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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 11:49 am
Above: A Flickr slideshow of photographs of Clarence Schmidt and his art, taken in 1970 and 1971 by David E. Johnson. All rights reserved.
This week's Woodstock Times has an incredible story about local outsider artist Clarence Schmidt, written by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 10:59 am
Marjorie D. BunnA traffic stop led to something more on Wednesday when the State Police arrested three people in Greene County for marijuana possession. 33-year-old Marjorie D. Bunn was one of the two people stopped in the car, which was found to contain... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 2:50 pm
Although the once-a-year hipster-fest All Tomorrow's Parties ended on Sunday, videos from our correspondent to the event, Boston music writer Barry Thompson, are still trickling in. Above is Iggy and The Stooges playing "I Wanna be your Dog." Below, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 11:45 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that those tentative plans to shutter the Daily Freeman's local printing press and mailroom are looking a lot less tentative:
The Daily Freeman newspaper has filed the required state and federal notices that the paper... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 12:30 am
A crowd of several hundred protesters packed the lawn of Courthouse Square in Delhi yesterday to protest the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, which has been supportive of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling also known as fracking.
One by one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2010 - 4:27 pm
The Daily Mail has an excellent story about a lawsuit that was filed last week by the victim of July's monkey attack at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast in Catskill. The case is amazing. It involves an American-dream-living and beauty-parlor-owning... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2010 - 10:31 am
This just in from the State Police press office: An errant trash bag led to an arrest last Friday. This is why one should take those "no dumping" signs seriously:
On September 3, 2010, Trooper Elinor Pruiksma out of SP Margaretville arrested Joseph... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2010 - 9:56 am
A garage on Berme Road in Ellenville was destroyed in an accidental fire yesterday, taking owner Joe Smith's six uninsured vintage cars with it. From the Times Herald-Record:
Harrison Cherry was changing his buddy's fuel pump in the 4,800-square-foot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 - 8:42 pm
Recently, New York State timber industry professionals met at Belleayre, at an emergency summit convened in response to the discovery of the dreaded Emerald Ash Borer in Ulster and Greene counties. Buried at the bottom of today's Daily Mail report on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 - 5:00 pm
A crash involving multiple motorcycles and a car killed 40-year-old Mark S. Mackay yesterday afternoon near Minnewaska State Park, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. The Times Herald-Record has the story
The sheriff's office said there were... Read more
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