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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
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:59 pm
Accusations of racism are flying in Cobleskill this week, after Cobleskill Highway Superintendent Tom Fissell sent out a late-night, town-wide email blasting Mayor Mark Nadeau and Supervisor Tom Murray for using the N-word. Yes, that N-word.
From the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 4:02 pm
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman are reporting that Jeffrey W. Kayes, the driver of a dump truck that sparked an enormous fire on Rte. 9W in the town of Esopus on Tuesday, is facing criminal charges. The Record reports that those charges are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 3:11 pm
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Spring Lake Farm's Ulla Kjarval reflects on American meat-eating, her father's latest cohort of piglets, and the middle ground farms like her family's occupy between animal rights activism and so-called Big Ag.
The cuteness of the piglets are giving me... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 11:34 am
And despite a massive manhunt, he's still at large. From the Daily Freeman:
The Sheriff’s Office said in a prepared statement late Wednesday that it believes the robber set the fire to draw police away from the center of town so that he could pull off the... Read more
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