Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 29, 2013 - 3:40 pm
Chop wood, carry weeds: Practitioners at work at the garden of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, which grows food for the monastery's kitchen and flowers for the altar. For more photos of the monastery garden at the peak of the summer season,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 10:16 pm
Above: A scene from Tannersville's Crazy Race, an annual Main Street tradition gearing up for its sixth run this weekend.
The trout are running, the weather is glorious, and the last weekend in July is packed from one end to the other with Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 12:12 pm
Above: Taking the plunge at Fawn's Leap, a popular swimming hole on Kaaterskill Creek. It's not uncommon for a few of those who brave the 24-foot drop from the cliff each summer to end up with serious injuries -- so if you must leap, leap with care. Photo... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 9:49 am
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: A good old-fashioned sack race at the 2011 Deposit Lumberjack Festival.
The village of Deposit, normally an entirely peaceable and decorous little place on the West Branch of the Delaware, got its name because... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 11, 2013 - 2:41 pm
Above: VW Parts, William Hrazanek's junkyard that has sat on the bank of the Bushkill for over 20 years. Photo by Julia Reischel, taken on July 9, 2013.
In a rare show of force, a phalanx of state Department of Environmental Conservation officers raided ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:00 pm
Above: New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; published under Creative Commons license.
New York City's watershed police had a little extra duty over the Fourth of July weekend: Keeping four capsized boaters from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 3:07 pm
Above: Detail from a map showing the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a 122-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline that will connect gas from hydrofracked wells in Pennsylvania to a larger network of pipelines serving New York and New England.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:46 am
A Cayuga County husband and wife were killed in a one-car crash in Meredith on Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 3:30pm on Turnpike Road when the driver of the 2013 Toyota, 65-year-old Barbara Secord, lost control of the car. The car ran into... Read more
By Andes Hotel on Thursday, Jul. 4, 2013 - 6:46 pm
7.11-8.29 EVERY THURSDAY-TRIVIA NITE, 7pm
Every Thursday at 7pm in the Tavern with host Cara Vaughan. Teams of 1 to 7 people. Great prizes for each round and final. Winners get their bill slashed in half! No reservations needed.
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