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By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jun. 4, 2011 - 1:50 pm
Photo of the Mamakating rail trail from the Open Space Institute.
It's National Trails Day today, and the New York City-based Open Space Institute has something to celebrate: the recent acquisition of three miles of the old O&W rail bed in the town of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 3:12 pm
A delivery truck headed east on Route 28 in Phoenicia yesterday afternoon caused a collision with a pickup truck driven by a local teenager, totaling the pickup and injuring its occupants. A press release from the Shandaken Police Department:
The Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 2:12 pm
Memorial Day weekend at the Frost Valley Farm Camp. Photos by Larson Harley. Used with permission.
Photographer Larson Harley spent Memorial Day weekend at the Frost Valley YMCA's Farm Camp, where he was briefly seduced by a vision of living in the... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 12:49 pm
Town of Colchester Highway Superintendent Kenneth Eck Jr. at the site of a streambank failure on Cooks Falls Road. Photo by Lillian Browne.
The Beaverkill, a famous fly-fishing stream that runs through lower Delaware County, is gaining a reputation for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 8:54 am
Above: Alleged serial hiking trail car burglars Donna A. Nollner and Billy D. Ganoe Jr. Photo provided by the New York State Police.
A man and a woman who allegedly specialize in robbing empty vehicles parked next to Catskills hiking trails have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 4:43 pm
Deadpan quote of the week goes to Callicoon dairy farmer Adam Diehl, the subject of a story in Tuesday's Sullivan County Democrat. Here's Diehl on the apocalyptic storm that blew through his farm last week, uprooting trees, tearing shingles off roofs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 4:11 pm
Video clip about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers by filmmaker Carole Hart, maker of the documentary film For The Next Seven Generations.
In October of 2004, thirteen elders from indigenous cultures scattered around the world... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 3:59 pm
A bulls-eye rash characteristic of Lyme Disease. Photo by Hannah Garrison via Wikimedia Commons.
The Greene County Legislature's education committee got an earful about the dangers of Lyme Disease yesterday from a Cornell educator who is convinced that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 1:01 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a 53-year-old woman from Meridale reportedly blacked out behind the wheel in Meredith yesterday before driving her pickup truck off the highway and into shrubs, a house, and a ceramic birdbath.
Laura... 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 Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 9:01 am
Yesterday's Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) hearing at Deposit High School was packed, according to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin. The topic under discussion was XTO Energy's request to withdraw water from Broome County's Oquaga Creek to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 6:04 pm
This weekend brings musical fairytales to the Shandaken Theatrical Society -- but don't expect a sweet little bedtime story. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's dark, witty remix of familiar fables, directed by STS's own Amy Wallace, opens this Friday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 2:26 pm
This just in from the West Kortright Centre: Michelle Shocked, the singer-songwrriter who was slated to play the WKC this Sunday, won't be coming after all. Here's what WKC marketing director Lisbeth Firmin emailed us about the cancellation:
"Due to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 12:11 pm
The Viviana Hansen Gallery, a cozy little trove of works from local artists and lovingly curated antiques that has been a fixture of Delhi's Main Street for the last five years, has packed up and moved -- but not too far. The gallery recently announced... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 11:16 am
There's an email going around Shandaken circles that links to this video. It does put Shandaken's farmstand troubles in perspective.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 11:03 am
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office is reporting that justice was swift when an angry 22-year-old started ripping down Memorial Day flags in Grand Gorge on Saturday.
According to a press release, Robert J. Giordano was spotted systematically throwing the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 9:45 am
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation may hand over the management of Belleayre Mountain Ski Center to the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) as soon as this winter, the Plattsburgh Press-Republican reports today:
State agencies... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2011 - 9:27 am
Hordes of volunteers who love the Sullivan County town of Roscoe mobilized this week, armed themselves with computers and email addresses, and went to work voting four times a day in a World Fishing Network contest for "Ultimate Fishing Town USA." All... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 7:44 pm
Remember when New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman threatened back in April to sue the federal government over hydraulic fracturing? He meant it.
The New York Daily News Daily Politics blog has posted the complaint that Schneiderman filed today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 2:53 pm
Videographer Lance Wheeler may specialize in "exceptional and affordable wedding video," but on Saturday he shot a death-defying rescue of a pilot trapped in a crashed glider in Greene County.
In the video above, which has quite the knuckle-biting... Read more
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