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Bee losses increase concerns about crops

It’s a been a rough spring for bees in NY and elsewhere, and that could mean honey shortages, or at least a delay in the honey season. The latest buzz comes from the annual winter loss survey released this week. Preliminary results indicate...

Cuomo: Not enough votes (yet) for Women’s Reproductive Health Act

At a press conference today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to reporters that he doesn’t have the votes in the Senate to pass his Women’s Reproductive Health Act. But he says he’s still trying. Reporter Karen Dewitt asked the...

Meet your New York State Dairy Princess

There was a time, decades ago now, when the county dairy princess was one of us. Most people lived or worked on dairy farms. Our daughters aspired to be the princess, or know her, or be in her court. Today most of us are three or four generations...

‘Milk Not Jails’ proposes alternative recipe for Upstate economy

New York has always bred odd bedfellows, the result of one state containing both one of the biggest, richest cities in the world and some of the tiniest, rural towns. Some 40 years ago, state leaders who gave birth to the Rockefeller drug laws...

State dirt slinging and 5 other New York farm stories you must read

New York has its state flower, its state bird, and its state song (although I think it should be this), so why not a state soil? Supporters of an effort to make Black Dirt – down in onion-land in Orange County – the official state soil...

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NYS English and Math Regents Results

by Karen DeWitt

Dec 24, 2001 — The news is mixed on the results of the Regents English and Math tests taken by New York's high school seniors. Go to full article

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