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By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 4:16 pm
Above: Preserves at the Greenville Farmers & Crafts Market, this weekend at the Greenville Cultural Center. Photo from the Great Northern Catskills website.
We're in the thick of autumn now: Cairo's apple festival is past, pumpkins and squash are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 2:44 pm
Above: Noel van Swol, in a screenshot from a 2011 YouTube video from Energy In Depth's Northeast Marcellus Initiative. In the video, van Swol cites the Anti-Rent Wars as a precedent for the pro-gas-drilling movement in upstate New York, and tells an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 12:55 pm
Photo courtesy of Focus Media.
Coming soon to 2121 Ulster Avenue in Lake Katrine: The heady smell of fresh-baked bread. A lot of it.
State and local officials gathered Monday to cut the ribbon on a Lake Katrine building that will be the site of Bread... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 4:15 pm
On Thursday evening, a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer on Route 17 in Deposit left 43-year-old Robert Stanton dead, the Daily Star reports.
The Star describes the collision:
Stanton, of Evans Road, who was driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 - 9:36 am
This weekend, the Frost Valley YMCA bids farewell to a longtime champion. D. Halbe Brown, who was camp director at Frost Valley from 1966 to 2001 and raised his five children at the Claryville camp, died on September 13. On Sunday, the camp will hold a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 - 9:36 am
Rumors are flying in the Delaware County town of Stamford, which was the scene of heavy law enforcement activity last night. So far, little information has been released about the nature of the incident, but state troopers told the Watershed Post that an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 - 11:02 am
DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man from the Rosendale hamlet of Tillson, 52-year-old William F. Ryan, on multiple burglary charges, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Ryan faces charges of third-degree burglary, third-degree... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 - 3:18 pm
For the third time this year, the Daily Mail reports, a suspicious fire has destroyed a house in Prattsville. The house belonged to Jim Rion, and was in the process of being rebuilt after sustaining significant damage in the Irene floods.
Officials... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 - 10:11 am
Above: Jim Richardson of the Walton Theatre Preservation Association. All photos courtesy of Jim Richardson.
In June, the Walton Theatre, along with every other small movie theater across the country, received an ultimatum: Convert your 35mm projector to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 - 10:18 pm
Update: Autumn Fitzpatrick was found late Saturday night and is home safe.
An Accord girl who attends Coleman High School in Kingston, 14-year-old Autumn Fitzpatrick, was reported missing earlier today. According to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office,... Read more
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