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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Sidney, NY Town Meeting - Nov. 4, 2010 from Haqqani OSMANLI on Vimeo.
The town of Sidney's plan to move a Sufi cemetery and the two bodies buried there splashed into the national news cycle in September. Two months later, the scandal is expanding to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 10:49 am
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is resorting to a subpoena to get engineering firm Halliburton to reveal its secret recipe for hydraulic fracturing, multiple news agencies are reporting this morning. The order is part of the EPA's effort to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 9:22 am
To all veterans from the Catskill Mountains, living and dead: A deep and heartfelt thank you.
Looking for information on Veteran's Day celebrations around the region? A few links for you:
-The Times Herald-Record has a special section today, with listings... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Bat skull and remains in a site affected by White-Nose Syndrome. Photo by Ann Froschauer for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The bad news about bats just keeps getting worse. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation announced today... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 2:05 pm
A missing person alert for Alice Hall, an 83-year-old woman from Franklin, was issued this morning but then quickly cancelled when she turned up at home safely.
Hall's family reported Hall missing after she was last seen asking for directions to Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Phil Brown, who pens the Adirondack Dispatches blog for the Times Union, had a great post on Monday about two accomplished "ski mountaineers," Mike Whelan and Ron Konowitz, who have teamed up to make a mini-documentary about skiing down Slide Mountain:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 9:08 am
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 3:40 pm
This just in: At their last meeting on November 2, the Catskill Watershed Corporation voted to make a $700,000 low-interest loan to the Hurley-based Pan American Dance Foundation to buy and refurbish the ailing Woodstock Playhouse.
This spring, the iconic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 11:34 am
Do frackers have to get permits to inject diesel fuel into gas wells? The EPA says yes -- a position that's come under industry attack, via a lawsuit that's currently working its way through federal court.
Gas drillers using hydraulic fracturing... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
Two people were killed in a two-car accident on Rte. 23 in Davenport yesterday during the afternoon's sudden heavy snowstorm.
The State Police have released little information about the accident, and the names of the two victims are not known. The police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 9:20 am
After a month of detective work, the State Police out of Ellenville think they've caught a copper mastermind. On Sunday, they arrested 46-year-old Bradley Snyder of Wawarsing for allegedly stealing stripping four Ellenville cottages of $19,000-worth of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 4:45 pm
Above, a photo of snow falling in Davenport, from reader Mike Wilkie, via Facebook: "About a 1/2 inch on the ground here in Davenport. It is really coming down now."
This is turning into quite a white-out. The National Weather Service office in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 12:29 pm
The village of Fleischmanns has won a legal battle over its right to foreclose on a long-shuttered movie theater in the center of town.
On October 21, a five-judge panel of the Third Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 9:26 am
Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently captured photographic evidence of anti-fracking graffiti taggers in Livingston Manor.
Speaking of fracking: An anti-drilling group called Action Otsego is planning a protest this Thursday, near a hydrofractured... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 - 8:21 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. To see a larger version of this cartoon, click here.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 - 1:01 pm
State Troopers arresting Molly Martel on Thursday night. Photo provided by the NY State Police.
A 27-year-old New Hampshire woman who is suspected of stabbing a woman to death on Tuesday in Manchester, New Hampshire was arrested at the Colonial Motel in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 - 8:20 am
21-year-old Christopher A. Depew was arrested on Thursday, allegedly because he stole a diamond engagement ring from a Port Ewen person for whom Depew worked as a home health aid, according to a press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. For... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 5:00 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Thursday evening Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested and charged two seventeen year old Walton youths following an investigation into a Town of Walton burglary.
The youths were both... Read more
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