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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 - 2:29 am
Above: The Cannonsville Reservoir looking serene, if a bit low on water, in July of 2012. Photo by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; published under Creative Commons license.
The agency that manages New York City's water -- and its vast upstate watershed --... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 5:03 pm
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Above: Video of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 'State of the State' address on Wednesday afternoon.
In his 2013 'State of the State' address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out an ambitious... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 1:57 pm
The Catskills hold special rewards for those who get up early. Here, the sun rises over a snowy field in Esperance, with the waning crescent moon still gleaming in the sky.
Photo taken early Tuesday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME, and shared in... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Above: An artisan at work, carving out an ice sculpture at a past Winterfest. Photo by Suzanne Wirth on the Rail Trail's website.
Grab your mittens and bring your appetite: the Hudson Valley Rail Trail's annual Winterfest is this Saturday, from 11am - 2pm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 12:26 pm
The Schoharie County Board of Supervisors has elected Fulton supervisor Phil Skowfoe as county chairman, in a close vote taken Monday evening. Skowfoe is the first Democrat to lead the county board in 20 years, the Schoharie Times Journal reports:
Mr.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 4:38 pm
A registered nurse from New Paltz who works at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility is charged with promoting prison contraband and petit larceny, after police found her in possession of stolen prescription drugs while working at the prison.
The New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 3:39 pm
Look closely: The strangely beautiful "icicles" in this photo are actually nail gun coils. Photographer Elizabeth Herman writes us from Pine Hill:
I found ten pounds of nail gun nail coils buried in the detritus under a tree next to our trash bin. They... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 11:33 am
Ulster County law enforcement officers are spearheading a county-wide effort to review local school safety policies, and are seeking input from the public about what can be done to make Ulster County schools safer.
In the wake of the Newtown shootings in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 10:24 pm
On Monday, the Village of Walton Police Department arrested 27-year-old Walton resident Jennifer L. Morris, in connection with a series of graphic and disturbing death threats made on Facebook to Walton children last week.
Although police say more charges... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 5:11 pm
An Ulster man, 21-year-old Nick Ogden, was struck by a CSX train this weekend, and lost his right arm and leg. Ogden was found severely injured but conscious near the CSX railroad tracks around 7am on Saturday morning.
By Sunday, the Daily Freeman reports... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 1:14 pm
A family of four in Pindars Corners, a neighborhood in the Delaware County town of Davenport, lost their home and most of their possessions in a Friday morning fire. Homeowners Jason and Lacey Layton and their two children were unhurt by the blaze, but... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 12:12 am
Several children in the Walton Central School District have been targeted by an unknown person who used Facebook to spread pornography, tag pictures of dead children with the names of local students, and threaten to reenact the Sandy Hook shootings in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 - 1:40 pm
Above: The website for the new Say What? gallery in Tannersville.
Tannersville just got even cooler. A new contemporary art gallery, Say What?, has opened on Main Street (Rte. 23A), next door to the Orpheum Theater, in a space owned by the Catskill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 - 11:04 am
Upstate Films in Woodstock. Photo from Upstate Films' Facebook wall.
Upstate Films, a nonprofit that runs two small arthouse movie theaters in Rhinebeck and Woodstock, is racing the clock to raise $180,000 for two digital projectors.
It's an upgrade the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 - 3:18 pm
The Catskills gets its fair share of random celebrities, but we're not much of a hotspot for Beltway insiders. Maybe that's changing, though: U.S. Senator Christopher Coons, Democrat of Delaware, was recently spotted at the Roxbury, where the Senator and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 8:19 pm
New York State Police in Catskill announced today that they are investigating the death of a Greenville resident, 40-year-old Scott Myer, as a homicide.
On Tuesday, police were called to check on Myer's welfare at his home at 262 West Road. Responding... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 3:10 pm
The governors of New York and New Jersey are publicly venting outrage over a decision by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to adjourn on Tuesday night without voting on a critical Hurricane Sandy relief bill.
This afternoon, New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 12:51 pm
A truly tabloid-worthy story in today's Daily Freeman: Saugerties police have arrested a Phoenicia man who allegedly plotted to shoot his ex-girlfriend and then himself.
John R. Howland of Church Street in Phoenicia, 63, was arrested after a Saugerties... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 12:24 pm
Roger F. Coleman, publisher of Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on Monday, New Year's Eve in Kentucky. He was 61.
The Hudson-Catskill Newspapers company publishes the Daily Mail in Catskill and the Register-Star in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 - 10:19 am
Sidney radio station WCDO, which broadcasts on 101 FM and 1490 AM, rang in the New Year with a new online live audio stream. As of January 1, the station -- one of the few that broadcasts original local news and sports in the region -- can be heard live... Read more
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