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By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 12:22 pm
The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 9:45 am
Despite last weekend's freakish weather, the good people of Fleischmanns still celebrated Cinco de Mayo (on Saturday, May 8) with music and lots of food. Jessica Vecchione was on hand with her video camera to capture the scene:
Cinco De Mayo Celebration... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Empire State Future's Peter B. Fleischer lays out the case against malignant sprawl in yesterday's Albany Times-Union.
Today's upstate sprawl extends considerably farther away from town and city centers; consists of larger homes built on larger lots (many... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
The Daily Star reports:
The shootings occurred at about 10 p.m. Sunday, police said. Daisy Schultz, 65, of Walton, and Richard Utter, 74, of Norwich, died as a result, police said.
Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said he was called and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 10, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Daily Star columnist Rick Brockway encounters a piece of history on a Catskills hike:
The aluminum fuselage and tattered wings are all that remained of the plane. If John Grace had been flying just a few feet higher, he would have missed the wooded peak... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, May. 9, 2010 - 3:09 pm
Surefire way to arouse the righteous ire of a newspaper type, in three easy steps:
1. Commit some mildly salacious act.
2. Make a ham-fisted attempt at covering it up.
3. When caught by a reporter, (a.) beg them not to write a story, and when that doesn't... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 5:39 pm
Cathryn Platine, the Reverend Mother of the Maetreum of Cybele.
Palenville’s loudest property tax critic is a witch.
Cathryn Platine, a towering 60-year-old pagan who can trace her ancestry back to one of the witches who was hung in Salem in 1692, is the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 4:13 pm
Seventeen-year-old Larry Nix-Marks was arrested yesterday while on the way to the BOCES school in Port Ewen, for allegedly bringing a machete to, well, some kind of fight:
Capt. Michael Freer of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Nix-Marks, 17... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 8, 2010 - 3:25 pm
Bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night. At least that's what they say in the thyu-tuh -- and it seems to have been true for the Margaretville Central School's performance of Carousel for their classmates this week, according to beleaguered... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Never mind a movie theatre or a stoplight: The tiny Ulster County town of Denning is too small even to have a town park. That's about to change, thanks to local realtor Jennifer Grimes, who's looking for a few good dirt- and flower-wranglers to help put... Read more
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