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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 11:49 am
A 51-year-old Esopus man was arrested in Kingston on Monday night for allegedly showing up drunk to a Stop DWI Impact panel that was being held in the Sheriff's Office building. Law enforcement quickly surmised that if Thomas Ackerman was drunk at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:36 am
From the Poughkeepsie Journal:
In Ulster County, with 99 percent of all districts reporting, Bonacic had 18,702 votes and Sager had 15,879, according to unofficial tallies. Bonacic carried Sullivan County by a margin of 11,545 to 7,541 and led with 100... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:22 am
Sad news today from Windham: longtime local radio personality Guy Patrick Garraghan died last night. From WRIP/97.9's website:
Friends, I’m afraid we must announce very sad news. Around 9:15 PM on Tuesday, November 2, the Mountaintop lost a native son who... Read more
By Gus Murphy on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:07 am
Cartoonist Gus Murphy, longtime veteran of the late Phoenicia Times/Olive Press, weighs in on the changing of the guard. (Or lack thereof.) You can catch more of Murphy's stuff in our digital pages; we don't have him on a regular schedule yet, but we're... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 8:35 am
Republican Chris Gibson took New York's 20th Congressional District by an 12-point margin, unseating Congressman Scott Murphy. The Daily Mail reports:
Chris Gibson, a retired U.S. Army colonel and Ichabod Crane graduate, unseated freshman U.S. Rep. Scott... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 12:07 am
From the Press & Sun Bulletin:
In a race that's garnered national attention, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, was leading Republican George Phillips for the 22nd Congressional District seat, just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.
With 45 percent of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:26 pm
Bravo to Ulster County -- it has a live election tally rolling on their website for all races that is astoundingly easy to use. (At the moment, John Bonacic is leading David Sager in one of the more prominent races.)
The Times Herald-Record is impressed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:11 pm
These days, election results are an instant gratification business. Polls closed just an hour ago, and already the AP, the NYT, and the Washington Post are calling the NY governor's race for Andrew Cuomo. (The Times says that senators Kirsten Gillibrand... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 4:14 pm
What's the scene at your local polling place? We've created a page where you can submit reports and photos about what's going on at the polls around the Catskills region. Click here to check out our 2010 elections page. We hope everything is going... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 1:58 pm
U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey being interviewed on Trailer Talk. Photo contributed by Sabrina Artel.
Sabrina Artel, a local radio host who interviews her guests at her vintage trailer's kitchen table, has a last-minute refresher course on a couple of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 10:54 am
The former site of the Chestnut Woods restaurant in Grahamsville. Could the hamlet get a proper restaurant again? Depends on whether Neversink stays dry, its owner says.
It's been 75 years since a legal libation was sold in the Sullivan County town of... Read more
By Gus Murphy on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 - 12:36 am
Above: A message from cartoonist Gus Murphy, a long-time veteran of the Phoenicia Times and the Olive Press, in honor of your trudge to the polls today. Good luck.
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Last Thursday, the Central Catskills Collaborative re-christened the stretch of Route 28 that runs between Hurley and Andes as the "Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway."
The re-naming is part of the lengthy process of getting the road special recognition as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 10:12 am
A 24-year-old whose name is being withheld died around noon yesterday on the New York Thruway in the town of Catskill after his motorcycle slammed into a guardrail, State Police report. Here's the full press release:
On October 31, 2010 the New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 - 3:47 pm
Local historian Ray LaFever has a post on his blog today about Bovina's most memorable Halloween -- the night, 87 years ago today, when the little Yankeetown schoolhouse mysteriously burned down. (To the great delight of its seven pupils, no doubt.)
A... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 - 12:12 pm
Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was famously fond of the Catskill Mountains -- at least, as a suitably chthonic backdrop in which to set his tales of inbred backwoods mutants and ancient be-tentacled evils from beyond the stars. For instance:
Fear had lurked... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 - 9:55 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Town of Ulster supervisor James Quigley made a tactical error when he decided to call political blogger Jeremy Blaber last weekend. Quigley, who was upset about a post Blaber had written, was furious when he got Blaber's voicemail, and decided to let it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 - 10:45 am
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an analysis of how natural gas is becoming the dominant issue in the election battle between Democratic congressional incumbent Maurice Hinchey and his Republican (and pro-gas-drilling) challenger George Phillips. (The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 4:19 pm
Image from 2009 campaign contribution report for the Chesapeake Energy Corporation FED-PAC.
New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand has avoided taking a stand on natural gas drilling in upstate New York, a hard line to walk when the issue is playing an... Read more
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