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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:17 am
21-year-old Daniel Hughes of Highland was killed yesterday in a one-car accident on Route 9W in Esopus.
Mid-Hudson News reports that Hughes was the son of an Ulster County sheriff's deputy.
A press release from the New York State Police:
State Police at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 - 11:37 pm
Ulster County sheriff's deputies arrested 39-year-old Kingston resident Christoforos Christoforou on second-degree assault and other charges this afternoon, after being called to investigate a report of a woman screaming for help at the Lake Motel in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 3:41 pm
The good folks at the Kingston Library are on Twitter -- and today, they tweeted about a cryptic little article found in the vaults of the Kingston Daily Freeman, circa 1912.
The headline: "An Odd Accident." The rest you can read above.
Shavertown, as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 - 11:34 am
Photo: Jacob Heymann Butcher Shop, 345 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Taken in 1938 by WPA photographer Berenice Abbott. Source: Flickr.
Local farmer Shannon Hayes, who raises grass-fed pigs, cows, sheep and chickens at Sap Bush Hollow Farm in West Fulton,... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 - 11:04 am
The late Vincent, a formerly-feral Phoenicia cat who adopted columnist Tom Rinaldo when he moved into the neighborhood.
Vincent arrived at our new property pretty much the same time we did. At least it seems that way now looking back. When we moved into... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 - 2:56 pm
54-year-old Emma Maxwell was arrested last week, on charges of stealing over $100,000 from the Breakabeen/North Blenheim Presbyterian Church, where she was the treasurer. Several news outlets report that Maxwell turned herself in.
The Times-Union reports... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 - 9:28 am
A tragic accident claimed the life of a Hunter Mountain employee on the mountain yesterday morning: 41-year-old Brian Mattice of Gilboa.
Police say Mattice slipped on ice and fell down a steep slope while working with snow-making equipment, and died on... Read more
By wateradmin on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 - 8:19 pm
Above: A Flickr slideshow of photos from Catskills FarmLink landowners and farmers. The first photo is of Michelle Premura, a landowner who has listed 13 acres between Delhi and Stamford on the FarmLink website. Click on individual photos to see the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 - 1:55 pm
CBS Channel 6 reports that a construction rig tipped over at the Gilboa Dam this morning, injuring a worker.
A statement via email from Michael Saucier, spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, which owns and operates the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 - 1:28 pm
Today, a wide swath of the Internet and web tech community is joining a digital protest of a pair of bills currently under consideration by Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate.
The bills... Read more
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