Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 3:36 pm
The Daily Star reports that police are searching for a man who robbed the Smoker's Choice in Sidney on Monday:
A male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and jeans entered the business in the Great American Plaza at about 8 p.m., police said. He displayed a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 2:11 pm
The Bovina History blog has a tidbit today proving that -- alas -- the fine art of community newspaper writing has suffered since its nineteenth-century glory days. Ray LaFever writes:
In February 1880, the winter was the subject of discussion, as it is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 8:49 am
The Stamford igloo. Photo by Beth Adams.
George Divine in Stamford has built an enormous, ice-reinforced igloo in his backyard. It's so impressive that the Mountain Eagle has written an article about it:
The four walls of the snow fort received a layer of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 2:58 pm
On Friday afternoon, 42-year-old Thomas J. Berger of Gilboa was killed in an automobile accident in Grand Gorge. Also injured in the crash was Richard Lewis, an 87-year-old from Gilboa, who is being treated at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 10:47 am
The rural Catskills have never been an easy place to do business. When the rest of the country is popping champagne corks and watching the stock market boom, the good times always seem to pass us by. And when recessions hit, the already-hungry local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 9:29 am
WBNG Action News is reporting that a fire engulfed a Hancock trailer home this morning. Although the trailer didn't have a smoke detector installed, the article reports that "2 adults and three kids living at the home made it out safe after noticing the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 - 3:24 pm
The staff of the Hanford Mills Museum cuts ice blocks in preparation for Saturday's Ice Harvest Festival. Image from the Hanford Mills Facebook page.
Ice used to be a crop in the days before refrigeration, and at the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 5:35 pm
Good news: Goldenheart Unidiversity's 'No Bees No Food' project, which we profiled earlier this year, came in first in an online voting drive to receive $5,000 in funding from the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest.
Project mastermind David Turan, cofounder... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 10:18 am
With the snow piling up nicely out there, the hills of Delaware County are alive lately with the vroom of snowmobile engines. A poster on TrailConditions.com reports that he and his brother had a good outing yesterday, despite a small mishap with a tree.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 3:52 pm
We just got an update from Treadwell resident Linda Norris about The Pickle Project, an exhibit about Ukranian foodways which Norris was seeking to fund via the website Kickstarter by February 1. (We reported on the project a few weeks ago.)
From a... Read more
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