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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 5:12 pm
Forecasters are calling for heavy, wet snow to fall across the Catskills late this evening and overnight, moving from south to north.
Accumulations could reach 5 to 10 inches in western Greene and Ulster Counties, according to a winter storm warning... Read more
By The Open Eye Theater on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 8:43 am
The Open Eye’s Tuesday Night at the Theater presents Wild Horse from Shangri-la Tuesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. Written by Dennis Chan, Zhaopei Gan and Gigo Lee. Directed by Gigo Lee. With Gendun Hodsad. When Wild Horse discovers his little sister needs... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 2:18 pm
This week, Delaware County is likely to join a growing contingent of upstate New York counties declaring opposition to the SAFE Act, New York State's new gun control law.
Among a slate of resolutions to be taken up at the Delaware County Board of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 - 10:30 am
Watch out on the roads tonight, drivers: Winter weather advisories are in effect this evening across the Catskills region, and forecasters are calling for freezing rain changing over to snow overnight.
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 11:31 am
Photo of L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle by Flickr user Keary O. Published under Creative Commons license.
County governments across upstate New York are weighing in against New York State's new gun control law, the SAFE Act. By the time the dust settles on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 10:10 am
Currently making the rounds of Change.org: A petition by pro-drilling Southern Tier residents to allow Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben and Tioga Counties to secede from New York State and join Pennsylvania.
The signers, frustrated by New... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 10:00 pm
St. Valentine, it might be remembered, got into a heap of trouble for marrying couples in defiance of the government, which had decreed that young men remain single so that they’d make better soldiers for the state. No matter your feelings about Hallmark-... Read more
By Amiebh on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 11:11 am
The Open Eye Theater 's Tuesday Night at the Theater presents "The Letter Writer". Rebellious teen Maggy Fuller unexpectedly receives a life-changing letter in the mail and tries to track down the writer. Presentation is Tuesday, February 19th at 7 p.m... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 1:16 am
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
By bodyworx on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 - 8:34 am
Please join us at The Open Eye Theater for February Fantasia
Saturday, February 16 at 7:00pm or Sunday, February 17 at 3:00pm
Communities of the Western Catskills are invited to The Open Eye Theater's reading performance of "February Fantasia"-fifteen... Read more