Hugh Reynolds: Moments of truth await NY-19 hopefuls
If the Democratic candidates challenge the signatures of rivals, it could narrow the field, which increases the number of votes needed to win. What to do?
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Ed Ford, Kingston’s iconic historian, turns 100
Born on his father’s farm in Highland six days before Germany’s Red Baron was shot down, Edwin Millard Ford, Kingston’s iconic historian, will mark his centenary with a gathering of some 125 invited guests at White Eagle Hall on April 15.
Hugh Reynolds: Saving Captain Ryan
Pat Ryan steals a march on the crowded Democratic field by holding a “town hall” event as a candidate. But it’s still early, and the gun issue will play far differently outside of Ulster in November.
Hugh Reynolds: College recruiting
SUNY Ulster’s latest southern foray has ended more with a sigh than a bang. College officials say there wasn’t enough interest in the Marlborough area to justify establishing a small satellite at a former grade school.
Hugh Reynolds: About Sleeping Dogs
Remember that famous Sherlock Holmes clue, “The dog didn’t bark?” It applies to a recent proposal to designate the Office of Economic Development, currently part of the Planning Department, as a separate department.
Catskill Mountain Railroad ridership down slightly; is freight in the future?
Williams Lumber hopes to ship up to 100 carloads of lumber a year out of the former Lowe’s Plumbing on Smith Avenue, which it owns, next to CSX tracks in Midtown as “an economic alternative to the high cost of shipping by truck.”
Hugh Reynolds: Erin Collier won’t let ‘those boys’ beat her
The all-male congressional six-pack’s worst nightmare came roaring out of Cooperstown this week with Erin Collier’s announcement she’s entering the overcrowded Democratic fray for Congress.
Erin Collier, saying more women need to be in Congress, enters race as Democrat
A total of seven Democratic candidates and one independent are currently vying for the opportunity to face first-term Republican John Faso of Kinderhook in the Nov. 6 general election. Collier, who will be 34 next week, said she was raised on a fifth-generation family farm near Cooperstown. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in agricultural economics and took a master’s degree in that field from Michigan State University. She works for the US Agency for International Development.
Hugh Reynolds: Can Marcus Molinaro seriously challenge Andrew Cuomo?
It seems state Republicans are beating the drums (again) for Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro. They want him to run for governor against Andrew Cuomo. No knock on Molinaro, but I sense desperation among Republicans.
Legends and myths still surround Prohibition-era gangster Legs Diamond
The story goes something like this: Legs Diamond, a mid-level bootlegger, somehow managed to gain control of Kington’s Barmann Brewery and ship its product via rail and truck to the various speakeasies he operated in this area and New York. More intriguing was that was Legs, after paying off willing city officials, ran subterranean beer lines along sewers to the scores of bars then operating (illegally) in the city.