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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013 - 9:29 am
Most village-level politicians up for re-election in the Catskills on Tuesday went unchallenged. But some local villages had contests -- and with big issues like tax caps and flood recovery on the table even at the smallest level of government, the few... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 - 2:30 pm
Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey. Published under Creative Commons license.
Upstate New Yorkers living under the sway of the state's littlest governments go to the polls today, to elect new mayors and village boards or give the incumbents another two years... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 - 10:54 am
Nope, it's not a yellowing photograph exhumed from a family attic: This shot was taken on March 7 by photographer James McCracken, who climbed Slide Mountain with his friend Marshall Rudd.
A late-winter hike along the 6.8 mile loop to the summit of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 4:09 pm
Scenic route is scenic. Photo of New York State Route 28 by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, March 12, the town board of Olive voted 3-2 to approve a resolution in support of a plan to get a 50-mile stretch of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 11:16 am
Hiding in the bucolic Delaware County landscape: A burgeoning problem of drug dealing and addiction-fueled crime. Photo of tractor-crossing sign sporting a few bullet holes taken in Bloomville by photographer Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 10:04 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a Saturday evening car crash on Route 42 in Fallsburg claimed the life of an 18-year-old Woodbourne resident, after the car she was riding in struck a tree:
Police say Franseca Torres, 18, was killed and a second... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 9:43 am
Reader Lillian Browne ran across this wayward baked good on East Brook Road in Walton on Sunday morning. (Almost literally.)
Bread puns and yeasty punchlines welcome, folks; leave yours in the comments below.
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 8:21 am
Spring may be due to kick off officially in just a couple of days, but winter isn't done with the Catskills yet. Starting tonight, the National Weather Service warns, we're in for a round of snow and sleet, with accumulations of up to eight inches in... Read more
By David J. Krajicek on Saturday, Mar. 16, 2013 - 11:11 am
A sign on the door at 1884 South River Road in Walton, the former home of Debra and Randy Sundstrom. Photo by David J. Krajicek.
WALTON, N.Y.--When Randy Sundstrom disappeared three years ago, his wife had an explanation that prompted hugs of sympathy,... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Mar. 15, 2013 - 12:47 pm
We found the pot of gold: It's at Roxbury Mountain Maple. (And a dozen-plus other syrupmakers around the Catskills, all celebrating Maple Weekend on March 16-17 and 23-24.) Photo from Roxbury Mountain Maple's Facebook page.
Editor's note: We have added... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 11:32 pm
A three-month investigation into cocaine sales in Delaware County netted three arrests in the Town of Middletown on Wednesday, state police say.
According to a statement from the New York State Police, three people were arrested at a home at 104 Frog... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 5:26 pm
Delhi village police arrested two suspects Thursday for allegedly making threats at the Delaware Academy Central School District in Delhi.
Parents of children at the school got two troubling voicemail messages from the school -- one Wednesday and one on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 1:44 pm
Above: Homemade pie with apples from Wrights Farm, destined to meet a sticky end in Lazy Crazy Acres's small-batch Apple Cobbler gelato. Photo from Pure Catskills's Facebook wall.
It's 3.14 today, which means math nerds and pie-lovers around the world are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 - 10:14 am
Above: Gerald Babcock. Photo from New York State Police. Below: Jamielynn Bleakley. Photo from Keyser Funeral Service website.
A Denning man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, after allegedly beating his girlfriend to death in the couple's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013 - 1:19 pm
All press is good press, or so the saying goes -- but not so at SUNY Delhi this week, where news of several student drug arrests follows closely on the heels of a bomb hoax that evacuated the tallest building in Delaware County on Tuesday.
Delaware... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013 - 2:32 pm
The National Weather Service out of Albany has issued a spate of advisories for the entire area. Delaware, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster counties are under a flood advisory until 5 pm. while Delaware and Sullivan are also under a flash flood watch. A flood... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013 - 2:24 pm
Above: Evenden Tower at SUNY Delhi. Photo from a photo tour of the SUNY Delhi campus on the college's website.
This story was updated at 2:25pm.
SUNY Delhi received a bomb threat that locked down the tallest building on campus this morning, according to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013 - 10:21 am
Deposit Community Theatre and Performing Arts Center, located at 14B Front St. in Deposit. Photo by Mike Musante.
It's not easy being a 76-year-old movie theater in the Catskills. The movie palace in Deposit, which showed its first film in 1937, was a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 11, 2013 - 12:47 pm
A 60-year-old Pennsylvania man flipped over his SUV on Peekamoose Road in the town of Denning on Friday, March 8, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office reports today.
Kenneth John Rex's Jeep Grand Cherokee was found upside down blocking both lanes of traffic... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Monday, Mar. 11, 2013 - 11:27 am
There may have been a solid pack of snow on the ground from Friday's storm, but Saturday at Colgate Lake in East Jewett was balmy, sunny and spectacular. Photo of lake, dam and Blackhead Range by Andrea Girolamo.
Share your photos with other WP readers:... Read more
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