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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 - 8:30 pm
In recent weeks, two different companies have publicly discussed plans for natural gas pipelines that would cross through the Leatherstocking region and northern Catskills in upstate New York. The prospect of a major new natural gas pipeline in the region... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 - 11:46 am
A fire early this morning destroyed the Slice of Athens pizza parlor and pub, at 29 South Washington Street in the Greene County village of Athens.
The fire also destroyed some phone lines, as well as a fiberoptic cable that supplies cable television and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 - 3:30 pm
Across northern Schoharie County, mysterious BB-gun shooters are taking aim at cars and trucks, and no windshield is safe.
Despite the January arrest of four men in connection with the incidents, the BB shootings go on, the Times Journal reports:
State... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - 4:00 pm
The Onteora Board of Education is scheduled to vote on one of three possible reconfiguration plans for the district on February 28. Two of the proposed plans call for the closing of the Phoenicia Elementary School, either with clustering of the elementary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 4:09 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that Sullivan County police are looking for a man who robbed the First National Bank of Jeffersonville on Route 55 in Eldred around 10:20 this morning.
A description of the man:
He is described as being about 40-50 years of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 - 11:03 am
An early-morning one-car accident on Route 208 in Shawangunk left 18-year-old passenger Faryn Presutti of Wallkill with a broken leg and possible internal injuries. Driver Alysia Quick of New Windsor, also 18, has been arrested on charges of DWI,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 - 6:41 pm
If the Foxhall Ambulatory Surgical Center did not provide abortions, there would be no reason for it ever to have been built. But the Daily Freeman reports that the clinic currently has no abortion provider, and is unable to find a replacement.
Foxhall... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 4:07 pm
Illustration for the seed pack of heirloom tomato variety Cosmonaut Volkov. Art by cartoonist and graphic artist Will Sweeney, for the Hudson Valley Seed Library's "Art Pack" line of artist-designed seed packs.
This Friday, the Horticultural Society of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 - 11:25 am
Photo by Flickr user Roger Karlsson. Published under Creative Commons license.
It's a familiar story in rural upstate New York: A small-town school, once bustling and full of life, is slowly being drained of its students, forcing a community to make... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 - 1:42 pm
In a radio broadcast aired today, Dave Lucas, WAMC's Hudson Valley bureau chief, checked in with some of the people he spoke to shortly after Irene's floods raged across upstate New York.
Lucas found that life isn't quite back to normal yet for flooded-... Read more
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