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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2016 - 10:54 am
Above: Images via the New York State Police.  Four Andes men have been arrested for allegedly breaking into multiple seasonal residences across Delaware County and reportedly stealing more than 100 items over the course of several months, police say.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016 - 4:59 pm
Two Margaretville residents have been arrested for allegedly breaking into Miller's Drug Store in Margaretville and stealing thousands of pain pills last month, police say. Twenty-four-year-old Lucas M. Labumbard and 20-year-old Anna Christina Bubko were... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016 - 8:03 am
Above: Some of the drugs seized in a series of raids last week. Photo via the New York State Police.  A Fallsburg man at the center of Sullivan County's drug distribution network has been arrested along with 26 other people involved in the southern... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Friday, Mar. 11, 2016 - 6:01 pm
Above: The cover of a federal impact statement for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. Opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline are cheering the news that its opening will be delayed at least into next year. Constitution Pipeline Company LLC announced... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Thursday, Mar. 10, 2016 - 7:14 am
Above: Firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a pole barn at the Hubbell Family Farm on Wednesday, March 9. Photo by Rebecca Andre, Mountain Girl Photography and Design. 
 An afternoon fire destroyed a pole barn and injured two firefighters at the... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016 - 11:53 am
Above: Sap buckets in the sun. Photo by Rebecca Andre of Mountain Girl Photography and Design.  “A sap-run is the sweet good-bye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.” - John Burroughs, “Signs and Seasons," 1886 Commercial... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016 - 11:41 am
Above: Maple tapping by Karen Wallace, an entry in the 2016 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest.  Want to make your own maple syrup? Here’s a step-by-step guide to small-scale backyard maple production: Before you get started, here are some tips from the... Read more
By Jessica Porter on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016 - 2:58 pm
Above: A view looking up through Upper Devil's Kitchen. The newly-legal trail towards Platte Clove Road is on the right. Photos by Marty Molitoris/Alpine Endeavors.  An unmarked trail that is the safest way into the Devil’s Kitchen has become public... Read more
By Jane Margolies on Friday, Mar. 4, 2016 - 7:29 pm
Above: The Bovina creamery building. Photo by Stephen O'Grady.  When the Bovina Center Co-op Dairy, better known as the Bovina creamery, was shuttered in 1973, it was a sure sign that the Delaware County town’s best dairying days were over. After seven... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016 - 4:20 pm
Above: "Catskill Snow Storm in October" by Francine Barbet. Image via barbetart.com. Seventy-eight-year-old Francine Barbet was killed in the Greene County town of Jewett on Friday, Feb. 26 when she walked with her dog into the path of an oncoming Jeep... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016 - 8:35 am
Above: Gary Ramsey, a BOCES law enforcement instructor, pitched the advantages of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) to the Delaware County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Photo by Robert Cairns. Delaware County is looking to form a... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016 - 1:48 pm
Above: Aaron Bennett speaks about the East Branch of the Delaware River at a lively forum about outdoor recreation and economic development in the Catskills on Saturday, Feb. 27. Photos by Rebecca Andre. Dozens of Catskills residents attended the second... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 - 10:41 am
Above: An instructor explains techniques for breaching a wall during an interior fire fight during a drill on Saturday at the former Delaware County Countryside Care Center. Firefighters then practiced on walls in the former nursing home. Photos by Robert... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 - 10:30 am
Above: Local fire companies stationed at Smokin Boars BBQ on Route 28 in Phoenicia on Thursday evening, Feb. 25. Photo by Lissa Harris. Smokin Boars BBQ, a new barbecue restaurant that opened three months ago in the Ulster County hamlet of Phoenicia,... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 - 4:38 pm
Above: Blenheim Town Council member Renee Grabowski (right) makes a point to a University of Albany graduate student who is working on the Schoharie Creek trail project. Photo by Timothy Knight. To kick off a yearlong feasibility study about constructing... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 - 11:46 am
  There is minimal flooding at the West Branch of the Delaware River at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Walton this morning. This is a view facing Kraft. Posted by The Walton Reporter on Thursday, February 25, 2016 Above: The Walton fairgrounds... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 - 5:18 pm
Lyza Herman took this shot of last night's full moon, also known as the February "Snow Moon," in the Ulster County hamlet of Pine Hill on Monday, Feb. 22.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 - 4:42 pm
A bus driver for the Gilboa-Conesville Central School was drunk when he drove 13 children home during his afternoon run on Monday, Feb. 22, according to the New York State Police in Cobleskill. Left: Daniel Mowers. Photo via the New York State Police. ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 - 1:38 pm
Above: A poster from New York State's campaign to raise awareness about heroin addiction. New York State passed legislation to fund a heroin addiction awareness and treatment campaign in 2014. Photo via combatheroin.ny.gov.  As a heroin epidemic spreads... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 - 10:44 am
Above: The Gilboa home of Don and Kristine Mowers was destroyed on Feb. 14. Photo via Schoharie County Fire Wire & News. Three Gilboa residents were left homeless after a fire destroyed their home in Schoharie County on the frigid morning of Sunday,... Read more

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