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By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 30, 2014 - 10:25 pm
Roads in the higher elevations of the Catskills are dangerously slick tonight, especially in the western Catskills counties of Delaware and Sullivan, where the National Weather Service's Binghamton office has issued a special weather bulletin about bands... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 29, 2014 - 3:39 pm
A mix of heavy rains in the forecast, late-spring snow still clinging to mountain slopes, and still-frozen ground could be a recipe for flash flooding in the Catskills region Saturday night through Monday, forecasters warn.
Heavy rain is expected to move... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 28, 2014 - 11:21 am
More than 3,100 households in Delaware County were without power this morning, across an area that included most of NYSEG's customers in the towns of Stamford, Kortright and Harpersfield.
As of around 10:45 a.m., a NYSEG power outage map was reporting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014 - 4:23 pm
A year after it was begun, a New York State program to help homeowners pay for damage inflicted by Irene, Lee and Sandy is coming to a close. The NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, which funds repair, mortgage assistance, flood mitigation and buyouts of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014 - 12:22 pm
Above: The entries in the "traditional" category of the Fleischmanns First Maple Festival's annual Maple Bake-Off, which was held last Saturday. Photo by Michelle Sidrane.
The great thing about Maple Weekend is that it's actually two weekends.
Yes, you'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2014 - 4:14 pm
Top: Fire engulfs the historic Rexmere Hotel around 11 a.m. on March 25, 2014. Photo by Chris Becker. To see a slideshow of the fire as it destroyed the building in about 20 minutes, see the bottom of this story.
Above: Video of the Rexmere collapsing... Read more
By Danielle Russo on Monday, Mar. 24, 2014 - 3:48 pm
The Mattice family lost their home on March 18, 2014. The family did not have any insurance on the house. Fire officials stated the house goes on record as a total loss. A donation fund has been set up to assist the Mattice family with the rebuild. Any... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2014 - 2:44 pm
A fast-moving fire destroyed a house on River Street in the village of Stamford last night, forcing a man, Nick Mattice, to jump to safety from the second floor of the structure before first responders arrived at the scene.
No injuries were reported, but... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2014 - 11:18 am
Above: Old-fashioned aprons hang in a Main Street window in Fleischmanns for the annual Maple Bake Off. Photo courtesy of Fleischmanns First.
The sights, sounds and smells of sap boiling in the sugarhouse mean that sweetness, like springtime, is just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 - 5:20 pm
Illustration by Flickr user Adreson Vita Sá; published under Creative Commons license.
'Tis the season for green beer -- and rural voting. The day after St. Patrick's Day, New York State's littlest municipalities head for the polls to pick their elected... Read more
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