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Media expert: 'Good story' matters (Poughkeepsie Journal)
The modes used to gather and disseminate information may be changing, but the basic values that are needed to make a news story compelling remain the same.

SUNY New Paltz volleyball team braces for Elite Eight (Poughkeepsie Journal)
The women's volleyball team from the State University of New York at New Paltz is in uncharted territory for a team sport in the college's athletics history.

News media face challenges, MSNBC chief tells local group (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
POUGHKEEPSIE ? Just when an MSNBC honcho thought the 2008 presidential election couldn't get any more interesting, a political unknown with a tart tongue, a winking eye and an Eskimo husband arrived on the scene.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Curator, Mary-Kay Lombino, Receives Fellowship for Curatorial Leadership (Art Daily)
Mary-Kay Lombino, the Emily Hargroves Fisher ?57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. Photo credit: Jennifer Cole/Vassar.

Marines boost Toys for Tots goal (Albany Times Union)
Objectives reflect tough economic times Marine Staff Sgt. Mary Castilla is boosting this year's New York Toys for Tots Operation goal to 200,000 toys. Last year, the Marines collected and distributed more than 67,400 toys. Castilla, who coordinates the New York Toys for Tots operation that covers a 17-county area, said she felt a need to raise the goal in response to tough economic times and ...