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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 1:44 pm
From Celeste Katz at the Daily News, quoting an email from Jay Jacobs, the chairman of the state Democratic Party:
Today, the New York State Democratic Committee initiated legal proceedings to cancel Senator Pedro Espada Jr.’s affiliation as a Democrat.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 10:23 am
... Jamal Colon, from Monticello. He sustained a bullet wound during his Independence Day celebration, and to hear the Times Herald-Record tell is, his methods were almost guaranteed to endanger life and limb:
Jamal Colon, 31, told police he placed a box... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Looks like the entire state of New York -- and most of the Eastern seaboard -- is going to be extra-smoggy tomorrow. Check out AIRNow's map of current air-quality alerts in the U.S.
If you have asthma or lung disease, please take it easy out there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:52 am
With the last Kutsher on the verge of retirement, the resort that inspired "Dirty Dancing" was poised to follow its Borscht Belt brethren into a long twilight of decrepitude. But in a lucky break for the 103-year-old hotel, caterer Mickey Montal and... Read more
By Joe Harris on Saturday, Jul. 3, 2010 - 8:48 am
Every great new invention has got a frumpy sister who is increasingly losing her youthfulness, her appeal, and her hair. Easily one of the greatest innovations of the last century is texting, which has revolutionized the way all people are heard and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 3:08 pm
A bill instituting no-fault divorce in New York State, which cleared the state Senate last month, passed the Assembly yesterday with wide margins. When Gov. Paterson signs it -- which he's promised to do -- New York will join the 49 other states that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 2:16 pm
Kingston residents are furious today over a shooting around 8pm yesterday evening on Clinton Avenue, whose perpetrator is still unknown and at-large.* From the Daily Freeman:
Neighbors said they heard four shots and then saw a man lying in front of 84... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 9:52 am
Apparently you can't put the word "abortion" on the side of a giant fiberglass horse in the town of Saugerties. Even in teeny-tiny type. The Freeman's Ivan Lajara reports:
West Shokan writer Martha Frankel informed me on Wednesday night a fiberglass horse... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 2, 2010 - 9:11 am
Reporter Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record promised yesterday that Ulster County denizens would want to pick up the paper this morning -- and he wasn't wrong. Today's big local story is a ripping yarn about three anti-government nuts who allegedly... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 10:35 pm
Site of accident, on Route 28 near Canada Hollow Road between Margaretville and Andes.
A section of Route 28 was shut down briefly earlier in the evening after an accident just outside of Margaretville. Unofficial reports from a grapevine of police-... Read more
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