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By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 - 3:50 pm
A close-up photograph of a crack inside the Delaware Aqueduct under the hamlet of Roseton in Ulster County. Photo provided by the NYC DEP.
On Friday, the DEP told the world that it is planning an enormous public works project to repair the leaking... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 - 11:30 am
The Schoharie County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a 65-year-old Charleston man was killed yesterday afternoon in a hunting accident that had nothing to do with guns. According to a press release issued by the Sheriff's Office, Robert Sawyer was... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 - 9:31 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here. 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... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010 - 1:59 pm
Today marks the first day of regular deer season -- and the hills are alive with gunshots, blaze orange, and fleeing whitetails. From now until the end of the season on December 12, Catskills residents should take extra care in the woods, and expect to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 9:02 pm
A rendering of the DEP's plans for a three-mile bypass to the Delaware Aqueduct. Image provided by NYC DEP.
Tonight, New York City Department of Environmental Protection commissioner Cas Holloway told a group of Wawarsing residents that their chronically-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 3:53 pm
Two Honduran immigrant brothers perished in a fire at a Saugerties riding club when their cigarettes ignited their wood-frame bungalow on Wednesday night, Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports in today's paper.
While the police have released few... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 2:40 pm
WIOX on its launch day in August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Big radio news across the Catskills today.
In Delaware and Schoharie counties, full-power WIOX station has won a $129,712 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The funds have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 1:06 pm
Blues/funk band Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, a nine-piece Brooklyn band with deep roots in Delaware County, is playing the newly-renovated Oneonta Theatre tonight at 8pm. (Frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe and her brother Jackson Kincheloe, who plays a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 11:49 am
Marc A. LitchkoThe State Police out of the Catskill barracks have released a detailed statement about the events that led to Wednesday's terrifying late-night standoff in downtown Windham. The release reports that six people, five men and one woman, were... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 10:03 am
William Kemble at the Daily Freeman reports the latest in Wawarsing's years-long saga with the leaky Delaware Aqueduct. Tonight, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's commissioner, Cas Holloway, will meet face-to-face with the town's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 5:47 pm
New evidence has emerged in the case of Sonja Ridge, who died under suspcious circumstances over the weekend. The man who was charged with second-degree murder in connection with her death, William A. Sprague III, has been released, according to the Daily... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:29 pm
Jay Todd of Arkville was killed last night when he was struck by a car, while walking on Route 28 in Arkville Middletown.* A press release issued today by the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On Wednesday evening Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:15 pm
The Daily Freeman has been publishing some incredible stories about an ongoing effort to bust participants in a really simple scam: According to police, a Midtown gas station accepted food stamp cards in exchange for half their value in cash, which... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Above: Map of broadband access across the country, via the Federal Communication Commission's broadband mapping tool. Below: A map of AM radio set ownership across the county in 1930, from the U.S. Census Bureau, via The Daily Yonder.
The Daily Yonder had... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 12:19 pm
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the story.
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 9:55 am
Big win for little Kingston publisher McPherson & Co. last night: Their latest novel, a tale of horse-racing in backwoods Virginia by author Jaimy Gordon, just won the National Book Award for fiction. It's the literary equivalent of the Academy Awards... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 8:41 am
A nine-hour standoff between police and reportedly armed people in an apartment over Windham Hardware ended without any injuries around 11pm, according to multiple news reports. The Daily Mail has an extended story today, though details are still emerging... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 7:19 pm
The Daily Mail has a breaking-news story:
At least one armed man is allegedly holding one or more hostages in the Town of Windham, according to reports.
From NY-ALERT at 6:21 pm:
RTE 23 EB/WB CLOSED from South St. to RTE 296 (Town of Windham) at 6:10PM... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 2:18 pm
The National Weather Serivce offices in Binghamton and Albany have issued warnings that winds could reach gusts of up to 50 miles per hour tonight across the Catskills, as well as much of New York and New England. Drivers should watch out for sudden gusts... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 12:19 pm
A homeowner in Hamden is missing a collection of antique powder horns, flasks, and other historical paraphernalia, some of them dating back to the 1700s, according to a press release issued today by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office. The release:
The... Read more
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