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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jun. 12, 2010 - 11:59 am
You've got to hand it to Washington County farmers Jen Small and Mike Yezzi: they're marketing geniuses. This morning, the New York Times had a big, splashy article about "Farm Camp," a program invented by Small and Yezzi in which they invite city chefs... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 5:26 pm
Tomorrow afternoon from noon to 4pm, Roxbury celebrates its native son, the naturalist John Burroughs, with music and storytelling on the porch of his former home, Woodchuck Lodge.
A June shindig at Woodchuck Lodge is an annual tradition, but this year,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 4:36 pm
The Daily Mail investigates local sentiment about outdoor wood boilers -- in light of the Department of Environmental Conservation's opinion that they're bad for the environment and for human health -- and finds that wood boiler dealers are hurting:
“... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 4:02 pm
When Kathleen Aitken's son Joe was attacked by Jesse Horos with a baseball bat at a Claryville party last summer, a series of improbable events led to his survival. The first miracle? Cell phone service in an impossible place:
Kathy says that the miracles... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 3:28 pm
The Shawangunk Journal has printed a series of threatening emails that were sent to a Rondout Valley teacher, Elizabeth Harrington, after she wrote a letter to the Daily Freeman about the rising anger at local teachers over budget cuts. Here's the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 1:50 pm
In an editorial printed in the Times-Union today, Catskill Heritage Alliance chairman Richard Schaedle points out an interesting coincidence: the cost of keeping the state parks open this summer is exactly the same as the price that developer Dean Gitter... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 12:33 pm
Pete Lawrence, a writer who got his first racetrack job at the Monticello Raceway in 1972, recalls in Hoof Beats Magazine how he walked his way into the gig:
So one spring morning in '72, my dad, my good friend Danny Rosenblatt (who's Dr. Rosenblatt... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:09 pm
Here's a smattering of our favorite upcoming events for the weekend. For more ideas of stuff to do around the Catskills, check out our event calendar.
Meredith Dairy FestMore than just Holsteins: Alpacas at last year's Meredith Dairy Fest
Never heard of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 4:04 pm
In May, students hailing from Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night HS trucked up to Greene County to plant trees along the once-degraded Batavia Kill with kids from Jefferson Central and Gilboa-Conesville Schools. Our columnist Aaron Bennett was there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:38 pm
Protestations by Kingston superintendent Gerard Gretzinger notwithstanding, it looks like Kingston High School has a cockroach problem. Though it could be worse, the Freeman reports.
Cory Kassler, a senior public health sanitarian for the Ulster County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:34 pm
Hundreds of landowners stood in the Albany rain yesterday to demand an immediate start to gas drilling in New York State. Here's a roundup of the coverage of the rally. (The Central New York Land Coalition has its own collection of links here.) If you... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:36 am
In the New York Post this week: "The Catskills from A to Z." (Lucky for them Hunter's putting in that zipline this year, eh?)
Looks like they strained a little for the X -- but nice job, Post!
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 10, 2010 - 11:22 am
Once a year, the students of Delaware Academy in Delhi drive their tractors to school in a show of rural pride. This morning, a line of tractors arrived at school in time to do a ceremonial lap around the lawn before classes started. One of them, pictured... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 11:22 pm
Peter Applebome, the writer behind the New York Times's "Our Towns" column, reports from the Walton Theatre this week, where documentary filmmaker Josh Fox showed his anti-drilling film "Gasland" this Monday. (Too bad we missed Applebome at the screening... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 4:00 pm
We must stress that it's preliminary, but what you see above is the gist of the new Catskills-specific design that will soon be perched atop road signs throughout Catskill Park. It's the result of months of brainstorming by a crack team of town... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 3:58 pm
On Saturday morning, a tipster called in a complaint to the DEC about dead fish in the Plattekill Creek just below the vllage of Saugerties' Blue Mountain Reservoir.
The timing seems to point to the Saugerties water department: On Friday afternoon, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 2:05 pm
Kingston school Superintendent Gerard Gretzinger felt it necessary to strike down an anonymous complaint about cockroaches in the cafeteria of Kingston High School yesterday with some strong rhetoric. According to the Daily Freeman, Gretzinger insisted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 11:40 am
The Catskill Mountain News reports today that funding has dried up for the eCenter in Margaretville:
The eCenter is being created by Delaware County Industrial Development Agency (IDA). Glenn Nealis, executive director of the IDA, told the News last week... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 11:13 am
The New York Times celebrated the fruits of many farmers' labors yesterday with a long article about the new prevalence of locally-raised beef and pork at city farm markets. No Catskills farmers were mentioned, but beef from Otsego County and Columbia... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
57-year-old David Huse, the owner of Stone Broke Farms in Warnerville, was killed on Monday when his tractor was hit by a car, according to the Times Journal:
Troopers said the driver of the car, 20-year-old Courtney Chichester of Little York Road,... Read more
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