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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:08 pm
One of the Freshtown's iconic wooden bears looks out over a row of grocery carts, lined up and ready for throngs of Margaretville shoppers to descend in the morning. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Margaretville's been waiting a long time for its grocery store to... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Tony Lanza, the longtime superintendent of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, was dismissed from his position today.
Belleayre Mountain is currently run by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which is preparing to hand over the... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:21 am
Photo by Flickr user warrantedarrest; published under Creative Commons license.
State police seized “several ounces” of marijuana on Saturday after responding to a custody issue on Sagendort Corners Road in Howes Cave, and sent a growing operation’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 5:27 pm
Above: A Daily Freeman video about today's bear sighting at a Hurley elementary school.
It must have been tater tot day: The Freeman reports that a bear was spotted foraging in a dumpster at the Ernest C. Myer elementary school in Hurley this afternoon.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 3:42 pm
One of Route 28's funkiest attractions: A '47 Dodge-turned-rocket-ship from Steve Heller's Fabulous Furniture in Boiceville. Photo by Flickr user reclaimedhome; published under Creative Commons license.
Route 28 may not be an official scenic byway (yet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 9:23 am
Photo: Marcellinno Ruiz. From NYSP.
A Wallkill man, 60-year-old Keith Marroon, was killed on Bates Lane in Shawangunk on Sunday when a pick-up truck towing a utility trailer struck the bicycle he was riding.
The driver of the truck, 67-year-old Wallkill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:43 pm
Photo of the Pepacton Reservoir, taken near the East Delaware Tunnel on Tuesday, May 15. The photo shows yellow rubber booms surrounding the area of a small oil spill.
The source of a mysterious oil spill discovered on New York City's Pepacton Reservoir... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 12:59 pm
Above: Christine Leas and Mary Buchen in fetching hats planting peonies at the new community garden in Denning. Photo by Ed Mues, used by permission. More where that came from at the Denning Denizen.
After a generally busy news week fraught with election... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 12:53 pm
Tony Fletcher
Cybele Nielsen
Rebecca Balzac
Laurie Osmond
Shandaken/Lexington
346
56
55
332
Olive/Marbletown
131
399
410
134
Woodstock
281
146
102
273
Hurley
149
223
195
133
Table of results in the May 15 Onteora school board election,... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 - 4:36 pm
As voters head to the polls for school elections today, parents in the Onteora Central School District are still upset over the district's abrupt about-face on a plan to move the elementary music program from the school day to the early morning hours... Read more
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