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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 4:36 pm
The Daily Mail investigates local sentiment about outdoor wood boilers -- in light of the Department of Environmental Conservation's opinion that they're bad for the environment and for human health -- and finds that wood boiler dealers are hurting:
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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 4:02 pm
When Kathleen Aitken's son Joe was attacked by Jesse Horos with a baseball bat at a Claryville party last summer, a series of improbable events led to his survival. The first miracle? Cell phone service in an impossible place:
Kathy says that the miracles... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 1:50 pm
In an editorial printed in the Times-Union today, Catskill Heritage Alliance chairman Richard Schaedle points out an interesting coincidence: the cost of keeping the state parks open this summer is exactly the same as the price that developer Dean Gitter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 4:04 pm
In May, students hailing from Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night HS trucked up to Greene County to plant trees along the once-degraded Batavia Kill with kids from Jefferson Central and Gilboa-Conesville Schools. Our columnist Aaron Bennett was there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
Protestations by Kingston superintendent Gerard Gretzinger notwithstanding, it looks like Kingston High School has a cockroach problem. Though it could be worse, the Freeman reports.
Cory Kassler, a senior public health sanitarian for the Ulster County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:34 pm
Hundreds of landowners stood in the Albany rain yesterday to demand an immediate start to gas drilling in New York State. Here's a roundup of the coverage of the rally. (The Central New York Land Coalition has its own collection of links here.) If you... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:36 am
In the New York Post this week: "The Catskills from A to Z." (Lucky for them Hunter's putting in that zipline this year, eh?)
Looks like they strained a little for the X -- but nice job, Post!
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:22 am
Once a year, the students of Delaware Academy in Delhi drive their tractors to school in a show of rural pride. This morning, a line of tractors arrived at school in time to do a ceremonial lap around the lawn before classes started. One of them, pictured... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 11:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the writer behind the New York Times's "Our Towns" column, reports from the Walton Theatre this week, where documentary filmmaker Josh Fox showed his anti-drilling film "Gasland" this Monday. (Too bad we missed Applebome at the screening... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 4:00 pm
We must stress that it's preliminary, but what you see above is the gist of the new Catskills-specific design that will soon be perched atop road signs throughout Catskill Park. It's the result of months of brainstorming by a crack team of town... Read more
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