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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:33 pm
The New York State Police are reporting that two Hancock men, 45-year-old John T. Gurnick and 31-year-old James P. Santicola, were arrested last Thursday in Hancock for allegedly posessing crack cocaine, an illegal handgun, marijuana, marijuana... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 3:22 pm
Who could have guessed, when the little Delaware County town of Sidney was being painted as a hotbed of bigotry on Comedy Central and MSNBC a couple of months ago, that the town would end up being nationally singled out as an object lesson on how to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:46 pm
A press release issued today by the Delaware Sheriff's Department reports that the county responded to two car accidents on Friday. The release:
December 10, 2010
Sheriff's Deputies investigated a 2 car property damage accident on State 10 in the hamlet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 - 2:19 pm
The Poughkeepsie Journal, the Times Herald-Record, and the Daily Freeman have the distressing news that rock/folk legend Levon Helm missed his own gig on Saturday night because he was hospitalized with a cold.
The Journal interviewed Helm's manager,... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 10:34 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context about this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 10:07 am
New York State's environmental advocates aren't getting everything they wanted for Christmas, but they did just get a nice present from Governor David Paterson yesterday: an executive order banning all horizontal drilling with hydrofracking in the state... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 - 9:54 am
Daily Freeman correspondent Jay Braman Jr. reports that after this season's back-to-back floods in Phoenicia, plans to prevent the Esopus from flooding is finally getting some traction:
State Sen. John Bonacic discussed flooding problems on Tuesday with... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 - 3:58 pm
There is a truly excellent feature story in the Associated Press about Sidney today.
It's a compassionate, lengthy article by award-winning feature writer Helen O'Neill, who specializes in nuanced, well-reported portraits of towns and people struggling... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 - 9:41 am
Gov. David Paterson has until Monday to either sign or veto the gas drilling moratorium bill passed by the Legislature. (We wrote earlier, based on information in a story by the Elmira Star-Gazette, that the deadline was today. But the Times-Union reports... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 9:28 pm
Lisa Barrows, the Delaware County DWI Coordinator, in front of her office door in Delhi. Photo by Julia Reischel.
This story has been updated with new information as of 12:30pm, 12/10/10. Scroll to the bottom to read the update.
Unlikely as it sounds,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Another arrest has been made in the Case of the Food Stamp Millionaires: 71-year old Anup Virk, the father of the man who owns the convenience store at the center of an alleged million-dollar scheme to buy food stamps from their customers at half price,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 - 9:55 am
The Delaware River Basin Commission has finally issued its long-awaited draft regulations for the development of gas drilling within the river's watershed. To read the regs, which will be subject to public comment from now until March, see below:
Draft... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 3:00 pm
This just in from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Department: 38-year-old Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School bus driver Heather M. Steidle was arrested yesterday on charges of child endangerment. The press release reads:
Subject arrested on 3 counts... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Hunter is mourning the loss of local poet and humorist Dennis Lucas Jr., son of the town's current supervisor, who died last Monday at the age of 42. WGXC's Paul Smart has a tribute, which hints at a battle with substance abuse:
“He was a talented guy but... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 2:06 pm
In the Times-Union today is a juicy story just in time for ski season: Local ski centers Windham Mountain and Hunter Mountain are on the offensive against state-run Belleayre Mountain, arguing that the Highmount ski center is undercutting their business... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 - 8:08 am
A Greene County birdwatcher noticed a massive migration of snow geese flying over New Baltimore last night, according to Prospect Park and regional bird sightings, a Brooklyn bird-watching blog. The blog quotes an email sent by Richard Guthrie, a Greene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 7:45 pm
Yesterday was a day for the history books: the last day that the Daily Freeman, published since 1871, rolled off its Kingston presses:
As of today, the paper has shut down its local press and moved its printing to Troy, New York, a change that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 12:53 pm
Since its passage by the New York State Assembly last week, a bill that would impose a moratorium on hydrofracking for natural gas until May has been sitting on Gov. David Paterson's desk, awaiting his signature. Paterson has til Saturday to decide... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 12:52 pm
Snow accumulation in Davenport, Delaware County. Photo by Mike Wilkie.
Yup, it's snowing. And it will keep snowing today and tomorrow throughout the northern counties of the Catskills, according to multiple warnings and forecasts from the National... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 - 10:01 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record had a thoughtful article on Sunday about what will happen to local municipalities when New York City shuts down part of the Delaware Aqueduct for a whole year in 2018.
While most towns in the Catskills don't drink... Read more
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