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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 - 9:32 pm
The Daily Star is reporting that an employee at Covidien's Hobart plant, which manufactures pharmaceuticals, is suspected of smuggling oxycodone powder out of the plant. The employee, who is not named in the Daily Star article, is expected to face federal... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 - 11:38 am
Above: Primitive biathletes gear up at a past Biathlon event. Photo from shandakenprimitivebiathlon.net.
This is a good time to don a 'coonskin cap, if you've got one. This weekend, the 16th annual Shandaken Primitive Biathlon will be held at the Upper... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 - 12:36 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that the Saugerties Key Bank was robbed at gunpoint at 11:44am this morning by a man who left on foot and remains at large.
Update: The Ulster County Sheriff's Office has released a photo of the robber (above). He is described as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 - 12:22 pm
Photo of rescued deer posted on Facebook by the Lumberland Fire Department on Friday, January 4.
From the river edge of Sullivan County comes a dramatic rescue story: Last Friday, the Lumberland Fire Deparment rescued a doe who had fallen through the ice... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 - 10:25 pm
Image from "How To Survive A Plague" Facebook page.
"How To Survive A Plague," the first film by documentary filmmaker David France, was announced Thursday as an Oscar nominee, making the cut with four other documentary films vying for Best Documentary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 1:57 pm
The Catskills hold special rewards for those who get up early. Here, the sun rises over a snowy field in Esperance, with the waning crescent moon still gleaming in the sky.
Photo taken early Tuesday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME, and shared in... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Above: An artisan at work, carving out an ice sculpture at a past Winterfest. Photo by Suzanne Wirth on the Rail Trail's website.
Grab your mittens and bring your appetite: the Hudson Valley Rail Trail's annual Winterfest is this Saturday, from 11am - 2pm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 3:39 pm
Look closely: The strangely beautiful "icicles" in this photo are actually nail gun coils. Photographer Elizabeth Herman writes us from Pine Hill:
I found ten pounds of nail gun nail coils buried in the detritus under a tree next to our trash bin. They... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 5:11 pm
An Ulster man, 21-year-old Nick Ogden, was struck by a CSX train this weekend, and lost his right arm and leg. Ogden was found severely injured but conscious near the CSX railroad tracks around 7am on Saturday morning.
By Sunday, the Daily Freeman reports... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 1:14 pm
A family of four in Pindars Corners, a neighborhood in the Delaware County town of Davenport, lost their home and most of their possessions in a Friday morning fire. Homeowners Jason and Lacey Layton and their two children were unhurt by the blaze, but... Read more
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