Liberty
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 - 3:53 pm
Election day in Fleischmanns. Photo contributed by Ben Fenton.
The results are in from most of the region's village elections. Here's a roundup:
In Fleischmanns, the newly-reelected (and unopposed) village trustee Ben Fenton emailed us yesterday about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Today's the day for village elections, and while many races across the Catskills have candidates for various village boards and mayors who are running unopposed, there are a few real contests out there. Here's a list of the heated challenges:
Sullivan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 11:48 am
Yesterday's two public hearings on the proposed regulation of natural gas drilling by the Delaware River Basin Commmission had a good turnout. According to PoconoNews.net, about 500 people showed up at the meeting in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, while the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 2:09 pm
The famous Munson Diner, a much-beloved Hell's Kitchen greasy spoon that made its way to Liberty on the back of a flatbed trailer in 2005 and re-opened to great fanfare in 2007, has closed. Again. From this week's Sullivan County Democrat:
Her most recent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 9:03 am
Above: A photo of one of the many scenes of the abandoned Grossinger's resort.
The first time Jonathan Haeber heard of Grossinger's, he was reading Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Part of the story is set at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 10:16 am
Three cheers for Hazel Akerley, a cafeteria monitor who works at Liberty Middle School. In her time working at the school, she has saved two students from choking on their food by performing well-timed Heimlich maneuvers, according to a news brief in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
A meeting of the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency's board got heated last week when a local dairy farmer chastised the IDA for not doing more to help struggling farmers. The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
[Sullivan County Farm Network] co-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - 12:46 pm
In honor of Lark in the Park, this week's festival of outdoors activities in the Catskills, I'd like to issue a call to arms: If the Catskills are ever going to become an outdoor recreational mecca, we have a lot of work to do.
We need to tear down the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 9:34 am
A pretty incredible traffic stop story out of Sullivan County this morning.
According to a State Police press release, an Ellenville driver named Jason E. Jeter was stopped by a state trooper on Rte. 17 yesterday morning for a traffic violation.
Then... Read more
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