Barry Foster of Livingston Manor, who runs a baseball card shop, chats with Carolin Walter-Brown inside her home store, Willow and Brown on Main Street in Livingston Manor.Times Herald-Record/MICHELE HASKELL

LIVINGSTON MANOR — Boarded-up buildings have turned into vibrant mom-and-pop shops. Crumbling roadsides have been replaced by smooth sidewalks lined with streetlights, cherry trees and park benches. The shadowy corners where drug dealers loitered and sold cocaine are now well lit and safe for pedestrians.

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By M. P. DUNLEAVEY

SOMETIME in the last couple of months, the price of gasoline crossed a line. It’s not just that gas is now hovering around the dreaded $4 a gallon. It’s that an unconscious expense has become a painfully conscious one.

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Sullivan lawmakers get a lesson in gas drilling

RIVER REPORTER May 15, 2008
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http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/08-05-15/news-lawmakers.html

“We’ve got to slow this train down.”

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Catskill Park master plan revised

ALBANY – The Catskill Park State Land Master Plan, first developed in 1985, has been revised and the state wants public comment on it.

The plan classifies Forest Preserve lands in the park based on their physical character and capacity to accommodate human use based on four land classifications – wilderness, wild forest, intensive use and administration.

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Book highlights best the region has to offer in hiking

By Ralph Ferrusi • Hiking columnist • May 15, 2008

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http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/may/15/515_FlyFishing/