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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 10:54 am
Across New York, we're getting the kind of cold that you don't see that often. In the Catskills, there were warnings of wind chills of 20 to 35 degrees below zero last night -- the kind of temps that could kill you if you stay outside too long.
In Sushan... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 - 10:17 am
A pagan group that wants the town of Catskill to recognize it as a religious organization may lose its Palenville home before the end of the year.
The Maetreum of Cybele, a pagan community that owns the former Central House hotel on Rte. 23A, has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 - 10:57 am
This week, the Woodstock Times profiles the little hamlet of Pine Hill, which is currently mustering its few hundred residents in a community-wide effort to get listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.
Attracting tourism to Pine Hill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 3:01 pm
Linda Norris, an independent museum professional based in Treadwell, first set foot in Ukraine in the dead of winter two years ago. One of the first things she noticed was that it wasn't that different from January in the Catskills.
Over the months since... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 - 12:06 pm
For the nine million people who drink New York City water, the city buying a few thousand acres of upstate land each year hardly registers as news. But in the towns whose fields and forests make up New York City's million-acre Catskill/Delaware watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - 2:27 pm
The Mountain Eagle had coverage today of last Thursday's Board of Education meeting in Stamford, which reportedly became an impromptu protest of a popular music teacher's firing from Stamford Central School.
Pamela West-FinkleAccording to the article,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 12:19 pm
The Times Herald-Record reports that St. Cabrini -- a home for troubled girls in Esopus, founded in 1890 by St. Frances Cabrini's Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- is looking to build something new on its 600-acre, $4.2 million Hudson waterfront... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 - 9:27 am
Timothy BirchallOn Saturday, the State Police arrested 28-year-old Timothy S. Birchall of Ellenville for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in Warwarsing four years ago.
The press release offers few details about the investigation, but... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 5:02 pm
Image: Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Today on Economix, the New York Times's economics blog, Harvard professor Edward Glaeser stakes out a controversial proposition -- controversial, that is, among non-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Hydraulic fracturing is shaping up to be one of the big dramas of our newly-minted 112th U.S. Congress, and the various actors are already hinting at how the debate will unfold.
President Barack Obama's administration has hinted that gas drilling could... Read more
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