Sullivan County
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 - 2:23 pm
Tuesday, April 24 is the New York State presidential primary -- but with frontrunner Mitt Romney coasting toward the 2012 GOP nomination, the press isn't too excited about it.
"Every four years, the New York primary becomes less significant," the New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012 - 10:31 pm
Heavy rains forecast across much of the region for tonight and tomorrow morning mean a flood watch for the eastern Catskills, as well as western New England.
An alert from the National Weather Service warns that Greene, Ulster and Schoharie County could... Read more
By Jason Dole on Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 - 10:29 am
Above: Three-year-old Brody Day savors the victory of having reeled in the first trout of the "first cast" ceremony at Roscoe's Junction Pool, held on April 14 this year because of the holidays. Photo by Jason Dole.
On Saturday, Roscoe reminded everyone... Read more
By Jason Dole on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 5:48 pm
Above: Joel Tyner and campaign volunteer Burr Hubbell hold a receipt for 2,350 signatures filed with the New York State Board of Elections. Photo by Jess Vecchione.
It can't be easy being Joel Tyner. While the four-term Dutchess County legislator has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 16, 2012 - 10:13 am
Above: YouTube footage of a fire at the Grandview Palace in Fallsburg. Early on in the video, a woman - presumably a resident of the complex - can be heard saying, "Well, there goes our first investment in real estate."
For the second weekend in a row,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 11:33 pm
Hurricane Irene over the Bahamas on August 25, 2011. Image by NOAA.
Hurricane Irene caused so much death and destruction in 2011 that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the name 'Irene' from the rotating list of Atlantic Basin tropical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 5:11 pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Middleburgh Fire Department today, announcing that New York State will cover the local share of flood recovery costs in 25 counties. Photo by David Avitabile of the Schoharie County Times Journal; reproduced by permission.
Local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 12:41 pm
The Catskills are catnip for artists, and have been ever since Thomas Cole painted his first majestic waterfall. Filmmaker David Becker is the latest aesthete to respond to the lure of the mountains, and he's making a whole film about the subject. In his... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 3:08 pm
The Catskills are full of summer camps, one for every ethnicity. Carolyn Simmons of West Laurels, NY visited a Russian summer camp called OTRADNOYE in Swan Lake, Sullivan County back in 2009. The camp's brightly-colored campus was deserted when she was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 9:59 am
State officials have posted a Missing Child/College Student Alert for 20-year-old Ashley MacDonald, last seen in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh around 11pm on April 2.
MacDonald is described as 5'1" and 105 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes... Read more
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