Middletown
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 27, 2013 - 11:52 am
Photo of empty post office box by Flickr user Bryan Alexander. Published under Creative Commons license.
In news, timing is critical. As the old reporter's saying goes: Yesterday's news wraps today's fish.
No wonder River Reporter managing editor Jane... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 26, 2013 - 10:36 am
Ride safe, Catskills: Two local skateboarders have collided with cars in the last week, one of whom was killed. Photo of Jart skateboard by Flickr user Steffen Ramsaier; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, a Long Island teenager on a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2013 - 8:49 am
Nice cauliflowers, kid. Detail from a historical photo from the vault at the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, who have a bunch of wonderful photos from the heyday of the Catskills brassica boom on their Cauliflower Festival website.
Ah, cauliflower... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2013 - 11:58 pm
Above: Work begins in earnest at the Phoenicia Library this week, gutted by fire in March of 2011 and currently occupying a temporary space on Ava Maria Drive. According to a newsletter from library director Liz Potter, restoration work on the building is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 23, 2013 - 9:48 am
Above: A video produced by Sean Eldridge's campaign, announcing the 27-year-old Democrat's bid for New York State's 19th Congressional district. Source: Eldridge's campaign website.
With the release of a campaign video Sunday, 27-year-old Democrat Sean... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 19, 2013 - 12:05 am
The Internet: It really is a series of tubes. Photo of data cable by Flickr user Arild Nybø; published under Creative Commons license.
A long-awaited project to bring high-speed broadband internet and cable televison to some of the most rural towns in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 16, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Above: A document showing a roughly 1,200-acre parcel acquired by the state in Big Indian, near the Belleayre Ski Center. Source: DEC website.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the agency has completed a proposal to... Read more
By Julie McMahon on Monday, Sep. 16, 2013 - 10:44 am
Photo illustration. The reservoir in the background is the Pepacton in Delaware County; photo by Timothy Cox, shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Since 9/11, the number of Department of Environmental Protection police officers in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 13, 2013 - 3:57 pm
Above: Deputy John Demeo and K-9 Osman "Ozzie" Steele, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office's newest drug law enforcement team. Ozzie is the namesake of a famous Catskills officer of the law: Undersheriff Osman Steele, who was the only casualty of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 12, 2013 - 3:45 pm
A round of intense thunderstorms is headed east across upstate New York this afternoon. We're keeping track of fast-moving Catskills weather updates in the Storify post below. As we add new updates, the latest news will automatically appear at the bottom... Read more