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By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 12:49 pm
You've probably seen this little blue flower before, but odds are you haven't really noticed it. Catskills Photography gets a closer look at what looks to us like Veronica persica, also known as bird's eye or Persian speedwell. This little blue flower is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 11:39 am
Above: A small customer visits the Cheese Barrel on its first day in its renovated old location, Saturday May 19. Photo by Julia Reischel.
The Cheese Barrel, a cafe and gourmet grocer on Main Street Margaretville, was inundated by Tropical Storm Irene's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 9:23 am
Photo: Marcellinno Ruiz. From NYSP.
A Wallkill man, 60-year-old Keith Marroon, was killed on Bates Lane in Shawangunk on Sunday when a pick-up truck towing a utility trailer struck the bicycle he was riding.
The driver of the truck, 67-year-old Wallkill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 20, 2012 - 1:30 pm
Summer is on its way in. Memorial Day is a week from tomorrow, and our special Memorial Day Guide is out. We'll be posting stories and events to it all week, so come back early and often to plan your weekend.
One of the big stories of this year's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 20, 2012 - 1:06 am
Memorial Day marks the start of the busy season in the Catskills. Local Main Streets rouse themselves from their spring slumbers and get ready for the summer tourist season with parties, parades, sales, events, shows and festivals.
This year's Memorial... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 6:26 pm
Above: Cycling on some Catskills roads. Photo via the Catskill Mountain Cycling Club Facebook page.
Cyclists who ride the Catskills know this is a perfect place to get on the bike for a quick 20-miler. And what better time to do it than this Memorial Day... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 5:25 pm
Above: The Pepacton Reservoir in August 2011, before it opened for public recreational paddling. Photo by S58y, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Aaron Bennett is the consultant to the Enhanced Recreational Access Project for the upper East Branch of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:43 pm
Photo of the Pepacton Reservoir, taken near the East Delaware Tunnel on Tuesday, May 15. The photo shows yellow rubber booms surrounding the area of a small oil spill.
The source of a mysterious oil spill discovered on New York City's Pepacton Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:05 pm
Photo of Opus 40 by Flickr user Bluesguy From NY. Published under Creative Commons license.
This weekend, the Catskills' most enduring monument to one man's artistic vision, the six-and-a-half-acre Saugerties bluestone sculpture known as Opus 40,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 3:08 pm
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that on Thursday afternoon, 34-year-old Jason C. Franklin and 22-year-old Julia Lacon, both of New Paltz, were arrested and charged with the burglary of an abandoned house on Union Center Road in Esopus.
Police... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 1:27 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office reports that 22-year-old Davenport resident Christopher Palmatier was arrested on Thursday, May 17 on charges of third-degree rape and child endangerment.
Under New York State law, a charge of rape in the third degree... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 12:59 pm
Above: Christine Leas and Mary Buchen in fetching hats planting peonies at the new community garden in Denning. Photo by Ed Mues, used by permission. More where that came from at the Denning Denizen.
After a generally busy news week fraught with election... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 17, 2012 - 3:05 pm
State police report that a four-day crime spree that stretched from Saratoga Springs to Richmondville has come to an end, with the arrest of 36-year-old Saratoga Springs resident Nicholas P. Beer.
According to a release from the New York State Police,... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, May. 17, 2012 - 12:57 pm
Photo of fire damage to the Matthew 25 Food Pantry in Catskill. Matthew 25 founder Patti Dushane has published several photos of the damage to the food bank's website.
The Daily Mail is reporting today that an electrical fire gutted the Matthew 25 food... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 17, 2012 - 12:54 pm
Ruby resident Martin Kimber, a 59-year-old retired pharmacist, has been indicted on federal charges of chemical weapon stockpiling. He is currently being held in jail while awaiting trial, and a federal judge has deemed him too dangerous to release on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 17, 2012 - 12:40 am
Jean Craighead George, a Newbery Medal-winning children's book author who made the Catskills wilderness famous in her 1959 book "My Side of the Mountain," died Tuesday at the age of 92.
In a recent obituary, New York Times writer Margalit Fox writes that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 3:15 pm
A joint team of state and village police arrested four people suspected of selling cocaine and crack cocaine across Greene County early this morning.
According to a press release from the New York State Police, the bust was the result of a month-long... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 2:46 pm
A 41-year-old man was arrested by the New York State Police in Roscoe yesterday after he allegedly crashed his car, broke into a house, and fell off a roof.
According to a State Police press release, David Teipelke was under the influence of drugs when he... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 12:53 pm
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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 16, 2012 - 12:05 pm
Photo of a small tugboat and an oil spill surrounded by yellow booms on the Pepacton Reservoir. Taken on Tuesday, May 15 from Route 30, near the pump station for the East Delaware Tunnel. Photos by Lissa Harris.
The source of a small oil spill in New York... Read more
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