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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 3:39 pm
Above: Aerial imagery of a property at 294 John Lockwood Road where two bodies were found Tuesday (highlighted in blue on the map). Source: Delaware County Community Online Mapping Tool.
On Tuesday afternoon, police conducting a criminal investigation at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 2:21 pm
Above: Wilfred settles into his new home at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of WFAS.
News flash: Yet another kinda-famous Brooklynite makes an escape to the Catskills. (He's got the obligatory goatee and piercings, too.)
Meet the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 11:39 am
Willie Janeway, a Department of Environmental Conservation official who heads the agency's Region 3 in the Hudson Valley and lower Catskills, is leaving for a nonprofit job in the high peaks of the Adirondacks.
The Adirondack Council, a prominent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 9:44 am
Above: Middleburgh's Municipal Building. Photo by Carolyn Simmons; reproduced by permission.
In a public vote Tuesday on whether or not to dissolve the village of Middleburgh, residents voted by a decisive 344-71 to keep their village government, several... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 11:31 am
Photo of L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle by Flickr user Keary O. Published under Creative Commons license.
County governments across upstate New York are weighing in against New York State's new gun control law, the SAFE Act. By the time the dust settles on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 - 5:11 pm
William Thornton, a 49-year-old Monticello resident and the former business manager of the Eldred Central School District, was arrested on Friday on charges that he stole $20,000 from the district.
On November 17, 2012, state police say, the Eldred school... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 3:56 pm
A fuel tanker crashed and overturned on Route 209 in Accord on Friday morning, closing the road in both directions during prime morning commuting hours.
The accident occurred at 8:08am, according to the New York State Police, who responded to the scene.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 1:04 pm
The Kingston City School District reports that six students at Zena Elementary School received minor injuries in a head-on school bus collision with a car on Sawkill Road in Kingston on Friday morning.
All students are safe, the district announced:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 10:10 am
Currently making the rounds of Change.org: A petition by pro-drilling Southern Tier residents to allow Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben and Tioga Counties to secede from New York State and join Pennsylvania.
The signers, frustrated by New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 8:59 am
Above: Aerial imagery of a private property in Lexington that stands between the Greene County legislature and a project to stabilize a landslide that threatens Spruceton Road. Source: Greene County GIS web map.
Seeing no other way to carry out a project... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 - 6:17 pm
In the backpacks of Phoenicia Elementary School students today, along with the annual haul of Valentine's Day cards, was a somber letter from the Onteora School District: Principal Linda Sella was placed on administrative leave this week.
In a phone... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 - 11:56 am
Officially, TED stands for "Technology, Education, Design." But the growing video talk series is much more than an acronym. It's a movement of smart ideas, fascinating thinkers, and free access to innovation -- and this weekend, a Manhattan TED event... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 10:00 pm
St. Valentine, it might be remembered, got into a heap of trouble for marrying couples in defiance of the government, which had decreed that young men remain single so that they’d make better soldiers for the state. No matter your feelings about Hallmark-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 2:49 pm
Bruce Loertscher, supervisor of the Ulster County town of Plattekill, died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer, several local news outlets are reporting. He was 56.
Ulster County legislator Kevin Roberts, a longtime friend of Loertscher's, told the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 11:47 am
Photo of New York City's Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user dougtone; published under Creative Commons license.
Two towns in New York City's Catskills watershed passed bans on gas drilling on Tuesday: Andes, near the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 1:16 am
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 - 12:19 pm
The Ulster County town of Olive is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a ban on gas drilling and petroleum extraction within town borders. A hearing on the proposed local law was held on Monday, February 11.
In May of 2012, the Olive town board passed a one-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 7:58 pm
Above: A photo of Doyle at WIOX 91.3FM's studio in 2011. Photo by Simona David, via the WIOX Facebook page.
Terry Doyle, a Catskills reporter and radio show host who was a widely-known fixture of the local music community, died last week.
Doyle died... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 1:40 pm
A 49-year-old Kingston man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Kingston resident Anita Jacobs-Royer, who was found strangled to death in her Third Avenue home on Sunday, February 3.
Audelis Cruz was arrested on Sunday,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 11:49 am
Photo of New York Cardinal-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, circa 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons.
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by announcing that he would resign on February 28. As the New York Times noted in a front-page story, he will be the... Read more
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