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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 29, 2013 - 4:18 pm
A City of Kingston dump truck blocks the Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks near the Washington Avenue intersection in Kingston. Photo taken Saturday, April 27; courtesy of the Catskill Mountain Railroad.
A City of Kingston dump truck recently appeared on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 - 10:34 am
Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license.
Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from Georgia to Connecticut, an onslaught of giant bugs that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Over the weekend, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office released an updated list of their top ten most wanted fugitives from justice.
The ten men on the list are wanted for a wide variety of alleged offenses: assault, larceny, welfare fraud, failing to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 4:23 pm
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Sullivan County, along with much of Pennsylvania, for Friday afternoon and evening. (Update, 9:30pm: The area is no longer under tornado watch.)
Sullivan County, along with the rest of the Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 1:42 pm
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 5:39 pm
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.
The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 10:16 am
Trouble, billiards and romance come to Boiceville tonight as Onteora Middle and High School students put on "The Music Man" as their spring musical. Above, Onteora seniors Zoe Patschke (as Marian the Librarian) and Seth Owitz (as Professor Harold Hill)... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013 - 11:54 am
Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013 - 11:24 am
Top: A photo by Amanda Lee Popp, which won an honorable mention in last year's Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013. Thanks!
To celebrate the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide that we'll... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 5, 2013 - 9:04 am
Above: The Times Herald-Record's office in Middletown, Orange County. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The News Corp-owned media group that publishes the Times Herald-Record may soon be on the market, according to a story this week in the Wall Street Journal (... Read more