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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 10, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: A video report from NBC New York about the death of three people on Route 17 on Sept. 7.
A couple and their future son-in-law died in a fatal rollover crash on Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating on Labor Day, according to a New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015 - 1:48 pm
The place where 14-year-old Jordyn Engler drowned on the Esopus Creek on Saturday, Sept. 5 was near a notorious local river hazard. But that didn’t stop a Catskills tubing company from dropping her off at an abandoned tubing launch nearby.
The hazard, a... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015 - 7:18 am
Above: Photo by Doug Kerr, via Flickr.
After more than twenty months of debate, interviews and political maneuvering, Schoharie County has hired its first administrator to oversee the day to day operations of its county government.
At a meeting on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 3, 2015 - 3:08 pm
A man and a woman were found dead in an apartment in the Delaware County town of Delhi on Wednesday, Sept, 2, according to a press release from Delhi Police Chief Mike Mills.
Thirty-four-year-old Christopher M. Bailey and 25-year-old Krista L. Hess were... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2015 - 11:51 am
Peggy Brueckner lives near the Peekamoose Blue Hole, an icy Catskills pool that is recognized as one of the best swimming holes in the country. Her family has visited the hidden spot for 50 years. But this summer, due to hordes of tourists and the tons of... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2015 - 9:50 am
Above: The vacant A.L. Kellogg School in Treadwell may become the home of the Watershed Agricultural Council. Photo by Robert Cairns.
The long-vacant A.L. Kellogg Elementary School building in the Delaware County hamlet of Treadwell could soon become the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 - 9:38 am
Above: Jeff Senterman accepts his new post as the executive director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on Saturday, Aug. 29. Photo via the Catskill Center's Instagram feed.
Jeff Senterman, the former Catskills program director of... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 4:23 pm
In the aftermath of two state audits that criticized Delaware County's procurement and surplus property disposal policies, the county's board of supervisors adopted an update of those policies at its meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
A procurement policy was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 3:16 pm
Above: A motorcyclist was seriously injured on Sunday in a chain-reaction crash in front of the driveway to Snyder's Tavern in West Shokan. Image via Google Street View.
Three motorcycles were involved in a crash near Snyder's Tavern on Route 28A in West... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 4:31 pm
It's been a horrible week for car crashes in the Catskills, with three separate collisions in the region resulting in fatalities since Sunday.
A crash killed four people around noon in the Ulster County village of Saugerties on Wednesday, Aug. 26,... Read more
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