High Falls
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 11:39 am
Willie Janeway, a Department of Environmental Conservation official who heads the agency's Region 3 in the Hudson Valley and lower Catskills, is leaving for a nonprofit job in the high peaks of the Adirondacks.
The Adirondack Council, a prominent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 11:31 am
Photo of L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle by Flickr user Keary O. Published under Creative Commons license.
County governments across upstate New York are weighing in against New York State's new gun control law, the SAFE Act. By the time the dust settles on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 10:00 pm
St. Valentine, it might be remembered, got into a heap of trouble for marrying couples in defiance of the government, which had decreed that young men remain single so that they’d make better soldiers for the state. No matter your feelings about Hallmark-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 1:16 am
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 11:49 am
Photo of New York Cardinal-Archbishop Timothy Dolan, circa 2009. Via Wikimedia Commons.
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by announcing that he would resign on February 28. As the New York Times noted in a front-page story, he will be the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 - 8:45 am
Weather advisories are in effect across the Catskills this morning, as snow and freezing rain make for a slick commute on local roads. The slippery stuff is expected to shift over to rain by noon.
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 - 9:19 pm
Above: A Buddha looking serene this morning in Olivebridge under a new 6-inch cap of snow. Thanks to Dona Marie for the photo.
This morning, people around the Catskills were asking: Where's Nemo? The wrath of Friday's snowstorm spared us, for the most... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 - 10:05 am
Above: A snowstorm forecast from the Weather Channel broadcast on Thursday morning. From the Weather Channel's YouTube channel.
A nor'easter in the forecast for Friday and Saturday -- dubbed "Nemo" by the Weather Channel -- promises to bury upstate New... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 - 2:42 pm
The following is an open letter to Ulster County Executive Mike Hein from Harry G. Jameson III, the Chairman of the Catskill Mountain Railroad Company. Jameson submitted this letter as a letter to the editor. For other letters about the future of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 - 1:18 pm
Photo of Sean Eldridge taken December 14, 2012. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Sean Eldridge may be best known to the national press as "Chris Hughes's husband" -- the guy whose high-profile marriage to the wealthy Facebook co-founder and New Republic publisher... Read more
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