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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 - 1:51 pm
A Boiceville sculptor has just returned from Baltimore, where he helped install his “Stargate”—a massive metalwork crafted mostly of upcycled vintage auto parts—in a prime location at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
Left: Heller next to... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 - 2:42 pm
Above: A promo for Haunted Huguenot Street, New Paltz's annual spookfest, featuring "Mrs. Gertrude Deyo-Brodhead’s infamous Murder Mystery parties at the Deyo House." Tours, spirit readings and ghost stories all weekend.
It’s the darkening evening of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 - 10:57 am
A stolen Pennsylvania car that was found abandoned in the small Catskills town of Bovina caused a massive police search for possible connections to fugitive Eric Matthew Frein on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Police say that there is no confirmed link to Frein, and... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 - 1:52 pm
It took Michael and Amelia Hegeman eight years to find the perfect spot to open Zephyr, their new farm-to-table restaurant. The first time the couple set eyes on the 100-year-old building in the Ulster County hamlet of Pine Hill that is now Zephyr's home... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 - 12:32 pm
Above: Andes Central School's tiny graduating class of 2014. Photo by Joe Damone of Joe Damone Photography.
A long-stalled conversation about sharing school services is being revived at a meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the Delaware County village of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 - 2:41 pm
Above: Photo by Daniel Hollister of ThatZombiePhoto.com.
Everyone knows that you run faster when you're being pursued by ravenous zombies. And there will be zombies galore at the Blenheim-Gilboa Visitor's Center in Blenheim this Saturday to scare 5K... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 - 3:18 pm
Two SUNY Delhi students were caught while attempting to use counterfeit $10 bills to buy tire rims from an off-duty New York State Police trooper on Thursday, Oct. 16, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
Left: Brian Colon and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 - 3:11 pm
Photographer Caleb Jacobus took these photographs of the blazing fall colors in the Schoharie Valley this morning, Friday, Oct. 17.
He was hiking on the cliffs in the town of Middleburgh, looking out towards Vroman's Nose and the Catskills. Below, there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 - 1:47 pm
Up here in the Catskills, in the heart of New York City's vast rural watershed, it's impossible to forget that one lives in the middle of the city's water supply. The city's huge reservoirs dominate the landscape. Watershed affairs dominate local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 - 5:38 pm
Photo by Flickr user Timothy Allen.
On Monday, Oct. 13, the citizens of the Delaware County town of Walton rose up in opposition to a proposed law that would have capped the height of grass and weeds in the town to ten inches, according to the Walton... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 - 6:25 pm
Above: First responders and witnesses on the scene of a one-car crash on Margaretville's Main Street. Photo by Lissa Harris.
An erratic driver in an Elantra coupe jumped the curb, took out a streetlight and hit the Gottfried Municipal Building at 773... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 - 5:18 pm
Above: A trailer for I Believe in Unicorns, a film that was partially shot in the Hudson Valley. It is a featured film at this year's Woodstock Film Festival.
The annual Woodstock Film Festival kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 15, bringing big names -- actors... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 - 4:35 pm
Above: Rains will move across New York on Wednesday night, Oct. 15, according to a radar image posted on NWS Binghamton's Facebook page.
Flooding on smaller tributaries and streams may occur in Delaware and Sullivan counties in the western Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 - 4:39 pm
Last weekend's O+ Festival filled the city of Kingston with artists, musicians, and healthcare professionals, who swapped checkups for performances.
Some of the creativity was permanent: Singer-songwriter Jack Dishel and graffiti collective Vor138 left a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 - 11:53 am
National news outlets like Bloomberg News and Newsweek are watching the tiny Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg, which is being rocked by controversy over the arrival of a large community of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews.
On Sept. 30, the village held... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:40 pm
Volunteers and New York State Department of Conservation staff picked up tires and filled over a dozen large garbage bags with trash during a litter clean-up event in Greene County's Kaaterskill Clove on Sunday, Oct. 5, according to a press release from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:02 pm
Left: Ethan-Jon Sackett, in a photo published with his obituary.
A 22-year-old from Delhi died on Monday, Sept 29 in a motorcycle accident on County Road 10 in the Delaware County town of Meredith, according to the Daily Star.
Ethan-Jon Sackett was a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Columbus Day Weekend is coming up, and the Catskills are making the most of summer's last hurrah.
If you're a Catskills local, you've been living in a slow-mo fireworks display for a couple of weeks now, as maples, beeches, birches and oaks erupt in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 12:40 pm
The Greenheart Farmstand is selling pumpkins and produce this week at the former Bank of America building on Route 28 in the Ulster County hamlet of Shokan, according to its customers and to Drew Boggess, the chair of Olive Planning Board.
The farmstand... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:39 pm
The New York State Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection will be repairing a 3-mile stretch of Route 990V in Gilboa for three weeks in October, according to a press release issued by the DEP last week.... Read more
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