Cairo
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 9, 2011 - 10:24 am
Broadband cable. Photo by Michael Coghlan, via Flickr.
Some excellent reporting by blogger and community activist Sam Pratt has prompted a story in the Daily Mail about Mid-Hudson Cablevision, which, both Pratt and the Mail report, is turning down $3.5... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 28, 2011 - 9:23 am
A stretch of Route 23B in Cairo, by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
Unlike most upstate New York towns, the Greene County town of Cairo has never had zoning laws to govern where and how development is carried out. But for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 15, 2011 - 3:09 pm
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officers have set a large trap for the bear that knocked down a Cairo woman in front of her home earlier this week, the Daily Mail reports. The first bear that is caught in the trap will be killed,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 14, 2011 - 8:47 am
The Daily Mail is reporting this morning that a black bear cruising for tasty garbage attacked a Cairo women in her driveway yesterday afternoon. The woman, who is 53, hurt her back during the encounter, and was taken to Albany Medical Center for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 2:46 pm
The Daily Mail is reporting that both a Greene County Sheriff's Office squad car and a minivan were totalled in a crash on Rte. 32 in Cairo yesterday. Interestingly, the Sheriff's Office is refusing to comment on the accident at all. Still, the newspaper... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 - 4:09 pm
He dallied awhile before coming forward, but Stephen Kirwan, of the hamlet of Purling in the town of Cairo, has finally claimed that $122 million Powerball ticket that everyone was wondering about last month.
Kirwan's identity was revealed at a press... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 9:55 am
The Daily Mail reports that a house on Mountain Avenue has been destroyed by fire -- thankfully, with no injuries, either human or animal.
Residents Joseph and Adele Spinelli could not be located after emergency personnel arrived on the scene, and there... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 9:25 am
A Catskill man who hurt his ankles while working as a corrections officer in Coxsackie was collecting workers compensation insurance for the injury while also working as a part-time police officer in Cairo, the New York State Insurance Department reported... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 7:39 pm
A trained weather spotter reporting to the National Weather Service and the good folks at WGXC saw some high water covering Rte. 145 in Cairo this afternoon, at its intersection wtih Rte. 23.
From the weather spotter at 3:06pm, via NWS's Storm Summary... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 4:34 pm
You've really got to watch your step in the mountains during hunting season. Just ask Greene County man Robert Warrings -- who, it is alleged, was shot at several times by a local sheriff's officer while tracking a bear. The Daily Mail reports:
The state... Read more