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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 - 9:24 am
Video: Tour of the Catskills pro cyclists ride past the Thompson House in Windham this weekend.
Biking is big in the Catskills and Hudson Valley -- and getting bigger, says Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record. Bosch has a story in today's paper on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 4:57 pm
Tomorrow, some 800 cyclists will descend on Greene and Ulster Counties for the fourth annual Tour of the Catskills, a three-day road race that spans nearly 200 miles and draws both amateur and professional cyclists from far and wide. The race will kick... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo of the Western Hotel in Callicoon by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the New York Post today, real estate writer Tina Traster takes a stroll down Callicoon's Main Street, in search of the powerful lure that draws... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 9:05 am
The Cairo-Durham High School was the scene of a horrific accident yesterday morning, when the car of two students on their way to summer school pulled into oncoming traffic on Route 145 and was hit by an SUV.
The accident claimed the life of 17-year-old... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 31, 2011 - 9:45 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 30, 2011 - 9:17 am
Think flash mobs are only for city slickers? Think again. Close to 100 people, including a fireman and a waitress in uniform, blocked Main Street in Delhi yesterday to perform a dance routine to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. (There are at least three... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
The Open Space Institute announced yesterday that the Smiley family, longtime owners of the famous Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, have agreed to sell 874 acres of farm, field and forestland in New Paltz and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening.
The... Read more
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