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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 12:10 pm
Above: Carts full of holiday shopping were abandoned in the checkout line at Walmart on Saturday, Dec. 6 after shoppers evacuated the building after a "threat call." Contributed photo.
Several stores in the town of Ulster shopping center on Route 9W near... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 - 11:52 am
An armed suspect wearing a Spider-Man mask robbed a Smoker's Choice convenience store in Walton the day after Thanksgiving, according to the New York State Police.
A police press release states that the store was robbed at 6:44 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28 by... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - 9:49 pm
Update, 10:00 p.m.: According to a statement issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office late Tuesday evening, commercial traffic will be banned from I-84 in New York State as of 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Long tandem vehicles will also be banned from parts of the New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 - 5:21 pm
In a curt decision issued on Tuesday, Nov. 18, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that the Maetreum of Cybele, a monastic branch of Paganism with a headquarters in the Catskills, is entitled to a religious property tax exemption from the Greene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 - 1:43 pm
Above: A paddler heads down to the shore of the Pepacton Reservoir during the 2014 boating season. Photo via the NYC DEP's Flickr page.
In the three years since the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) opened four of its upstate... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - 1:02 pm
Former congressional hopeful Sean Eldridge has drawn the ire of the Catskill Watershed Corporation (CWC) with his comments about economic development in the New York City watershed.
Eldridge, a Democrat, lost the race for New York State's 19th... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 - 12:23 pm
A man wearing a ski mask and a blue hoodie has the residents of Schoharie County nervous this week after he allegedly invaded a home on Route 30 early on Saturday, Nov. 1.
Social media lit up with gossip on Saturday as drivers along Route 30 saw police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 - 11:29 pm
Republican Congressman Chris Gibson kept his seat in New York's 19th Congressional District with large leads over Democratic challenger Sean Eldridge on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
In a statement emailed to the press at 10:42 p.m. on election night, Eldridge... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014 - 3:00 pm
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, voters go to the polls to decide who will win the race for New York's 19th Congressional District: incumbent Republican Congressman Chris Gibson or Democratic challenger Sean Eldridge.
Gibson, who was first elected in 2010, once... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 - 4:28 pm
Photos and video by Julia Reischel.
State bigwigs and local officials doused the massive new concrete spillway of the Gilboa Dam with buckets of reservoir water on Friday, Oct. 31 to celebrate the completion of the dam's $138 million rehabilitation... Read more
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