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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014 - 6:33 pm
The VW Parts building owned by infamous Fleischmanns junkyard operator William Hrazanek caught fire around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 26. The former junkyard, located at 717 Wagner Avenue, is in the process of being purchased with federal disaster funds as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 - 10:39 am
A short section of Route 42 in the town of Lexington is scheduled to be closed on Tuesday while a private bridge is installed, according to the New York State Department of Transportation (DOT).
Route 42 will be closed from Spruceton Road to Beech Ridge... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: A mudslide on Route 10 in the Schoharie County town of Sharon on August 21, 2014. Photo via the Schoharie County Fire Wire Facebook page.
Heavy rains caused flooding and a mudslide in the town of Sharon in Schoharie County Thursday night,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 - 4:37 pm
A head-on collision between two cars on Cat Hollow Road in the rural Delaware County town of Colchester claimed the life of a Nineveh man, and injured four Bronx residents, on Thursday morning.
The crash occurred around 10 am on Thursday, August 21, when... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 - 12:05 pm
Lighting struck the bell tower of the United Methodist Church in Fleischmanns at 8:45 a.m. on August 21, blasting off siding and blowing out six windows.
"Somebody said it sounded like a bomb went off," said Adrian Todd, the pastor of the church, which is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 - 3:25 pm
Above: Muddy fun at Prattsville's MudFest. Photo via MudFest's Facebook page.
In August 2011, tons of mud from Tropical Storm Irene's massive flooding swept through the town of Prattsville. Now every August, the town commemorates the disaster with a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 - 1:31 pm
Above: A promo photo for the Pig Mountain Pig Roast and Veggie Fest in Narrowsburg on Saturday, August 23. Via the Pig Mountain website.
Main Street Narrowsburg plays host this Saturday to an all-out celebration of local food, the Pig Mountain Pig Roast... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 - 11:15 am
A Schoharie County 911 dispatcher guided an expectant father, Rudy de Vries, through the first steps of delivering a baby at home on Wednesday, August 20, after his wife, Amber, went into labor too quickly to make it to the hospital.
911 dispatcher Becky... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 - 3:50 pm
Above: Catskill Mountain Railroad equipment repairing a portion of the track on the old Delaware & Ulster corridor last week. Photo by John Marino and posted on the CMRR's Facebook page.
In the long-running battle of rails versus trails in Ulster... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 - 9:19 am
A new restaurant that serves an eclectic mix of Turkish specialities and American diner classics is bringing together a Sufi Muslim community and its rural Catskills neighbors.
“More and more we are seeing less and less prejudice,” said café manager Erdem... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 - 10:01 am
About 13,250 Central Hudson customers in Greene and Albany counties were left in the dark late Monday night, after a downed wire cut power to a large area.
The outage occurred around 9:30 pm on Monday night, and was restored by around 1 am Tuesday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 - 2:45 pm
Above: A video of the blaze that killed a three-year-old boy in Liberty on Sunday, August 17. Source: Vos Iz Neias News.
A three-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy from Brooklyn died in a fire in a Liberty bungalow colony last night, according to the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 - 12:10 pm
Above: "Volks-Deutsche Jungen in U.S.A.," a film by the Deutsche-Amerikanische Berufsgemeinschaft (DAB) about a DAB Nazi summer camp for boys in Windham in 1937.
In the summer of 1937, the Greene County town of Windham was home to a Nazi summer camp,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 - 8:38 am
Above: A sky lantern, a paper-and-bamboo balloon with a wax fuel source at the bottom, being released in England in 2010. Photo by Flickr user Keith Williamson.
Revelers at summer gatherings in the Catskills are sending flaming airborne balloons over... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 - 11:30 am
Above: State assembly member Aileen Gunther poses with an American flag made out of bagels made by the Monticello Bagel Bakery. Photo via the Monticello Bagel Bakery's Facebook page.
Head to the self-proclaimed "Bagel Capital" -- the village of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 - 10:49 am
Above: Video footage of Monticello mayor Gordon Jenkins ranting and throwing a clock while in a booking room on a drunk driving arrest in November 2013. (Be warned, there's a lot of profanity.)
The Sullivan County village of Monticello has a reputation... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 - 1:41 pm
Above: Campaign photos for Robert Blain and Michelle Blain. Source: The Town of Prattsville Republican Party Facebook page.
Robert J. Blain, who had served as a justice of the Town of Prattsville Court since 1987, resigned abruptly in June, as did his... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 - 3:46 pm
John, who goes by the name Catskills Photography on Flickr, snapped this shot of Sunday's extra-large moon in Monticello and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
A supermoon occurs when the full moon is closest to earth in its orbit. The most... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 - 2:55 pm
Above: A post from the Albany office of the National Weather Service's Facebook page today.
Parts of the Catskills could get "torrential" rainfall of as much to 1 to 2 inches per hour tonight, according to the National Weather Service.
The eastern... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 - 10:49 am
Dive teams, firefighters, and first responders mobbed the Esopus Creek in the Ulster County village of Phoenicia on Sunday afternoon in what turned out to be a wild goose chase.
A report of an injured person in the creek on August 10 prompted a massive... Read more
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