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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 9:48 am
A short squib of a crime article in the Daily Freeman on Friday has spawned 33 comments debating whether the death of a goose in the Town of Ulster last Wednesday was an act of homicidal destruction or just an accident.
According to the story, four teens... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 - 11:26 am
Brian Eppley, a Pennsylvania-based painter, posted a portrait of a scene near Fleischmanns on his blog this week. Something about the scene has been haunting him since this winter, when he came through the Catskills to ski:
I've had this image in my head... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 - 11:18 am
John Duda, the chairman of the the group -- the Central Catskills Collaborative -- that is attempting to give Rte. 28 scenic byway status, is steamed about recent recent reports in the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain News that towns along the road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010 - 8:19 am
This heat-wave-plagued summer has been hard on Catskills trout. Paul's Angling Journal brings us a brief update from the DEC: The Esopus is still hot.
At the start of each summer, there is typically a limited supply of cold water in the Schoharie... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 5:07 pm
A reader emailed us to let us know that the 8:30pm shows tonight and tomorrow at the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice will be preceded by even more vocalicious festivity:
While the Friday and Saturday Performances are set for 8:30 at the park, Todaro notes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The Liberty Indy reports that outdoor movies in Lapolt Park -- cancelled hastily last month, when the organizers were informed that one has to pay to host public movie performances -- are back.
After a hiatus caused by licensing issues, MOVIES IN THE... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 1:24 pm
If you've ever parked in the E lot at the Albany airport, you might know how James M. Buccigrossi felt this morning when he discovered that he didn't have enough money to pay his parking fee at the lot's exit. But you probably didn't do what he did next,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 11:04 am
Phoenicia is festooned with banners celebrating this weekend's Festival of the Voice, which starts tonight. Photo via the Festival of the Voice Facebook page.
We're skipping our blurbalicious event roundup this week to put out some fires in other parts... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 10:01 am
The Daily Mail reports that a crew repairing a water main break yesterday hit a gas line, which led to an evacuation of Coxsackie's downtown:
Local resident Antonio D'Arcangelis said he was sitting at his window and saw the backhoe strike the pipeline.
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 9:57 am
You can't read the whole story online, but the one sentence from this Catskills Mountain News article that is visible is a good one:
An Arkville Fire Department tanker truck was seriously damaged on Sunday evening, July 11 while it was being used by one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:35 pm
We got a tip last night that a very meticulous graffiti artist has vandalized the sidewalk on the edge of the village of Andes along Rte. 28, right next to the Andes Town Hall. When we went to take a look for ourselves, we found not one but three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 4:18 pm
A local boy named Brett Joshpe is one of the lawyers involved in challenging plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. This week, the Mountain Eagle interviewed Joshpe, who graduated from high school in Stamford in 1998. In the past... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 10:01 am
Lynn E. Byrne, a resident of Lexington, NY, is outraged that the Windham Journal ran a column praising Japanese Knotweed -- or Polygonum cuspidatum, as it is formally known -- as “a source of many valuable natural products," including nectar for honeybees... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:51 am
The mostly-empty Binnekill stream in Margaretville, photographed in winter 2009 by Flickr user Dougtone.
Yesterday, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a new lawsuit has been filed in a years-long battle between property owner Lauren Davis and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 4:01 pm
Darrelle Revis, a star football player with the New York Jets, might no longer be playing for the team because of a hush-hush meeting at the Roscoe Diner. From ESPN:
Revis' agents, Jon Feinsod and Neil Schwartz, met with general manager Mike Tannenbaum... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 3:48 pm
Greene County historian David Dorpfeld explains the provenance of one of Greene County's odder town names in the Daily Mail:
Coxsackie is an interesting name to speculate about. I recently talked to a woman who told me that, as a teenager, upon hearing... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 3:14 pm
Fall into a lake, drunk. It happened to Amelia McDonell-Parry, who describes her recent bout with a local body of water on TheFrisky.com:
When I woke up, I have a vague memory of standing, assessing my surroundings, and attempting to make my way back to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:58 pm
The five SUNY Delhi students who make up the school's culinary team were feted on the school's campus yesterday after winning a national championship at the American Culinary Federation's annual convention last week. The video above, featuring SUNY Delhi... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The Corbin Hill Road Farm, a new kind of community-supported-agriculture project that brings poor South Bronx residents affordable produce from Schoharie County farms, starred in another article today. (The New York Times profiled the venture back in June... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:15 pm
A driver who didn't notice that his garbage truck's rear gate was up left a Godzilla-like trail of destruction across New Paltz this morning. Among the casualties: a bunch of power lines and a lot of trash. From the Times Herald-Record.
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