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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:01 am
View Larger MapAbove: A map of Bovina Center. A standoff between police and an armed man is ongoing tonight at a house on County Highway 5.
The subject of a manhunt in the Delaware County town of Bovina is surrounded in a house on County Highway 5, also... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 - 4:48 pm
Photo of Charlie Sanborn, by Nicholas Piatek Photography.
The Catskills are two-wheel paradise, especially if you're not afraid of a few hills. Some people move here just because they love the riding; others try it out on a whim and fall in love with the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 - 8:01 am
A flash flood watch is in effect today for eastern New York and western New England, including Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties. The flash flood watch, issued around 3am by the National Weather Service in Albany, is in effect until 6pm.
Local flood... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 4:49 pm
The principal of the Phoenicia Elementary School, who was removed from her post without explanation in February, has been reinstated by the Onteora School District.
A letter was sent to parents in the Onteora district today by superintendent Phyllis... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 11:01 am
Above: The bar at Tavern 214, ready for business at last. Photo from Tavern 214's Facebook page.
This Saturday, August 10, Phoenicians and other interested parties will at last get to check out Tavern 214, a brand new gastropub opening in what was once... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Above: Protesters at a fundraiser for local Republican Congressman Chris Gibson on Tuesday, at which House Speaker John Boehner was the featured guest. Detail from a larger image posted on Facebook by Citizens Action of New York, whose members took part... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:32 pm
A crew of employees from the Sportsman's Alamo Cantina gets Davy Crockett settled into his new home at Mystery Spot Antiques, next door to the Cantina on Phoenicia's Main Street. Photo from the Mystery Spot's Facebook page.
There were plenty of weighty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 - 11:54 am
Above: The three top finishers in the men's pro category take the podium on Sunday at Tour of the Catskills, a three-day pro/am cycling race that ranges over some of the Catskills' most grueling road terrain in Greene and Ulster Counties. Left to right:... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Above: Photo of a page from an 1803 shape note tunebook, The Art Of Singing by Andrew Law. Photo by Flickr user Kelly Taylor; published under Creative Commons license.
The shape note revival is coming to Roxbury's newly renovated Kirkside Park barn in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 11:36 am
Kingston welcomed the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign yesterday, as a supporting contingent of Dakota Unity Riders rode down Broadway and a flotilla of paddlers arrived at the Rondout waterfront, accompanied by a replica of a Dutch fur-trading ship called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:58 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:53 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Above: Johanna and Robert Titus, local Ice Age experts and authors. Photo courtesy of the Tituses.
The craggy, jaggy landscapes we know and love as the Catskills have been inspiring the athletic and artistic for centuries. But did you ever wonder how they... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 - 10:53 am
Meet Nemo, a 730-pound pig currently being treated at Cornell University for B-cell lymphoma. According to a recent television news report from CNY Central, Nemo may be the first of his species to be treated for lymphoma; Cornell vets are using a catheter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2013 - 5:01 pm
Above: Jane Axamethy of the Bake House in Kauneonga Lake gives fresh bread to Spencer Cutler of the neighboring Fat Lady Cafe. Photo by Jason Dole.
Do you run a Catskills restaurant, cafe, bakery, food truck, BBQ joint, or other place to get great local... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2013 - 9:58 am
Phoenicia's larger-than-life Davy Crockett gets a bath, in preparation for his big move. On August 17, the statue -- which has stood for decades on Phoenicia's Main Street, in front of the Sportsman's Alamo Cantina -- is moving down the street to his new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013 - 4:42 pm
The fate of casinos in New York State must still be decided at the ballot box this November -- but the effort to build casinos in upstate New York took a step forward today, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a piece of legislation that will authorize four "... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013 - 3:57 pm
This week, Ulster County lets its country roots show at the annual county fair, an old-timey festival featuring carnival rides, livestock shows, country music and more.
The Ulster County Fair opens at 4pm today -- Tuesday -- at the fairground in New... Read more
By Jenna Scherer on Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013 - 10:10 am
Fest-goers listen to opera under the stars at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.
There are plenty of small towns in America that have come to be defined by the festivals they host; but it’s not every place that can say that attendance... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 29, 2013 - 3:40 pm
Chop wood, carry weeds: Practitioners at work at the garden of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, which grows food for the monastery's kitchen and flowers for the altar. For more photos of the monastery garden at the peak of the summer season,... Read more
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