Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 10:28 am
The hosts and broadcasters at Roxbury's WIOX radio station are celebrating today. The full-power FM station, which you can hear throughout much of Delaware County on 91.3 FM, is now also online. To listen to the streaming audio of the station's current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 3:24 pm
WBNG Binghamton reports that some local Delaware County dancers were tapped to march in the enormous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City yesterday:
Five young dancers from the Kennedy Performing Art Studio in Sidney strutted their stuff in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 4:18 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A 30-year-old Franklin man named Preston E. Smith has been arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle and then using it to go hunting. The press release in full:
On November 22, 2010 Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 11:22 am
According to "I LOVE DELHI, NY," the Facebook page devoted to the little town on the West Branch of the Delaware River, somebody's bogarted the town's welcome sign. Posted yesterday evening:
WHO STOLE OUR WELCOME TO DELHI SIGN?? COST IS $1200. AS... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 7:19 pm
When you hit a deer, as so many of us have in the Catskills, your first worry is instant death and dismemberment, your second is for the cost of autobody repair, and your third, maybe, is for the deer. But last week, a 25-year-old man from Mount Vision... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 - 2:40 pm
WIOX on its launch day in August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Big radio news across the Catskills today.
In Delaware and Schoharie counties, full-power WIOX station has won a $129,712 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The funds have been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 5:47 pm
New evidence has emerged in the case of Sonja Ridge, who died under suspcious circumstances over the weekend. The man who was charged with second-degree murder in connection with her death, William A. Sprague III, has been released, according to the Daily... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 - 3:29 pm
Jay Todd of Arkville was killed last night when he was struck by a car, while walking on Route 28 in Arkville Middletown.* A press release issued today by the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On Wednesday evening Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 12:19 pm
A homeowner in Hamden is missing a collection of antique powder horns, flasks, and other historical paraphernalia, some of them dating back to the 1700s, according to a press release issued today by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office. The release:
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 - 9:40 am
If you were awake around 4am this morning, you probably heard a mighty roar of wind. Reports are trickling in of some serious storm activity across the Catskills last night. NY-Alert reports that there was hail and downed trees in Ulster County this... Read more
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