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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 4:53 pm
SUNY Delhi students Jonathon Cusimano, Phil Bianchi, and Andrew Marsh at the New York State SkillsUSA competition on March 24 at Alfred State's School of Applied Technology, Wellsville. Photo courtesy of SUNY Delhi.
Three SUNY Delhi students are headed... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 12:34 pm
Above: Signing in at the Diamond Notch Falls Trail in West Kill. 'Tis the season for hoofin' around. Photo by Andrea Girolamo.
First things first: what are you doing this weekend? Well, whatever you're doing, you're going to be hungry and luckily there'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 13, 2012 - 11:32 am
Walton resident David Hopkins, 23, was arrested yesterday, after fleeing Delaware County sheriff's deputies and state police in a chase from Route 357 in Franklin to I-88.
According to a release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, Hopkins was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012 - 2:21 pm
Mike Hein announces an executive order banning the use of frac fluid by any county department. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Ulster County Executive.
Ulster County executive Mike Hein issued an executive order today to prevent the spreading of brine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012 - 11:23 am
Photo of check presented to Roxbury Central School by GRLIC for a new media and technology center at the school. Courtesy of Jenn Schuman.
With school budgets under fierce pressure, and enrollments dropping throughout the region, many local schools are... 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 Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 2:19 pm
Two banks were robbed in the region this week: the Bank of Greene County in Greenport on Monday, and the Sawyer Savings Bank in Saugerties on Tuesday. Police have arrested suspects in both robberies, and think they may be connected.
On Tuesday, just hours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 2012 - 9:59 am
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will pay a visit to the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh today at 12:30 to make a public announcement about flood recovery in the area.
Cuomo will be at the headquarters of the Middleburgh Fire Department, at 127 Railroad Avenue. On... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 11:51 pm
Gas drillers aren't exactly clamoring to set up rigs in the Ulster County town of Olive, well north and east of the more gas-rich parts of the Marcellus Shale in New York State. But town officials are worried enough about the prospect of hydraulic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 10:22 pm
The owners of the Freshtown supermarket in Margaretville, which has been closed since the Irene flooding last summer, publicly announced today that the store would reopen before June 1. They also say that the CVS pharmacy at the site, which was completely... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 4:18 pm
George Ballantine and Robert Selkowitz have been friends for 30 years. Both men, who paint in oil and pastels, have a show opening at 768 main in Margaretville this Saturday with a party that is also doubling as Ballantine's 90th birthday party. Come... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 10:18 am
Three Greene County men -- 20-year-old Patrick Hutchings of Cairo, and 22-year-old Jacob E. Connors and 23-year-old David K. Moore of Catskill -- have been arrested after an investigation into a burglary of a home and the assault of its owner in Durham on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012 - 9:57 am
Two programs that have been helping with the local effort to rebuild and restore the region after the Irene and Lee floods announced application deadlines this week.
A $2.5 million program for funding debris removal from streams in the New York City... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 3:18 pm
Above: Stayin' Alive columnist (and Shandaken Ambulance Service captain) Rich Muellerleile properly geared up for a spin around town with local bike blogger Mike Wentland.
I could try to scare you with a diatribe citing national statistics on mortality... 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 Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 10:54 am
Above: Video of fire at the Tamarack Lodge from the Times Herald-Record.
Wildfire raged across the property of the former Tamarack Lodge on Route 52 in Greenfield Park over the weekend, destroying dozens of buildings and calling hundreds of firefighters... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 - 9:35 am
A Westchester County man was arrested and jailed last week for allegedly pumping hundreds of gallons of raw sewage into Catskill Creek.
James Sheerin of Ardsley, NY was arrested last week after an investigation by the state Department of Environmental... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Apr. 6, 2012 - 12:54 pm
Above: Scenes from a Mall, specifically the abandoned Apollo Mall in Monticello. Taken by Catskills Photography, and part of the Watershed Post's Flickr community.
Roxbury Central is set to receive a large gift to improve technology for students and the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 6, 2012 - 11:39 am
An experimental plane struck a tree and crashed in a Kerhonkson field late in the afternoon on Thursday. Its pilot and sole occupant, 50-year-old New Paltz resident Mark Thomas, was injured in the crash, but according to a New York State Police press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 9:36 pm
In an abrupt about-face, the Fleischmanns village board has appointed trustee Todd Pascarella as mayor, to fill a vacancy left by former mayor Dave Morell's resignation.
In February, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a motion by trustee Ben Fenton... Read more
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