landscape, 1869, Julie Hart Beers
Artists, if you're seeking to toil in obscurity and ensure that your work lies neglected for centuries, here's how to do it: 1. Be a woman. 2. Paint trees.
Such has been the fate of the women of the Hudson... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 11:10 am
On Sunday, a human skeleton was found in the woods in the town of Thompson, near Monticello, the Times Herald-Record reports today. Disturbingly, this is the second human skeleton found in the area this year:
It was the second human skeleton discovered in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 - 11:17 am
Today's Daily Star takes up a vexing problem: The county fair is getting old. Really old.
Many of the directors of the county fairs in Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie counties and the town fair in Afton have served for years. There are between... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 - 10:19 am
A woman stranded in the middle of Morningside Lake yesterday in Fallsburg was in the middle of being rescued by a park staffer when both were struck by lighting. Both are reportedly in critical condition -- according to the Times Herald-Record, lifeguards... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 29, 2010 - 3:41 pm
Daily Freeman reporter Jay Braman Jr. writes that the dream of making Route. 28 through Delaware and Ulster counties into a revenue-generating scenic byway might be dying. The idea, championed by a group called the Central Catskills Collaborative, sounded... Read more
By Simona David on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 2:32 pm
Bob Ackershoek, the owner of Cassie's Cafe in Roxbury, in his role as the co-host of a '70s rock show on WIOX.
Right before Labor Day, a corner of Delaware County will be getting its very own radio station.
WIOX, which will be heard on 91.3 FM, will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 12:22 pm
It's turning into an awful week for teen drivers in the Catskills.
First, there was the fatal ATV accident on in Palenville on Monday that killed 15-year-old Michael White and 17-year-old Jennifer O'Brien.
Then yesterday, 17-year-old Natalia Gorgen was... Read more
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