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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 1:42 pm
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 5:39 pm
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.
The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 10:16 am
Trouble, billiards and romance come to Boiceville tonight as Onteora Middle and High School students put on "The Music Man" as their spring musical. Above, Onteora seniors Zoe Patschke (as Marian the Librarian) and Seth Owitz (as Professor Harold Hill)... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Above: Scale model of the planned hotel and lodge buildings at Highmount -- part of the proposed Belleayre Resort project -- from a supplemental draft environmental impact statement released Wednesday by the DEC.
The long-planned Belleayre Resort project... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013 - 10:05 am
A man was arrested after allegedly shooting another man in the face with an air pistol on 5th Street in Narrowsburg on Sunday evening, police say.
Narrowsburg resident Eric Hector, 48, is charged with assault in the second degree and criminal possession... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013 - 11:54 am
Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013 - 11:24 am
Top: A photo by Amanda Lee Popp, which won an honorable mention in last year's Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013. Thanks!
To celebrate the 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide that we'll... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 2:04 pm
Catskill: Not a bunch of mountains in upstate New York. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
You've got to feel for the village of Catskill. It's forever getting confused with the Catskills -- a region that the little... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 11:05 am
Above: Filmmaker Dennis O'Clair offers a sneak peek at what's in store at the fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival.
The fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival takes as its mission “bringing the hottest names in literature to the coolest town in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 9:29 am
A water main break in the village of Coxsackie that occurred around 2am Monday has shut down Route 385, put the village under a boil-water alert, and delayed the opening of schools in the village.
A message posted on NY-Alert this morning states that... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 4:52 pm
Above: Retrofitters at work transforming a Rosendale home into a model of energy efficiency. Photo courtesy of Manna Jo Greene.
The Festival Town -- site of the first green-built, geothermal community center in the state -- will be ahead of the enviro-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 3:13 pm
The area around Vinnie's Farm Market on Route 32 in Saugerties just got a little safer, cops say.
An investigation into ongoing complaints of heroin sales near the fruit stand has yielded an arrest. On Tuesday, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 10:31 am
Photo of Ashokan Reservoir Fountain by Flickr user ianbckwltr; published under Creative Commons license.
Part of the public area near the Ashokan Reservoir Fountain will be closed until April 25 while a contractor cleans up hundreds of trees damaged or... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013 - 4:40 pm
Above: Part one of a video of a contentious WJFF board meeting held on March 20. You can see part two below.
A public spat over the management of WJFF, a community public radio station broadcasting at 90.5 FM from Jeffersonville, came to a head Wednesday... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013 - 11:25 am
Photo from Peekamoose's Facebook page.
Storytelling and good food have gone together since time immemorial. This Sunday evening, the Peekamoose Restaurant in Big Indian celebrates both, with “Talking With Our Mouths Full: An Evening of Stories about Food... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 6:14 pm
An old rule of etiquette: Don't discuss religion or politics at the dinner table. In upstate New York, one might banish two more incendiary topics from polite dining conversation: Fracking and gun control.
Since the hasty and controversial passage of New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 4:28 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Frederick Schussler Jr., life member and former assistant chief of the Lomontville Fire Department, was killed on Wednesday when a car he was working on fell on him:
The man — identified by his sister as Frederick Schussler... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 12:21 pm
From a glance at the New York State Police blotter, the arrest of two Stamford women on Monday evening on minor charges, after a "disturbance" at a local restaurant, doesn't look too unusual.
But a local man who witnessed the incident described a bizarre... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 10:56 am
An off-duty New York State Police trooper has been arrested after allegedly breaking his girlfriend's nose during a domestic dispute in her Highland home on Friday, April 5.
The victim reported the incident to state police on Saturday.
Investigator Louis... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2013 - 10:37 am
Pro tip: Don't lose these. Photo of kayak paddle by Flickr user Jan Smith; published under Creative Commons license.
Two men from Pine Bush who hoped to kayak the Neversink River on Sunday, from Holiday Mountain to Cuddebackville, had to be rescued by... Read more
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