Government
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 - 11:18 am
John Duda, the chairman of the the group -- the Central Catskills Collaborative -- that is attempting to give Rte. 28 scenic byway status, is steamed about recent recent reports in the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain News that towns along the road... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 10:01 am
The Daily Mail reports that a crew repairing a water main break yesterday hit a gas line, which led to an evacuation of Coxsackie's downtown:
Local resident Antonio D'Arcangelis said he was sitting at his window and saw the backhoe strike the pipeline.
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 9:57 am
You can't read the whole story online, but the one sentence from this Catskills Mountain News article that is visible is a good one:
An Arkville Fire Department tanker truck was seriously damaged on Sunday evening, July 11 while it was being used by one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:35 pm
We got a tip last night that a very meticulous graffiti artist has vandalized the sidewalk on the edge of the village of Andes along Rte. 28, right next to the Andes Town Hall. When we went to take a look for ourselves, we found not one but three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 4:18 pm
A local boy named Brett Joshpe is one of the lawyers involved in challenging plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. This week, the Mountain Eagle interviewed Joshpe, who graduated from high school in Stamford in 1998. In the past... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:51 am
The mostly-empty Binnekill stream in Margaretville, photographed in winter 2009 by Flickr user Dougtone.
Yesterday, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a new lawsuit has been filed in a years-long battle between property owner Lauren Davis and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:15 pm
A driver who didn't notice that his garbage truck's rear gate was up left a Godzilla-like trail of destruction across New Paltz this morning. Among the casualties: a bunch of power lines and a lot of trash. From the Times Herald-Record.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 12:08 pm
So far, there's a website and plans for billboards to go up on Route 17 in Sullivan county, according to the Sullivan County Democrat:
Yesterday, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy, Gasland the Movie, and EarthJustice jointly... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 1:40 pm
This week, the EPA dropped a last-minute bombshell on a planned meeting to discuss the risks of hydraulic fracturing: Three days before the meeting, they moved it from Binghamton to Syracuse.
But it seems the last-minute venue change didn't deter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 - 10:57 am
WTEN reports on last night's town board meeting in Cobleskill, where supervisor Tom Murray said (again) that he's determined to stay put despite repeated calls for his resignation.
"I've done nothing wrong," Murray said.
Once again, here are the words... Read more
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