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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 11:20 am
The town of Hancock in Delaware County has declared a state of emergency, the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin and WBNG Channel 12 report.
Hancock, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Delaware County Emergency Services report a State of Emergency in Hancock. That's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:50 am
Above: Photo of a bridge in Brown Rd/McKinley Hollow in Big Indian Valley this morning by Pierre Levesque. Below, a photo of flooding reaching the door of a cabin in McKinley Hollow by Levesque.
Below: A CNN iReport by user kkeaveny. Photo taken around 4... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:42 am
The villages of Livingston Manor and Roscoe in the Town of Rockland are experiencing significant flooding, according to the Sullivan County website, and the town of Rockland has declared a state of emergency, according to County Manager David Faslau:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:29 am
Above: Reader Catherine Sapinsky send us this photo of the Margaretville skate park, taken this morning at 8am.
Carol O'Beirne, the Executive Director of the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, emails us with a report of what it looks like on the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 5:22 pm
Poor little Sidney. One day, it's just like any other town in Delaware County, where people leave their cars unlocked on Main Street and the latest scandal tends to be about some new wood-boiler regulation. Next thing you know, it's on national television... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 4:24 pm
Roxbury's only medical clinic will close in November, a spokeswoman for the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley confirmed today.
“It will be closing, yes, in November,” said Sylvia Murphy, the Health Alliance's director of marketing told the Watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 2:25 pm
Sandy Foster, of New York Times and DIY-gingerbread-cottage fame, took a bunch of lovely photos of asters by her cottage in Delhi this week.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 1:02 pm
What you really need for your cozy little upstate cabin this blizzard season is a generator and a "cottage cam," the New York Post tells us today. I'll take a few cords of wood first, thanks.
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Apex Bridge over the Cannonsville Reservoir on September 27. Photo by Jack McShane.
Paddlers and canoe enthusiasts rejoiced last year when the New York City Department of Environmental Projection announced that it would be opening up the Cannonsville... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:39 am
There's a flood watch in effect for some of the Catskills region today and tonight. (Surprise, surprise.) For the western Catskills, from NOAA:
OTSEGO-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-430 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 9:34 am
A pretty incredible traffic stop story out of Sullivan County this morning.
According to a State Police press release, an Ellenville driver named Jason E. Jeter was stopped by a state trooper on Rte. 17 yesterday morning for a traffic violation.
Then... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 4:24 pm
So how did the community-radio festival and training-fest in Hudson go last weekend? WGXC and the Prometheus Project have a slew of videos recording the "community radio barnraising" in action, so you can see for yourself what it was like. Here's a "video... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 1:04 pm
If you're driving on I-88, you might need to rethink your bathroom break strategies come December 1. New York State is strapped for cash, so the NY Department of Transportation is closing six rest stops on highways around the state this fall to save money... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 11:45 am
The Greene County Council on the Arts, which was preparing to lose its shirt in the economic meltdown two months ago, has been saved by donations, the Daily Freeman reports.
Earlier: New York State: Putting the "starving" back in 'artist"
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 10:48 am
Yesterday's fire in Saugerties destroyed 123 Partition St., which housed a wine store and five apartments, the Daily Freeman reports, but no one was hurt in the blaze:
No one who lives or works in the building was injured, though one firefighter strained... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 6:40 am
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann anointed Sidney town supervisor Bob McCarthy the day's "Worst Person In The World," for leading a charge to dig up a local Sufi community's tiny cemetery over a nebulous permitting issue.
No TV personality can ever... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:04 am
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
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