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By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 11:37 am
We're a little late on this one, but that's because we had no idea that New York's horse-betting industry had such an innovative way of bringing off-track betting to customers who can't make it to the casino.
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 3, 2010 - 11:34 am
The Albany Project has an account of the recent New York State Democratic Rural Conference on Saturday. It's weirdly fixated on describing the contents of the buffet table, but there's some meat: Writer Adama Brown critiques the AG candidates' plans for... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:36 pm
It's May Day, otherwise known as Beltane, which good students of the Goddess know means it's time to have one hell of a party.
Mike Madsen is celebrating Beltane on his blog, the Kingston Progressive:
With a high density of immigrants from Ireland and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, May. 1, 2010 - 1:23 pm
Not bad for a tiny little town that wants to revitalize its movie theater. From an email that the Collective sent out this morning:
We did it! Out of 362 projects across the United States competing for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant, the Rosendale... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:48 pm
Normally the month of April, or “mud season,” as it is affectionately known, is relatively quiet in the high peaks region. The ski centers close down, many of the restaurant owners and innkeepers shut their doors for a few weeks to seek out warmer and... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 7:44 pm
From today's Daily Freeman:
In handing down the sentence, Ulster County Judge Donald Williams told Latourette "my only regret is I cannot do more to punish you."
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 6:40 pm
Call it builder's remorse. Many years ago, the town of Ashland hopelessly contaminated its underground water supply, and the town's few hundred residents have been paying the price ever since. At last, relief is in sight, though it's going to be expensive... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Blue Mtn. Photos found a hidden waterfall in Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, last week and snapped this photo of it, which he posted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool. He says that it wasn't easy to get the shot:
I think it's just over the County line... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Fifty grand from the Watershed Agricultural Council (via its Pure Catskills program) and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is going to 15 local businesses to fund things like local soup at Good Cheap Food in Delhi and livestock processing at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 1:56 pm
If he runs for re-election, state senator John Bonacic will face at least two challengers this fall, in a race that is shaping up to be a referendum on natural-gas drilling in the region (which Bonacic emphatically supports).
Sullivan County legislator... Read more
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