Greene County
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010 - 8:46 am
In last December's issue of Harper's magazine, reporter David Cargill fired a shot across the bow of the $1-billion-plus effort to clean the Hudson River of cancer-causing PCBs by dredging: The General Electric Superfraud: Why the Hudson River will never... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 10:14 am
YouTube user 125sigbn somehow flew over the Mountain Jam music festival last week and posted the view on YouTube. (His profile page is a little thin on the details of how, exactly, he flies, but it looks pretty real.)
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 17, 2010 - 11:12 am
Vincent Seeley, the president of the village of Catskill who recently floated the idea of closing the town's bars at 2am instead of 4am, is backing down, the Daily Mail reports:
“As of right now, [the idea] is dead,” Seeley said. “I am not going to pursue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 4:36 pm
The Daily Mail investigates local sentiment about outdoor wood boilers -- in light of the Department of Environmental Conservation's opinion that they're bad for the environment and for human health -- and finds that wood boiler dealers are hurting:
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 4:00 pm
We must stress that it's preliminary, but what you see above is the gist of the new Catskills-specific design that will soon be perched atop road signs throughout Catskill Park. It's the result of months of brainstorming by a crack team of town... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 7, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Summertime in upstate New York is rich in opportunities for log-pulling, pie-eating, livestock-admiring and tractor-ogling. Case in point: The Agfest in New Baltimore over the weekend. Points to the Daily Mail for their extravagant use of four-cent words... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010 - 12:10 pm
17-year-old Olivia Rose Belfiglio fell to her death Friday afternoon while hiking with friends in the Devil's Kitchen in Hunter. It's the second fatality in just over a month in the area.
From the Times Herald-Record:
Authorities said none of the hikers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:31 am
A sunny moment at Mountain Jam.
This weekend in the Catskills, you can ogle a tractor, quaff a locally-brewed beer, prance in a Pride parade, and mob the stage with the masses at the Mountain Jam music festival.
Mountain Jam Festival - Friday, June 4... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 30, 2010 - 1:36 pm
Sounds like a good time was had by all at the Tannersville Duck Race yesterday -- an annual event that, as of this year, now includes a Crazy Boat component. From the Catskill Daily Mail:
Among the more inventive boat designs were the Canoe Quack, a blue... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 27, 2010 - 9:29 am
Small-town newspaper articles usually begin with a sober account of the news. But today, Windham Journal staff writer Michael Ryan broke the mold and decided to start an article about municipal improvements in the town of Ashland with a little more pow: ... Read more
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