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By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 4:39 pm
Editor's note: Twenty-two-year-old Josh Turan was killed in motorcycle accident in Delhi on Saturday, May 12. This letter is from his uncle, Dave Turan. -- Julia Reischel
Dear Editor, Friends and Neighbors,
On Saturday evening, May 12, 2012, around 10 pm... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 4:08 pm
When is a fresh peach front-page news? When it's the first one for sale in town in almost nine months. Reader Sharon Skoble Goldstein took these photos today at the re-opening of Freshtown, a Margaretville supermarket that has been closed since the Irene... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 3:45 pm
Dear Editor,
We, Tony Fletcher and Laurie Osmond, would like to thank the voters of the Onteora Central School District for re-electing us to the School Board on Tuesday, May 15. We appreciate the vote of confidence.
The election was ultimately quite... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 3:01 pm
Floyd Guernsey III, owner of Guernsey's Schoharie Nursery, smiles for a TV camera at the nursery's grand re-opening ceremony on May 11. Photo by Donald Edmonds.
Like many of the towns in the path of the raging Schoharie Creek, the town of Schoharie took a... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 - 1:51 pm
Burgers-to-go, tasty treats and handmade crafts will once again be popping up for a quick market down at the Stamford railroad station. Open from 4:30-6pm, the market will feature brews from Tundra, pickles from the Pickle Man in Hunter and all the local... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:08 pm
One of the Freshtown's iconic wooden bears looks out over a row of grocery carts, lined up and ready for throngs of Margaretville shoppers to descend in the morning. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Margaretville's been waiting a long time for its grocery store to... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 4:00 pm
Tony Lanza, the longtime superintendent of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, was dismissed from his position today.
Belleayre Mountain is currently run by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which is preparing to hand over the... Read more
By Andrew Wyrich on Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 11:21 am
Photo by Flickr user warrantedarrest; published under Creative Commons license.
State police seized “several ounces” of marijuana on Saturday after responding to a custody issue on Sagendort Corners Road in Howes Cave, and sent a growing operation’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 5:27 pm
Above: A Daily Freeman video about today's bear sighting at a Hurley elementary school.
It must have been tater tot day: The Freeman reports that a bear was spotted foraging in a dumpster at the Ernest C. Myer elementary school in Hurley this afternoon.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 3:42 pm
One of Route 28's funkiest attractions: A '47 Dodge-turned-rocket-ship from Steve Heller's Fabulous Furniture in Boiceville. Photo by Flickr user reclaimedhome; published under Creative Commons license.
Route 28 may not be an official scenic byway (yet... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 12:49 pm
You've probably seen this little blue flower before, but odds are you haven't really noticed it. Catskills Photography gets a closer look at what looks to us like Veronica persica, also known as bird's eye or Persian speedwell. This little blue flower is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 11:39 am
Above: A small customer visits the Cheese Barrel on its first day in its renovated old location, Saturday May 19. Photo by Julia Reischel.
The Cheese Barrel, a cafe and gourmet grocer on Main Street Margaretville, was inundated by Tropical Storm Irene's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 21, 2012 - 9:23 am
Photo: Marcellinno Ruiz. From NYSP.
A Wallkill man, 60-year-old Keith Marroon, was killed on Bates Lane in Shawangunk on Sunday when a pick-up truck towing a utility trailer struck the bicycle he was riding.
The driver of the truck, 67-year-old Wallkill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 20, 2012 - 1:30 pm
Summer is on its way in. Memorial Day is a week from tomorrow, and our special Memorial Day Guide is out. We'll be posting stories and events to it all week, so come back early and often to plan your weekend.
One of the big stories of this year's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 20, 2012 - 1:06 am
Memorial Day marks the start of the busy season in the Catskills. Local Main Streets rouse themselves from their spring slumbers and get ready for the summer tourist season with parties, parades, sales, events, shows and festivals.
This year's Memorial... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 6:26 pm
Above: Cycling on some Catskills roads. Photo via the Catskill Mountain Cycling Club Facebook page.
Cyclists who ride the Catskills know this is a perfect place to get on the bike for a quick 20-miler. And what better time to do it than this Memorial Day... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 5:25 pm
Above: The Pepacton Reservoir in August 2011, before it opened for public recreational paddling. Photo by S58y, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Aaron Bennett is the consultant to the Enhanced Recreational Access Project for the upper East Branch of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:43 pm
Photo of the Pepacton Reservoir, taken near the East Delaware Tunnel on Tuesday, May 15. The photo shows yellow rubber booms surrounding the area of a small oil spill.
The source of a mysterious oil spill discovered on New York City's Pepacton Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 4:05 pm
Photo of Opus 40 by Flickr user Bluesguy From NY. Published under Creative Commons license.
This weekend, the Catskills' most enduring monument to one man's artistic vision, the six-and-a-half-acre Saugerties bluestone sculpture known as Opus 40,... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, May. 18, 2012 - 12:59 pm
Above: Christine Leas and Mary Buchen in fetching hats planting peonies at the new community garden in Denning. Photo by Ed Mues, used by permission. More where that came from at the Denning Denizen.
After a generally busy news week fraught with election... Read more
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