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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 11:13 am
On Monday night, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's plan to buy more private land in the upstate watershed met a skeptical crowd at a public hearing at SUNY Delhi.
The Land Acquisition Program, as the DEP calls it, is the linchpin... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 - 10:40 am
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that Hurley resident Evan Stauble, who had been missing since July 1, was found dead on Sunday.
Kingston police were the last to see Evan Stauble, walking across the Route 9W bridge that connects Kingston to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:33 pm
Rich Blake, blogging at the hedge-fund-oriented Hedgeworld, begins a critique of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac with a meditation on the repairs he has to do on his Big Indian cabin:
I own a tiny, cottage-style house in Ulster County, New York, in a valley... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 11:05 am
Thanks to state Assemblyman and Attorney General hopeful Richard Brodsky, who has been demanding to know why quasi-public agencies have been handing out bonuses to their executives, we now know that Alexander Mathes, the executive director of the Greene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 10:41 am
Yesterday morning, two men allegedly sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman at the Silver Hollow Cabins in Phoenicia, according to the Daily Freeman. Scariest part? They also are accused of dragging her off into the woods. Desmond McCobb and John Oakley... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 5:19 pm
The Bishopp Family Farm's blog, "The Grass Whisperer," has another sweet tribute to late Schoharie beef farmer David Huse, who died last month in a tractor accident:
A large, skylight provided a mottled scene over my friend’s casket, as I sat in the pew... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 7:59 pm
David Radovanovic, who writes a blog about Saugerties, experienced discrimination against canines firsthand today when he walked his dog Stevie through the Sawyer Motors Car Show. Perturbed, Radovanovic eventually found justice in the form of a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 12:06 pm
A few years shy of a century ago, Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Jewish families from Fleischmanns and Margaretville. Its 1918 incorporation date makes the historic synagogue, located on Wagner Avenue in Fleischmanns, one of the oldest in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 11:47 am
Roxbury's Stone Tavern Farm, which boasts "the darkest skies within 300 miles of New York City," hosted the Amateur Observers' Society of New York's annual Starfest this weekend. In attendance: The Westport Astronomical Society's 25" Obsession telescope,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 2:59 pm
The 24-year-old Hurley man went missing on July 1, and his family's very worried.
Evan Stauble, 24, vanished shortly after his family moved him to Ulster County from New Jersey, where he had been living in a mental health facility. His family said Stauble... Read more
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