Thompson
By wateradmin on Saturday, Sep. 4, 2010 - 10:20 pm
Barry Thompson is a damn flatlander and a music writer from Boston. He shot this video of Iggy and the Stooges performing “Shake Appeal” at Kutsher's yesterday. He'll be filing dispatches from the music festival All Tomorrow's Parties throughout the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 12:26 pm
If you're one of the 2,000-odd partygoers headed for Kutsher's this weekend, we salute you. And if not, you had surely better have a good excuse. Indie music festival All Tomorrow's Parties, now in its third year, will be taking over the Monticello... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 10:26 am
Another ATV mishap, although so far, this one isn't fatal: 19-year-old Matthew Sanok was riding in the town of Thompson on Saturday when he hit a pile of rocks and was thrown from the vehicle, reports the Times Herald-Record.
Earlier: Catskill 15-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 - 8:09 am
We all know that Kutsher's was a mecca for young comedians in its Borscht Belt heyday, but the Wall Street Journal has a fun article about how it also nursed the likes of Wilt Chamberlain and Mickey Mantle. For Wilt, who worked as a bellhop at Kutsher's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 - 10:47 am
The poor guy is visiting Sullivan County from Brazil, and this is how he gets welcomed. From Voz Iz Neias:
The victim, in his early 50s, was approached by two African-American males in their late teens, one of whom had a handgun. They demanded money and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 5:42 pm
Monticello school board member Jo-Ann Peabody recently moved to North Carolina -- but she wasn't about to let that stop her from serving on the board. Until the Times Herald-Record came calling, that is.
Jo-Ann Peabody released a statement by email late... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 - 2:48 pm
Rte. 17 was covered with dead chickens early this morning. Via the Times Herald-Record.
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2010 - 9:36 am
The man who would be governor is visiting the Catskills whistle-stop style this week, with appearances in Catskill and Cobleskill on Saturday and in Monticello yesterday. Today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to appear at the New Paltz... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 6, 2010 - 10:23 am
... Jamal Colon, from Monticello. He sustained a bullet wound during his Independence Day celebration, and to hear the Times Herald-Record tell is, his methods were almost guaranteed to endanger life and limb:
Jamal Colon, 31, told police he placed a box... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 5, 2010 - 10:52 am
With the last Kutsher on the verge of retirement, the resort that inspired "Dirty Dancing" was poised to follow its Borscht Belt brethren into a long twilight of decrepitude. But in a lucky break for the 103-year-old hotel, caterer Mickey Montal and... Read more