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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 - 10:19 am
Adam Bosch at the Times Herald-Record has the full story behind the panic-causing disappearance of Moische Dressner yesterday from his Jewish summer camp in Wawarsing. As it turns out, Dressner just didn't like camp, so he ran away. Bosch writes:
Police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:18 pm
Tonight, Ann Epner, the program and community arts funding coordinator of the Roxbury Arts Group, announced on her Facebook page that she is leaving RAG to become the new executive director of the Pine Hill Community Center, which will lose its current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 1:43 pm
The Shandaken Town Board at Monday's meeting. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Monday, over the objections of one of the town's assessors, the Shandaken town board voted to slash its share of health benefits for town employees.
The board voted 4-1 to cut the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:51 am
Moshe Dresdner/Moishe Dressner. Photo via the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
3pm update: Moshe Dresdner, or Moishe Dressner, has been found in a Staten Island mall, according to The Catskill Scoop:
The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office and Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 11:06 am
This Friday, the rock-soul-folk band Two Dark Birds is holding a benefit concert for the Woodland Playhouse preschool in Phoenicia. The band's front man, Steve Koester, emailed us about why the preschool, which his daughter has attended, it so great:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 9:59 am
Above: A graph from yesterday's IDA report showing IDA tax breaks and job growth and loss by county. Greene County, in dark green, is picked out for having job loss despite giving out large IDA tax breaks.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 1:26 pm
Photo: Catskill Farms's Cottage 18. From Catskill Farms website.
Stop me if you've heard this one: New York City contractor moves to the sticks of Sullivan County, starts a home-building business on a shoestring, and begins buying land to build second... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 1:10 pm
Last Thursday, Frederick J. Neroni, a lawyer who runs a law office in Delhi, was stripped of his law license by a five-judge panel of the Third Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court for "fraudulent conduct prejudicial... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011 - 8:54 am
Quick: Where is Bedell, NY?
According to the Historical Society for the Town of Middletown's Tin Horn blog, there used to be an enormous sign with letters 20-feet high answering that question for strangers approaching the intersection of Little Red Kill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 1:06 pm
Photo of snowboards at Belleayre by Flickr user Steven Kreuser. Published under Creative Commons license.
Should the Belleayre Mountain ski center, currently run by the New York State Department of Conservation, be turned over to a quasi-private authority... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 9:23 am
Four people from Ulster County died in a boating accident on the Hudson River yesterday, and two more people barely escaped. The accident was horrific enough to make the papers across the state.
News accounts report that six people were riding in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 - 8:48 am
Above: Giant hogweed. Photo by Flickr user helena.40proof
The nasty giant hogweed, an invasive plant species which grows well above head-height and has sap that can burn your skin, is cropping up disturbingly near the Catskills, according to the Times... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 10, 2011 - 10:11 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 9, 2011 - 10:13 am
Roundup, a common herbicide, was sprayed this week along roads running next to the Pepacton Reservoir, which supplies much of New York City's vast supply of unfiltered drinking water.
Our columnist Ellen Verni sent us a photo of a notice posted on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 4:30 pm
Video: Session at Furlong's Pub, Irish Arts Week, 2007.
For decades, records and digital downloads have trained us to be passive consumers of music. But for most of human history, music has been a collaborative effort, with plenty of sharing, jamming, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 2:13 pm
Astute WP reader Laurie McIntosh alerted us to a fun fact today: In the past week, National Public Radio has been crawling with Catskillians.
Case in point: David Krajicek, front man of Blues Maneuver, a Catskills band that features a horn section to die... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 1:55 pm
Photo of red fox by Flickr user digitalprimate. Published under Creative Commons license.
The Sullivan County Democrat reports:
On July 4, Town of Liberty Animal Control Officer Joanne Gerow received a call that an unidentified animal had attacked... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Friday, Jul. 8, 2011 - 10:03 am
Image by Flickr user David B. Gleason.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odorless, and poisonous gas found in the fumes of burning fuel that contains carbon -- fuels such as wood, charcoal, fuels used in a camp stove or lantern, or the gasoline used... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 7, 2011 - 5:03 pm
A large crowd of people demonstrated in Albany today to protest the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's decision, announced last week, to recommend that hydraulic fracturing proceed in New York state.
The Journal News' Albany Watch blog... Read more
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