Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 5:20 pm
Linda Norris, Treadwell's resident expert on museums and Ukraine, has been running the Pickle Project, her travelling roadshow about Ukrainian foodways, ever since she secured seed funding for it earlier this year. (We interviewed Linda about the Pickle... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 9:16 am
No, that's not a miniature town in a train set. It's Delhi, seen through the lens of local photographer Vala Kjarval, who took this photo a few days ago.
Kjarval has an eye for finding a startling perspective on familiar objects and landscapes. You can... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 - 4:44 pm
Photo: 2010 Delaware County Fair from above. From delawarecountyfair.org.
The Delaware County Fair in Walton got off to a muddy start yesterday, but a little rain can't spoil the county's biggest, loudest, stickiest, most gloriously carnivalesque event of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 - 11:55 am
Last Saturday, the little Delaware County town of Andes came alive with the rat-a-tat of marching drums and the plunk of banjo strings, as the annual Community Day parade wended its way down Route 28. And then the festivities really got underway. (It's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 - 5:41 pm
Photo of the Fleischmanns theater in 2009 by Doug Kerr, via Flickr.
A dispute over the ownership of the Fleischmanns movie theater has finally been resolved, leaving the village of Fleischmanns in the movie business.
In a decision issued last week, U.S.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Photo by Flickr user Skånska Matupplevelser.
A local farming couple is planning to build a creamery in Delaware County, and hoping to bring the future of Catskills dairy farming with them.
By building the Kortright Creek Creamery, goat farmers Tom and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 - 4:51 pm
The village of Deposit in 1887. Photo by snapshotsofthepast.com, via Flickr.
Two Delaware County towns are throwing big bashes this weekend celebrating, well, themselves.
The town of Deposit will be celebrating its 200th birthday on Saturday. Deposit was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 - 12:08 pm
On Friday, August 19, the citizens of Andes will have the chance to weigh in on the controversial issue of hydraulic fracturing, at a town-sponsored public forum on the issue.
The forum will be held at 7pm at the Andes Central School. USGS hydrogeologist... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 - 2:50 pm
The U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 - 9:45 am
Photo of twee chainsaw bear in front of the Margaretville Freshtown by Lissa Harris.
This week, Upstater -- a new blog about real estate and rural life, for downstate folks with upstate inclinations-- takes a look at the Delaware County village of... Read more
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