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By Jenna Scherer on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 8:27 pm
In the realm of Catskills-area arts organizations, which are more often focused on inclusiveness than innovation, Mount Tremper Arts is something of an outlier. Come June, the Summer Festival brings emerging and established experimental artists from New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 2:03 pm
A new principal has been appointed for the Woodstock Primary School, the Onteora Central School District announced today.
Kathleen O'Brien is taking over for retiring principal Bobbi Schnell. O'Brien may be a familiar face to some in the district; from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 9:43 am
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a flash flood warning for northern Delaware and southern Otsego counties, including the towns of Delhi and Oneonta. Torrential rainfall is expected anytime between now and 12:30pm, and the Oleout,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 5:06 pm
Above: Fresh-harvested garlic and handmade garlic roasters from Barber's Farm, a family farm in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh. This Saturday, August 17, Barber's and over 20 other local farms are participating in Schoharie County Family Farm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 11:19 am
A gunman who was involved in a hostage situation and a long standoff with law enforcement in a Bovina house on Sunday is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Delaware County sheriff's deputies said in a statement released at 11am Monday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 9:05 am
A standoff between police and an armed gunman that had the town of Bovina on lockdown Sunday has come to an end, police say. But officials are not yet releasing details about the situation, or why it is no longer active.
Delaware County Undersheriff Craig... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:29 am
Bovina is one of those little rural towns that deserves to be called "sleepy." By 11pm on Sunday night, it's usually lights-out for the Delaware County town's 600-odd residents. But on Sunday, August 11, lights were blazing in house after house in Bovina... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:01 am
View Larger MapAbove: A map of Bovina Center. A standoff between police and an armed man is ongoing tonight at a house on County Highway 5.
The subject of a manhunt in the Delaware County town of Bovina is surrounded in a house on County Highway 5, also... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 - 4:48 pm
Photo of Charlie Sanborn, by Nicholas Piatek Photography.
The Catskills are two-wheel paradise, especially if you're not afraid of a few hills. Some people move here just because they love the riding; others try it out on a whim and fall in love with the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 - 8:01 am
A flash flood watch is in effect today for eastern New York and western New England, including Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties. The flash flood watch, issued around 3am by the National Weather Service in Albany, is in effect until 6pm.
Local flood... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 4:49 pm
The principal of the Phoenicia Elementary School, who was removed from her post without explanation in February, has been reinstated by the Onteora School District.
A letter was sent to parents in the Onteora district today by superintendent Phyllis... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 11:01 am
Above: The bar at Tavern 214, ready for business at last. Photo from Tavern 214's Facebook page.
This Saturday, August 10, Phoenicians and other interested parties will at last get to check out Tavern 214, a brand new gastropub opening in what was once... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Above: Protesters at a fundraiser for local Republican Congressman Chris Gibson on Tuesday, at which House Speaker John Boehner was the featured guest. Detail from a larger image posted on Facebook by Citizens Action of New York, whose members took part... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 - 3:32 pm
A crew of employees from the Sportsman's Alamo Cantina gets Davy Crockett settled into his new home at Mystery Spot Antiques, next door to the Cantina on Phoenicia's Main Street. Photo from the Mystery Spot's Facebook page.
There were plenty of weighty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 - 11:54 am
Above: The three top finishers in the men's pro category take the podium on Sunday at Tour of the Catskills, a three-day pro/am cycling race that ranges over some of the Catskills' most grueling road terrain in Greene and Ulster Counties. Left to right:... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Above: Photo of a page from an 1803 shape note tunebook, The Art Of Singing by Andrew Law. Photo by Flickr user Kelly Taylor; published under Creative Commons license.
The shape note revival is coming to Roxbury's newly renovated Kirkside Park barn in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 11:36 am
Kingston welcomed the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign yesterday, as a supporting contingent of Dakota Unity Riders rode down Broadway and a flotilla of paddlers arrived at the Rondout waterfront, accompanied by a replica of a Dutch fur-trading ship called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:58 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 10:53 am
To commemorate the two-year anniversary of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee, which devastated communities across the Catskills on August 28, 2011, we are collecting your flood stories. To see all the submitted flood stories, click here. To see last year's "... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Above: Johanna and Robert Titus, local Ice Age experts and authors. Photo courtesy of the Tituses.
The craggy, jaggy landscapes we know and love as the Catskills have been inspiring the athletic and artistic for centuries. But did you ever wonder how they... Read more
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