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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 2:21 pm
Earlier this week, it was gazebos. Now, the governing elite of Kingston have moved on to another civic spat -- this one over an illegal pile of brush that a city alderman had removed from his curb last week.
Once again, the quotes are priceless, as... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 - 2:01 pm
The Mountain Eagle has the depressing story:
Members of the Greater Stamford Area Chamber of Commerce learned there would be no ‘Music on the Mountain’ event this summer and heard a presentation by Kees Trappenburg about the Junior Golf Program at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 6:21 pm
It was all in a day's work for David Campbell of Monticello, reports the Times Herald-Record:
David Campbell, 32, called Village Judge Josephine Finn a racial slur several times while being arraigned at noon, police say, and kicked a patrol car after he... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 4:31 pm
The BP oil spill is making ordinary folks pretty apocalyptic. Today, Kingston resident Peter Meurer wrote the Daily Freeman a letter with his theory of how the catastrophe could be the end of the world:
My grandson had a thought on this: There is a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 3:00 pm
If you felt the earth shaking this afternoon, that was the 5.5 quake that hit Ottawa around 1:45. As far south as Kingston, NY, they were evacuating buildings:
In Kingston, firefighters ordered the evacuation of buildings on Wall Street, the uptown... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 11:19 am
Ever since its inception back in 1993, National Trails Day has been held on the first Saturday in June. If you have never heard of National Trails Day, it is the only nationwide celebration of trails and was inspired by President Ronald Reagan's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 9:51 am
In today's New York Times: A profile of an emerging vegetable venture that links Schoharie County with the South Bronx, a neighborhood the article described as "the poorest congressional district east of the Mississippi."
The project is Corbin Hill Road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 10:06 am
Constance McMillen's hometown in Itawamba County, Mississippi may not have wanted her at their party, but Woodstock thinks she's a rock star. McMillen, who made national headlines earlier this year when her school canceled their prom rather than let her... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 9:15 am
Gas drilling opponents are lining up in front of the Sullivan County Government Building at 10am today, for a three-day walk from Monticello to Delhi in support of a state moratorium on drilling in the Marcellus shale. Here's the details on the walk,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 8:46 am
In last December's issue of Harper's magazine, reporter David Cargill fired a shot across the bow of the $1-billion-plus effort to clean the Hudson River of cancer-causing PCBs by dredging: The General Electric Superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never... Read more
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