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By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 31, 2010 - 8:13 pm
In honor of the holiday, Bovina historian Ray LaFever looks all the way back to the Civil War:
Bovina lost eleven young men in the actual war: Sinclair Burns, Andrew G. Chisholm, Solomon Coulter, Robert Dysert, James C. Elliott, Thomas Elliott, William T... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 31, 2010 - 6:04 pm
Are we living in a "dollar-store economy?" That's what the Times Herald-Record asked yesterday in a story about the opening of new dollar stores in Livingston Manor, Florida and Wallkill. The answer is a resounding yes:
While more upscale retailers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 29, 2010 - 11:17 am
Summer may not officially be here until June 21, but Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of the season in the Catskills. In the town of Andes, on Route 28 in Delaware County, three new business ventures are debuting this weekend. We stopped in at... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 5:54 pm
Kingston's a tough town -- and with a massive federal crackdown on gang activity in Newburgh just wrapping up, locals are worried it could get tougher. But civic-minded residents are determined to fight back.
Yesterday, Kingston's energetic new... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 11:57 am
The legendary 80s band is playing a benefit for the Woodstock Day School at the Bearsville Theater tonight. In anticipation, the Daily Freeman interviewed Chris Stein, the band's guitarist:
The band’s connection to Bearsville comes from Stein, who lives... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 11:30 am
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn just ruled that 100,000 state workers can't be furloughed and will get their raises, budget issues be damned. From the AP.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 10:45 am
Featured in the NYT's real estate section this week: A converted church in Stamford, Delaware County, on the market for $168,000.
The sellers, an interior designer and a firefighter, spent 12 years of weekends transforming this once dilapidated 1850s... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 10:23 am
You know it's a political hot potato when legislators stay up all night. The New York State Assembly passed Gov. Paterson's keep-the-state-parks-open bill around 3am last night, according to WPTZ. The Senate is reportedly considering the bill right now.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 12:24 am
In the Catskills this weekend and have no idea how to celebrate Memorial Day? Here's our picks of the best of the weekend's parading, feasting, and memorializing.
Tannersville Rubber Duck Race & Crazy Boat Race
First, hundreds of rubber duckies go... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 27, 2010 - 6:21 pm
John A. Sanzone Sr. allegedly used false mortgage documents to give himself a loan while he ran Catskill Mortgage in Stamford, NY. Via WBGH in Binghamton.
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