Marbletown
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo: Dave Jacke, author of the indispensable two-volume textbook Edible Forest Gardens and local hero of the permaculture movement, in action. Courtesy of the Northeast Permaculture Convergence.
This Saturday marks the high point of the year for local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 8:40 am
To add to the recent spate of drownings in the Catskills region, Ulster County police are reporting that a man drowned last night in the Rondout Creek in High Falls, according to the Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record:
The Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 11:33 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River at Hawk's Nest, near the spot where a rafter drowned on Saturday. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Three people drowned in local waterways over the Memorial Day weekend.
On Monday, two fishermen lost their footing in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 - 11:01 am
Temple Grandin, the renowned animal behaviorist who is also the world's most famous autistic person, will be in Stone Ridge this week to talk about her twin passions: livestock handling and autism.
Grandin will be giving two lectures at SUNY Ulster, the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2011 - 12:26 pm
With a glut of vacation houses standing empty most of the year, break-ins are a perennial problem in the Catskills and Hudson Valley. But this one kinda takes the cake: A scrum of (mostly) teenagers allegedly occupied a house on Beaverkill Road in Stone... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 - 11:33 am
Government-hating Stone Ridge resident Richard Ulloa, who spent last year demanding trillions of dollars from various banks and government officials who had crossed him, is in jail again this week. Ulloa was arrested in June on four counts of mail fraud... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 1:44 pm
From the Ulster County Sheriff's Office today:
Deputies from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report investigating a PIAA involving two motorcycles on Mohonk Rd in the Town of Marbletown on October 17th, 2010. A 2005 Harley Davidson operated by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 11:21 am
A 29-year-old named Ryan Panchak was found dead in the waters of the Esopus Creek on Friday in the Ulster County town of Marbletown, and yesterday, the State Police announced that the cause of his death was drowning. But, according to the press release,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 3:28 pm
The Shawangunk Journal has printed a series of threatening emails that were sent to a Rondout Valley teacher, Elizabeth Harrington, after she wrote a letter to the Daily Freeman about the rising anger at local teachers over budget cuts. Here's the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 12:21 pm
Coyotes. You've got questions. They've got answers.
On March 4, SUNY Ulster and the Catskill Institute for the Environment are hosting a talk on coyote ecology, featuring a panel of local scientists.
The panel will include Dr. Roland Kays, Curator of... Read more
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