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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 12:46 pm
The Mountain Eagle has a story today on an unnamed 11-year-old Jefferson boy who was lost in the woods for six hours on Monday -- and ended up home safe and sound, thanks to a team of rescuers and two good dogs named Casey and Crier.
“We were just... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 7:39 pm
A trained weather spotter reporting to the National Weather Service and the good folks at WGXC saw some high water covering Rte. 145 in Cairo this afternoon, at its intersection wtih Rte. 23.
From the weather spotter at 3:06pm, via NWS's Storm Summary... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 5:00 pm
In Denning, Jennifer Grimes reports (with video!) that Sawmill Road has become impassable:
The flood waters coming off the Neversink and crossing Sawmill were already too deep for my Audi. But renters staying at The Lodge, hunters up for the week, came to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 12:51 pm
A film crew from WTEN Albany and a photographer from the Catskill Moutain News were on hand on Monday in Arkille as over 100 people gathered to protest the Department of Environmental Protection's layoffs at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center.
The Daily Star... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:32 am
*Note: This post's been updated (and the headline changed as well). Read the whole thing to hear the DEP's response to accusations that they're a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of driftwood-hoarders. Maybe there's a happy ending to this sad little story after all... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 4:34 pm
You've really got to watch your step in the mountains during hunting season. Just ask Greene County man Robert Warrings -- who, it is alleged, was shot at several times by a local sheriff's officer while tracking a bear. The Daily Mail reports:
The state... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 2:37 pm
So says the National Weather Service, which has issued a flood watch for much of New York State, including Sullivan, Delaware, and Otsego counties. The NWS office in Binghamton had special warnings for the Catskills, and anyone living near the West Branch... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 8:50 am
Peter Manning, the Regional Planner for the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, has sent us some more details on those Smart Growth grants that were announced yesterday. (He stresses that the plans for the money, which were first drafted... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 11:21 am
Accord resident Kevin Chronister, 46, has been arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly trying to burn a 9-year-old with a lit cigarette. A press release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Department:
Deputies from the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 - 11:11 am
The Daily Star has the details.
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