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Vol. 1, # 22 | June 4, 2007

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Meat of the matter
Fleisher’s bucks the agri-business trend BY LYNN WOODS

Two years ago, Fleisher’s Grass-Fed & Organic Meats was struggling. It had opened in 2004 on a side street in uptown Kingston and business was slow. Owners Jessica and Joshua Applestone considered closing their doors, but then a new, central location on Wall Street became available. Just prior to Thanksgiving, they made the move. The new location made all the difference. “It rocked immediately,” Jessica said. “There was a 300 percent increase in business.”

 

 

 
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Inside a metal shed at the city of Kingston sewage plant, the noise of vibrating machines is deafening. Heat wafts off pipes, a large boiler and a silver cylinder wrapped in insulation. The smell is nearly unbearable.

 

 

 

The horse trailers have started rumbling through the streets of Saugerties. They are headed for a grassy complex at the edge of town where crowds of mostly teenaged girls and women in jodhpurs, and their horses, gather to prove over wooden barriers that Pegasus was no fluke and horses can fly.

 

 

 

Fiber-optic cables and strawberry vines may not be a traditional pairing, but more and more savvy farmers are integrating online innovations into their businesses.

 

 

 

William Janeway, director of government relations for The Nature Conservancy in New York state, has been appointed as the new regional director for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 3 office, which serves Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, Sullivan and Ulster counties.

 

 

 

Goodradio.TV L.L.C. has acquired several radio stations in Dutchess and Ulster counties from Clear Channel Communications Inc., part of its $450 million purchase of nearly 200 Clear Channel stations in 36 markets.

 

 

 

To stem the loss of agricultural lands to development, help increase farmers’ profits and promote local, healthful food products, Hudson Valley Fresh, a nonprofit founded by Sam Simon and former Assemblyman Patrick Manning two years ago, is collecting milk from 10 dairy farmers in Dutchess, Columbia and Ulster counties and reselling it to 50 Hudson Valley and New York City supermarkets and food stores.

 

 

 

Disaster unemployment insurance, available for those so impacted through the New York State Department of Labor at (888) 209-8124 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., will end on June 5, 2007. Residents should let agency representatives know they are calling in response to the April storm.

 

 

 

Every year, lawyers from Jackson Lewis L.L.P. offer tips to dozens of Hudson Valley companies on navigating human resource issues.

 

 

 

Despite decades of promises and false starts, longtime Catskills casino advocate Steve Vegliante believes the latest Sullivan County gaming proposal has the best shot of any seeing fruition.

 

 

 

The 2007 United States Military Academy graduation attracted 20,000 spectators, most of whom missed the dispute going on outside the storied campus at West Point.

 
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