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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 - 8:55 am
Above photo from the New York State Police.
On Monday, three young Margaretville residents were stopped in the town of Middletown as they were driving a U-Haul truck, which, according to a State Police press release, turned out to be loaded with 60... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 8:12 pm
Chalk it up to stubborn environmentalists, the rotten economy, or maybe both: A planned development project in New Paltz that just a couple of years ago was drawing hundreds of irate citizens to packed town meetings is apparently dead. An eagle-eyed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 1:02 pm
This just in from Delaware County Emergency Services:
State Highway 206 in Trout Creek has been closed between Masonville and Walton due to water across the roadway. A detour has been established taking the traveling public from State Highway 206 to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 12:16 pm
Above: Video of the aftermath of the Margaretville shooting, April 25, 2007.
Four years ago this week, Travis D. Trim, a 23-year-old parole violator, died in a shootout in a farmhouse on the edge of Margaretville that also killed State Trooper David C.... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 10:30 am
From the Onteora High School webpage:
This community forum will provide the public with accurate, timely information about sex offenders. The forum will dispel myths about sex offenders and advise community members on how to better protect their... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 9:23 am
A stretch of Route 23B in Cairo, by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
Unlike most upstate New York towns, the Greene County town of Cairo has never had zoning laws to govern where and how development is carried out. But for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 8:27 am
Radar image of severe thunderstorms over eastern New York and Pennsylvania at 8:20am. Via the National Weather Service, Binghamton station.
It was a wild weather night for much of the Catskills region. Here in Andes, wind and rain reached a fever pitch... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 7:45 am
From now until 8am, watch out for thunderstorms so fierce that they might produce tornadoes in Sullivan County, according to NY Alert:
The National Weather Service In Binghamton Has Issued A * Tornado Warning For... Sullivan County In Central New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 3:18 pm
Photo of a man wearing buckskins by Robert Lawton, via Wikimedia Commons.
Have a few deer hides lying around? The Catskill Forest Association is hosting a two-day workshop on how to turn a raw deer hide into buckskin, a kind of soft leather akin to suede... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 10:52 am
Watershed Post reader Alexandra Marvar took this photo of a misty evening over the Sawkill Creek in Woodstock earlier this week. (The Sawkill looks so peaceful: hard to believe just over a month ago it looked like this.)
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 10:42 am
The Esopus fire department's impressive home in Ulster County. Photo via the Esopus Fire Department's website.
On Sunday, the Times Union dared to ask a troublemaking question in an editorial: In this era of budget-slashing, should we be cutting back on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2011 - 9:36 am
The Daily Freeman has the story (and some heart-stopping photos):
ST. REMY — Three students and the driver escaped a school bus fire Tuesday afternoon on Union Center Road in this town of Esopus hamlet, according to the St. Remy fire chief.
Michael... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 2:36 pm
Two drivers in two counties took the hit-and-run to new places this past weekend.
The first, a 20-year-old Narrowsburg man, reportedly hit a guardrail on Gables Road in the town of Tusten on Saturday, and then drove off. Not only did Victor J. Chmura... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 11:17 am
Nadya Hall, in pink, plays Liesl, and Edith Lerner, in white, plays Maria, in the Onteora Central School's production of The Sound of Music. J'nae Gibbs (left) and Jacquelyn Garraffa (right) play the two nuns.
This Thursday, the halls of Onteora Middle... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 10:48 am
The Daily Mail reports that Bailiwick Ranch, a zoo in the town of Catskill in Greene County, lost a bunch of animals in a fire in the property's reptile house last night:
“It’s upsetting,” said Garry Koschitzki, the facility’s owner. “You come home and it... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 9:58 am
There's something about Rte. 17 and egregious speeding.
Sean Flaherty: Photo via NYSPAccording to the State Police, 21-year-old Sean E. Flaherty of New Hampshire was caught doing 121 mph on the highway in a brand-new Audi on Sunday. The police think that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 - 9:40 am
A car carrier loaded with nine vehicles burned for hours on the Thruway just south of Kingston yesterday, closing traffic in both directions for much of the afternoon, according to a press release from the State Police.
Several of the cars being hauled... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 25, 2011 - 9:24 pm
Tragedy struck in Esopus this afternoon when 22-year-old Thomas Heil was struck and killed by a CSX train. His brother, 20-year-old Christopher Heil, was also on the tracks, and sustained a shoulder injury.
The press release from the Ulster County Sheriff... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 25, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Photo from the PHCC's Facebook page.
The Pine Hill Community Center is holding a volunteer work day this Saturday, April 30. From an email they sent out today:
Hello friends. Please lend a hand to the Pine Hill Community Center this Saturday April 30... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 25, 2011 - 1:31 pm
In the Albany Times-Union today: The Irish American Heritage Museum, which has been a summer fixture in the Catskills town of Durham for 25 years, is moving to Albany and will be open year-round.
It's an exciting move for the museum, which up til now has... Read more
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