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By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 20, 2013 - 2:19 pm
Above: A mini-documentary on the wedding of William Warren and Renard Latour, shot by local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione of Vecc Videography. New York State law barred William Warren and Renard Latour from marrying for almost four decades.  But when the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 17, 2013 - 4:31 pm
A man whose body was found floating in the Delaware River near Tusten on Saturday, May 4 has been identified from dental records. Police say the man, whose body was found by canoeists, is 56-year-old James Estes of Nicholson, PA. Estes was reported... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 15, 2013 - 11:24 am
Longtime Prattsville resident Donald Olson -- a Prattsville town justice, former clerk of the Greene County Legislature, and deeply involved member of the close-knit Prattsville community -- was killed in a head-on collision on Route 23 in Windham on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 13, 2013 - 9:52 am
Above: The Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band performs "Ashokan Farewell" at the Folk Alley studio in 2011. You know the tune. The first two notes give it away. By the third note, it has you already transfixed in some haunting memory, whether you've... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 8, 2013 - 10:29 am
In a five-way race for two open seats on the New Paltz Village Board on Tuesday, voters elected Tom Rocco and Rebecca Rotzler. Rocco got 335 votes and Rotzler 252, giving them a comfortable margin over Don Kerr (180), Jonathan Cohen (124) and Radi Serdah... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 7, 2013 - 11:33 am
Opening day at the New York Safety Track: A track day for the members of the Driving Force Club. Photo from NYST's Facebook page. When is a racetrack not a racetrack? When it's a "motorcycle training facility" -- a phrase used to describe a new 2.1-mile... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 6, 2013 - 9:24 am
David Krajicek holds up living proof of a fine day on the river. Photo by Dan Plummer; used with permission. Looks like local crime-writing bluesman David Krajicek and river advocate Dan Plummer had a lucky day on the East Branch near Hancock over the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 6, 2013 - 8:14 am
A body was pulled from the Delaware River on Saturday afternoon, the Times Herald-Record reports. Around 3pm, the paper reports, state police and local officials responded to a call of a body floating in the water, and recovered the body from the river... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, May. 5, 2013 - 10:24 pm
A hiker was seriously injured in a fall on the Tanbark Trail in Phoenicia on Sunday afternoon.  Around 3pm Sunday, Shandaken police and first responders received a call that a hiker had fallen down a cliff roughly 40 feet high, according to Shandaken... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 3, 2013 - 5:36 pm
Photo by Julia Reischel. The banner says it all: The CVS on Bridge Street in Margaretville is once again open for business. The pharmacy reopened on Friday, with a gloriously sunny May day to mark the occasion. It's been almost two years after the Irene... Read more

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