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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 - 9:32 am
A winning Powerball ticket that was sold at a laundromat in the Village of Catskill has gone unclaimed for days, the Daily Freeman, News10, and the Daily Mail report.
A lottery spoksperson told the Freeman that having $122 mil go unclaimed for a while isn... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 7:51 pm
We just received a press release from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic order that has run the St. Cabrini Home for troubled girls in Esopus since 1890:
The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have engaged in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 4:36 pm
On Friday, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation made it illegal to feed a black bear, even accidentally. From a DEC press release:
As black bear numbers have increased significantly in recent years and bears have become more widespread... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 3:35 pm
Last Friday, an Ulster County Sheriff's deputy reportedly plucked 15-month-old Sarah Schmidt from death.
The baby's parents, Alexander and Andrea, called 911 when Sarah stopped breathing, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 2:25 pm
Frankly, we're a little jealous of the Walton Reporter's new sign, created for them by culinary students from SUNY Delhi. Pretty cool, huh? (Ba-dum bump!)
The second annual Winter Festival in Walton last Saturday was by all accounts a smashing success,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 2:02 pm
In the Freeman today: An update on the case of Emilio and Analia Maya, the Argentinian brother-sister duo behind the Tango Cafe in Saugerties, who are currently facing deportation next month for having illegally overstayed their visas.
For now, the Mayas... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Roxbury Arts Group Opening Reception - Picture Our Passion from VeccVideography on Vimeo.
We know it's barely been a week since we featured a Jessica Vecchione video about the Delaware County Arc, but we just can't help but do it again today.
This time,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 10:54 am
Across New York, we're getting the kind of cold that you don't see that often. In the Catskills, there were warnings of wind chills of 20 to 35 degrees below zero last night -- the kind of temps that could kill you if you stay outside too long.
In Sushan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 10:17 am
A pagan group that wants the town of Catskill to recognize it as a religious organization may lose its Palenville home before the end of the year.
The Maetreum of Cybele, a pagan community that owns the former Central House hotel on Rte. 23A, has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 - 10:57 am
This week, the Woodstock Times profiles the little hamlet of Pine Hill, which is currently mustering its few hundred residents in a community-wide effort to get listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.
Attracting tourism to Pine Hill... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 - 9:49 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 - 12:56 pm
It's cold. Really cold. Tonight and tomorrow night, temperature lows are going to be well below zero across the Catskills, according to the National Weather Service. On Sunday night in Kingston, the mercury will go down to -8; in Ellenville, it will hit -... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:40 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent out a press release today announcing that three stands of trees on three different parcels of city-owned upstate land will be the focus of a new forest management program.
The three sites are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Linda Norris, an independent museum professional based in Treadwell, first set foot in Ukraine in the dead of winter two years ago. One of the first things she noticed was that it wasn't that different from January in the Catskills.
Over the months since... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 1:54 pm
In an increasingly digital age, when so many time-honored skills and crafts seem poised on the lip of the dustbin of history, it's refreshing to know that there are a few traditional craftspeople still keeping the faith.
Take, for instance, analog... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 12:06 pm
For the nine million people who drink New York City water, the city buying a few thousand acres of upstate land each year hardly registers as news. But in the towns whose fields and forests make up New York City's million-acre Catskill/Delaware watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 10:28 am
If you're one of those people who just can't get enough of cows, barns, fresh eggs and homegrown tomatoes -- and, let's face it, you probably wouldn't live here if you didn't have an endless capacity for these things -- you might want to tune into WJFF... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 9:34 am
The Croton Reservoir: Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Times had a neat article yesterday about the history of the New York Public Library building, which stands on what once was the Croton Reservoir.
The reservoir opened for business in 1842 as the city's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 6:32 pm
If you bought propane gas -- or got it delivered -- between February 25 and September 30 of last year, be warned: Distributor Aux Sable announced a massive recall today, after it was discovered that some of the gas they shipped (sold under a variety of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 3:07 pm
The AP is reporting that icing problems are forcing Central Hudson to turn of its natural gas service to hundreds of customers in Ulster County for several days, just in time for a very cold snap.
The Ulster County Red Cross is opening an overnight... Read more
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