Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Tractor Day, 2011. Photo by Jill Ogden. Used with permission.
Last Thursday was "Tractor Day" at Delaware Academy in Delhi, which means that the segment of the student body with the most rural pride drove to work in and on farm machinery, sometimes from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
By wateradmin on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 11:39 am
Above: A storm looms over the Catskills in Delhi. Photo by Flickr user Max Talbot-Minkin.
The recent weather nutsiness -- particularly the tornado warning for Delaware County two weeks ago -- inspired our occasional poetical contributor (and SUNY Delhi... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 3:41 pm
Quinn Kelley, founder of Chicken Hill Farm Handmade Soaps, with Skye the Auracana. Photo by Joe Damone.
Summer in the Catskills means it's the height of craft fair season once again, and Quinn Kelley, the 15-year-old proprietor of Chicken Hill Farm... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2011 - 1:43 pm
From left to right: James Rueger, representative from Shandaken, Pine Hill Community Center (holding small round sign); Robert Selkowitz, Town of Olive (holding rectangular sign); Diane Galusha, Catskill Watershed Corporation; Doris Bartlett, Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2011 - 8:58 am
Above: "Downhill," a documentary by Jason Latorre of I Said Cut Productions about the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.
News broke last week that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is poised to hand the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center over... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 7, 2011 - 11:45 am
Photo of crowd outside last week's DRBC hearing in Deposit by Lillian Browne.
On Wednesday, June 1, the Delaware River Basin Commission held a public hearing in Deposit to discuss whether or not the agency should grant XTO Energy a permit to withdraw... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Monday, Jun. 6, 2011 - 9:43 am
On Thursday, June 2, the town of Walton turned out en masse to see itself on the silver screen: The independent feature film “Afterlight,” filmed on location in Walton, screened at the Walton Theater.
The town's been anticipating this premiere for a long... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 12:49 pm
Town of Colchester Highway Superintendent Kenneth Eck Jr. at the site of a streambank failure on Cooks Falls Road. Photo by Lillian Browne.
The Beaverkill, a famous fly-fishing stream that runs through lower Delaware County, is gaining a reputation for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 1:01 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a 53-year-old woman from Meridale reportedly blacked out behind the wheel in Meredith yesterday before driving her pickup truck off the highway and into shrubs, a house, and a ceramic birdbath.
Laura... Read more
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