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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 3:39 pm
Tom Wargo may not have been elected mayor of Middleburgh last month, but he's pretty sure he got more than two votes.
Wargo, who came in last by a long shot in a three-way race between incumbent Bill Ansel-McCabe and winning challenger Matthew Avitabile... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 2:31 pm
Above: Jack Jordan listens as Vincent Bernstein reads a resolution to retain legal defense for the town against a lawsuit brought recently by Hanover Farms. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
Highlights from the Shandaken town board meeting on Monday, April 2:... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 12:19 pm
Spring has sprung, despite the thermometer and farmer's markets are beginning to pop up from their winter hiatuses. One that's literally popping up is the Stamford pop-up farmer's market, setting up at the historic Stamford railroad station this afternoon... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 5, 2012 - 9:47 am
The Daily Freeman reports that Saugerties police are looking for 46-year-old Jessica I. Plotnick, last seen around 1pm on Monday afternoon:
[Deputy police chief Joseph] Sinagra said Plotnick left her home driving a dark red 2001 Subaru Legacy with New... 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 Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 1:28 pm
To the editor:
Schoharie and Otsego counties are in my new Congressional District, the 19th C.D. Dutchess County is also in our 19th C.D., so we have the pleasure of being in the same C.D. as that wonderful progressive Joel Tyner, a 5 term Dutchess county... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 - 9:48 am
A Hurley man, 48-year-old John C. Benkert, has been arrested on charges of grand larceny and forgery after a five-month investigation into his business dealings.
State police say he stole over $360,000 from victims by convincing them to loan him money for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 10:50 pm
Walter Goodrich, a recently elected member of the Sidney town council and a 28-year veteran of the New York State Police, has died.
News of Goodrich's death was posted on Facebook today by a member of the Sidney Bi-Partisan Coalition, which campaigned on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Above: A juvenile American eel, sometimes called a "glass eel." Photo via the NY DEC website.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conversation announced today that the number of migrating American eels in the Hudson River may break some... 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
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012 - 9:30 am
State troopers announced today that two Livingston Manor residents, 47-year-old Peter F. Dilauro and 26-year-old James F. Slater, were arrested on felony charges of burglary in the third degree. Dilauro also faces a charge of possession of burglar's tools... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Apr. 2, 2012 - 5:37 pm
Above: A 1957 timetable for the Pine Hill - Kingston Bus Corporation. Courtesy of Watershed Post reader Stu Silverman.
Sometimes, once-commonplace things must almost vanish before they are finally revered. Forgotten familiar items can spend decades in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 2, 2012 - 12:53 pm
Above: A photo of mugshots posted on the Kingston Police Department's Facebook wall after Saturday's arrests.
Local news outlets were buzzing last weekend with the news: A massive crackdown on drug and gang activity in the Kingston area, dubbed "Operation... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 2, 2012 - 10:57 am
Above: The Times Herald-Record films the first cast of Opening Day on the Willowemoc Creek, with Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther and actor Olek Krupa joining the crew of eager flyfishers.
April 1 was the first day of trout season in New York State -- and for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 1, 2012 - 3:58 pm
Lisa VanOrden, a 49-year-old Kerhonkson resident, died on Saturday, March 31 after a one-vehicle car crash on Samsonville Road in the town of Rochester.
The Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports that she was found unconscious in the car after her vehicle... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Freshtown, the Margaretville supermarket that is still closed seven months after it was heavily damaged in the Irene floods, announced to local officials this week that work is being done in the building, and they hope to be "fully operational" by June 1... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:19 pm
Above: Screenshot of a National Weather Service map showing the 24-hour snow accumulation forecast across the country, for March 31 through April 1. Note the red spot showing 80 percent probability of an inch or more, hovering right over the Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 5:22 pm
Above: Video taken by YouTube user mjanensch1 on Monday, August 29, 2011, showing heavy flood damage to Bridge Street and the Bridge Street Bridge in Phoenicia.
Phoenicia's Bridge Street Bridge over the Esopus Creek, knocked out of commission by the Irene... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 12:46 pm
Photo courtesy of Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This summer, from August 2-5, will be the third annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Last year's festival culminated in a thrilling performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Phoenicia's Parrish Field,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 30, 2012 - 10:21 am
Still waters run deep. Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir by Flickr user Doug Kerr. Published under Creative Commons license.
Ulster County's battle with NYC over the muddy Esopus has made the pages of the New York Times at last. Reporter Mireya... Read more
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