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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 1:34 pm
As a rural area, the Catskills region chronically lacks high-speed, broadband internet access. The region's deep valleys and steep hillsides make cell phone service next to impossible. (In fact, the Times Herald-Record just wrote an entire cover story... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 9:59 am
(Post has been updated -- scroll to bottom for more details.)
In addition to Friday's Grand Gorge car accident, which claimed the life of a Gilboa man, last weekend saw two other fatal accidents: a snowmobile crash in the town of Rochester and a car... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 2:58 pm
On Friday afternoon, 42-year-old Thomas J. Berger of Gilboa was killed in an automobile accident in Grand Gorge. Also injured in the crash was Richard Lewis, an 87-year-old from Gilboa, who is being treated at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 9:03 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 - 4:09 pm
He dallied awhile before coming forward, but Stephen Kirwan, of the hamlet of Purling in the town of Cairo, has finally claimed that $122 million Powerball ticket that everyone was wondering about last month.
Kirwan's identity was revealed at a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 - 1:23 pm
The New York Times ran a column about Palenville's pagans on Wednesday, giving the beleagered Maetreum of Cybele a chance to appeal to a national audience for help in their fight with the town of Catskill over property taxes.
Out Towns columnist Peter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 - 11:10 am
It's been a busy week for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. The big news out of the agency is a brand-new strategic plan that stresses the city's opposition to hydraulic fracturing, its plans for hydropower, and its commitment to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 - 10:30 am
The Times Herald-Record and the New York Times broke the news this week that the federal government almost certainly won't approve ex-governor David Paterson's plan to build a massive casino in Sullivan County.
Both papers obtained a leaked letter from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 - 10:14 am
A Black Hawk helicopter with a minor mechanical problem made an emergency landing by Rte. 9W in New Baltimore yesterday, the Daily Mail reports. It was quite a sight:
If you were driving on Route 9W in New Baltimore just south of the Town Of Coeymans... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 - 10:05 am
Apparently, as opponents of a plan to build a resort casino in Sullivan County gathered at Albany this week, the casinos backers were getting "frowns" and "bad vibrations" in Washington about the plan.
The Times Herald-Record reports that members of the... Read more
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