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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 11:42 am
The trailer for "Windfall," the feature film being screened at this weekend's New Kingston Film Festival.
New Kingston doesn't have too many claims to fame. There's the inexplicable lone red British telephone booth sitting in the middle of a cornfield... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 31, 2011 - 9:45 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 30, 2011 - 9:17 am
Think flash mobs are only for city slickers? Think again. Close to 100 people, including a fireman and a waitress in uniform, blocked Main Street in Delhi yesterday to perform a dance routine to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. (There are at least three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 4:17 pm
Photo by Flickr user tlindenbaum.
Rural areas are going the way of the dodo, if you believe yesterday's Associated Press story about "the decline of small-town America." The article begins with a stark statistic from the 2010 Census:
Rural America now... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Above: Radar image taken at 2:47pm. National Weather Service.
See that storm over Binghamton? It's heading towards the Catskills. (So that's why it's so humid and sticky out there.) The National Weather Service has issued "severe thunderstorm watch" for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 2:57 pm
Photo of American feral pig by Flickr user Dave Govoni. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last year, we warned you: Feral pigs are coming to the Catskills, and it's not going to be pretty.
Today, a story by Reuters says that feral pigs are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
The Open Space Institute announced yesterday that the Smiley family, longtime owners of the famous Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, have agreed to sell 874 acres of farm, field and forestland in New Paltz and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 9:00 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced yesterday that, starting today, the Lower Esopus will get 10 to 15 million gallons of clean water a day from the Ashokan Reservoir.
For creekside residents below the Ashokan, who have... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 4:03 pm
Thanks to intrepid reporter Cindy Johansen, we will be posting video of the town of Olive's monthly Town Board meetings right here on our Olive town page. Johansen videoed the July 11 meeting of the Olive town board. Check out the first quarter of the... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 2:41 pm
The staff of Delaware County's Office of the Aging. Retiring director Tom Briggs is the gentleman sitting on the right. Photo via Delaware County New York website.
The Delaware County Board of Supervisors had a short docket for July -- nine... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 9:39 am
Three businessmen, including the owner of a local trucking business, were arrested recently on charges that they shipped ash timber out of Greene County, where the wood is under a quarantine because the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been found... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 9:24 am
Those trees all around you? Don't take them for granted. That's the idea behind the Catskill Forest Association's Catskill Forest Festival, a day-long celebration of all things woodsy happening this weekend in Margaretville. There will be food and beer, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 10:06 pm
Bainbridge pilot Milton Petzold crashed his Piper Comanche airplane into the Susquehanna River in Sidney this afternoon, not long after taking off from the Sidney Airport. The plane had no other passengers, and Petzold walked away from the crash.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 12:13 pm
Photo of graffiti on the new Kerhonkson bridge across the Rondout, from Terry Bernardo's Facebook page.
You can hardly blame Ulster County legislator Terry Bernardo for being mad about graffiti on the bridge across the Rondout Creek in Kerhonkson. After... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 11:07 am
Unless the state Department of Environmental Conservation makes big changes to its latest draft of gas drilling regulations, New York State is on track to ban hydraulic fracturing in and around New York City's vast, unfiltered watershed. But many... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 8:20 am
The Byrdcliffe Guild is Woodstock is trying something new: a music series featuring musicians and bands that call the Hudson Valley and the Catskills their home away from tour. They're calling it the "World Beyond the Woods" tour. From the press release:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011 - 2:22 pm
Photo of rusty mailbox by Flickr user Mandy Jansen. Published under Creative Commons license.
Today, the United States Postal Service released a list of almost 3,700 post offices across the country -- many of them in small, rural towns -- that the agency... Read more
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