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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 21, 2014 - 1:21 pm
Voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of local school budgets, and elect members to school boards.  In the five counties of our Catskills coverage area -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster -- all school budgets passed, most... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Tuesday, May. 20, 2014 - 5:10 pm
Above: Heather Williams of Pippy's Hotdog Truck greets customers in Palenville. Photo by Clancy Nolan. The geographic spread of the Catskills region creates often-daunting distances between would-be diners and their dinner plates. One solution to that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 20, 2014 - 9:44 am
Tuesday, May 20 is election day for school districts across New York State. Today, voters go to the polls to decide the fate of school budgets, elect candidates for local school boards and vote on school propositions.  Statewide, increases in school taxes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 19, 2014 - 4:10 pm
Upstate New York is notorious for its rough winters. But even for those inured to feet of snow and frozen mountain passes, the winter of 2013-14 was a brutal one, marked by long stretches of subzero temps and winter weather that lasted well into April. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 16, 2014 - 9:30 am
Above: A graphic produced Friday morning by the National Weather Service in Albany, showing widespread flood watches west of the Hudson River.  Flood watches are in effect across the Catskills region for Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, as heavy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 12, 2014 - 3:30 pm
Photo by Flickr user Mark Menzies; published under Creative Commons license. Casino developers hoping to land one of four prized licenses from New York State will have to prove that they're investing enough in the project. But although the state's minimum... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 9, 2014 - 1:50 pm
Above: A WWII plane that crash-landed at the edge of a field on North Montgomery Hollow Road in Roxbury on Friday. Photo by Lissa Harris. A small airplane with a single occupant crashed on North Montgomery Hollow Road near Hubbell Corners, in the Delaware... Read more
By D. Seiler on Monday, May. 5, 2014 - 3:23 pm
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at 1:00 p.m., at the Roxbury Library, Cornell Cooperative Extension Program Educator Tabitha Gilmore-Barnes will offer a program on budget friendly nutrition. Regular RLA Tuesday Forum attendees will provide refreshments... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 5, 2014 - 12:42 pm
Above: An injured victim being treated at the scene of this morning's bus accident on Route 17 in Ramsey, N.J. Photos by Boyd A. Loving; courtesy of the Cliffview Pilot. A flying car wheel smashed through the windshield of a Pine Hill Trailways bus bound... Read more
By Katherine Speller on Thursday, May. 1, 2014 - 1:15 pm
Who needs an Oscar? The first place winners at the Catskill Mountains Film Festival take home a home-grown version of the iconic golden statuette: the "Catty," a cat hand-carved by a Catskills woodworker out of foraged mountain birch. Left: A "Catty," the... Read more

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