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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 8:47 am
A body lodged between logs in the Esopus Creek in Kingston was found by a boater yesterday, and nobody is sure whether it is the remains of Zachary Green, who has been missing from Saugerties since January.
The Daily Freeman and the Times Herald-Record... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Two men -- 46-year-old Clifford Banks of East Branch, and 19-year-old Dalton Hills of Fishs Eddy -- were killed on Friday evening on River Road in Colchester, when the pickup truck Banks was driving ran off the road and struck an earth embankment. A load... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 3:41 pm
Quinn Kelley, founder of Chicken Hill Farm Handmade Soaps, with Skye the Auracana. Photo by Joe Damone.
Summer in the Catskills means it's the height of craft fair season once again, and Quinn Kelley, the 15-year-old proprietor of Chicken Hill Farm... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 2:18 pm
In Delhi today, Delaware County Acting Supreme Court Justice John F. Lambert delivered a lengthy prison sentence to East Meredith resident Cody D. Fancher for his 2009 fire-setting spree that destroyed the Sidney Center United Methodist Church.
Fancher’s... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 10:21 am
Above: Former Shandaken town supervisor Peter DiSclafani trades barbs wtih Councilman Jack Jordan and current supervisor Rob Stanley at Monday's town meeting. Video by Julia Reischel.
A dispute over a misguided $2,500 check cashed by the Town of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 3:12 pm
A delivery truck headed east on Route 28 in Phoenicia yesterday afternoon caused a collision with a pickup truck driven by a local teenager, totaling the pickup and injuring its occupants. A press release from the Shandaken Police Department:
The Town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 3, 2011 - 8:54 am
Above: Alleged serial hiking trail car burglars Donna A. Nollner and Billy D. Ganoe Jr. Photo provided by the New York State Police.
A man and a woman who allegedly specialize in robbing empty vehicles parked next to Catskills hiking trails have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 4:43 pm
Deadpan quote of the week goes to Callicoon dairy farmer Adam Diehl, the subject of a story in Tuesday's Sullivan County Democrat. Here's Diehl on the apocalyptic storm that blew through his farm last week, uprooting trees, tearing shingles off roofs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 2, 2011 - 4:11 pm
Video clip about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers by filmmaker Carole Hart, maker of the documentary film For The Next Seven Generations.
In October of 2004, thirteen elders from indigenous cultures scattered around the world... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 12:29 pm
45-year-old Kerry Castello, who was facing charges related to a string of armed robberies in Massachusetts, apparently hanged himself in the Sullivan County jail on Sunday, the Mid-Hudson News reports.
When Castello was arrested on May 19, he had been a... Read more
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