Hunter
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 20, 2010 - 2:02 pm
This black bear, captured on surveillance video on Hunter Mountain a couple of weeks ago, isn't really getting anywhere in his quest for midnight munchies until around the 1:27 mark. That's when he (or she?) finds the motherlode of donut holes.
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 9:19 am
The chairman of the board of the Greene Country Industrial Development Agency has resigned in the midst of a scandal over the $175,000 bonus the IDA gave to its executive director last year. According to today's story in the Daily Mail, Paul Slutzky's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 11:04 am
Phoenicia is festooned with banners celebrating this weekend's Festival of the Voice, which starts tonight. Photo via the Festival of the Voice Facebook page.
We're skipping our blurbalicious event roundup this week to put out some fires in other parts... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 - 8:02 pm
Last weekend's Tour of the Catskills cycling race, all 160 miles of it, was grueling. Especially the Horsegate section of the course:
The video above, taken during the first road stage of the race, was shot by a member of the Boston-based cycling team... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 10:14 am
YouTube user 125sigbn somehow flew over the Mountain Jam music festival last week and posted the view on YouTube. (His profile page is a little thin on the details of how, exactly, he flies, but it looks pretty real.)
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010 - 12:10 pm
17-year-old Olivia Rose Belfiglio fell to her death Friday afternoon while hiking with friends in the Devil's Kitchen in Hunter. It's the second fatality in just over a month in the area.
From the Times Herald-Record:
Authorities said none of the hikers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 1:53 pm
An array of local and national celebrities took to the pages of the Times Herald-Record today to wish Levon Helm, who's celebrating his 70th on Wednesday, a happy birthday. Here's Simone Felice (of the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King):
Levon... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 4, 2010 - 11:40 am
No, not pigs: motorcycles. Two Wheels to Anywhere, a YouTube "motorcycle touring / reality travel show," just dedicated several of its episodes to the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association dual sport rally, which was staged at Hunter Mountain last fall. In... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Local officials in Greene County are mounting an effort to get the DEC to reconsider their decision to close the Devil's Tombstone campground. From the Windham Journal:
The campground, located amidst Route 214’s Stony Clove, has been slated for closure... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:35 am
Douglas Kalajian, one of the two writers behind The Armenian Kitchen, has fond memories of the once-large Armenian community that vacationed in the Catskills:
Maybe you think of the Catskill Mountains as the Borscht Belt, but I remember when the heights... Read more
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