Phoenicia's larger-than-life Davy Crockett gets a bath, in preparation for his big move. On August 17, the statue -- which has stood for decades on Phoenicia's Main Street, in front of the Sportsman's Alamo Cantina -- is moving down the street to his new home in front of Mystery Spot Antiques. This being Phoenicia, the community is throwing a party for the occasion, with a Davy Crockett lookalike contest, prizes and a ukelele show.
Happy Wednesday, Catskills. It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day, with highs in the balmy lower 80s across much of the region.
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, a band of kayakers representing over 25 Native American nations, stopped in Catskill yesterday on their 140-mile trip down the Hudson River from Troy to New York City, a trip made in honor of a 400-year-old treaty signed between local Haudenosaunee and Dutch settlers. Tomorrow, they'll be stopping at the Hudson Maritime Museum in Kingston.
FEMA won't pay Schoharie County to rebuild the late Blenheim Covered Bridge, but they might fund a $1.5 million gazebo. (Maybe we could make it bridge-shaped, says the county treasurer.)
Bummed about Cobleskill's no-goats law? Move to Sharon Springs, whose village planning board is working on zoning to allow some livestock in the village.
Departing Freeman publisher Ira Fusfeld pens a farewell column after 43 years at the paper -- though he says he'll still stop by and blog from time to time.
The state Department of Transportation has misspelled a couple of signs near the Pepacton Reservoir in Andes, and screwed up road striping on Route 206 between Walton and Downsville. (Hey, remember when they put the skiing signs on Route 28 upside-down?)
Colchester's police department may be cursed. First the town's only cop loses his police certification and is forced to resign; now the consultant hired to help find a replacement has been suspended from his regular job as chief of police in Broome County's Port Dickinson.
A small seaplane crashed in the woods in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating late on Tuesday afternoon, injuring at least one of its two occupants.
Assemblyman Pete Lopez is taking some heat over donations made to his campaign by a Kingston developer that wants to build a senior housing project in Schoharie.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is looking for federal funds to fight the spread of the emerald ash borer, which threatens to destroy about 7 percent of New York State's trees.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is looking for citizen scientists to count turkeys.
A rabid fox has been found in Bethel.
Two people were arrested by Delhi village police recently for leaving their dogs in hot cars in the parking lot of the Price Chopper. One was on July 17, in the middle of a massive heat wave. C'mon, people.
A young Walton man was badly injured in an ATV accident on Monday -- and on top of that, will probably face charges for giving police a false name at the scene.
A driver in a Callicoon hit-and-run that injured a Long Eddy woman is still at large.
Police are investigating a three-car crash near the Rip Van Winkle bridge that put four people in the hospital Monday.
A sting by the Village of Liberty Police Department to investigate whether local sex offenders were complying with state registration law found that a bunch of them weren't. Ten sex offenders were arrested in the village, the River Reporter reports -- raising the question of just how many law-abiding sex offenders there are in the 4,392-person village.
Another thing Liberty's got a lot of: Mold in its town hall. The town is desperately seeking funding to fix up the roughly 170-year-old Liberty Town Hall, which, like most buildings its age, has a bunch of issues.
The Adirondacks have a lot to learn from the Catskills, writes North Country conservationist Dave Gibson, who's impressed by our local organizations' efforts to promote Catskills tourism and wilderness assets.
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