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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 - 10:45 am
A fuel tanker and a dump truck crashed on 9W in Esopus around 8:30 this morning, causing a fire that gutted a nearby business and reportedly caused injuries. The Times Herald-Record reports:
The two trucks apparently collided and went partially off the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:40 pm
David Knudsen, a Sullivan County realtor and blogger, addresses the issue of how to talk about real estate in a county that might soon become the home of multiple gas wells:
One of the problems we face at the moment in Sullivan County is that the media... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:19 pm
Current deputy mayor Patrick O'Donnell is stepping down "within six weeks," according to the Times Herald-Record, and so far the only person to express interest in the job is Pete Healey, a nemesis of the current mayor:
One potential candidate has stepped... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:19 am
From the AP this morning: A tanker carrying chlorine gas crashed near Exit 21 on the New York Thruway, near Catskill, around 1:50 am. The spill closed I-87 northbound for almost seven hours:
Sgt. Michael Kopp says it wasn't immediately known how much... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:08 am
Daily News correspondent Paul Schultz spends a day fishing the East and West branches of the Delaware and talking up the virtues of summer fishing in the Catskills:
The good news, though, is that three streams in Sullivan and Delaware Counties — the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 - 10:53 pm
Liberty writer and photographer Akira Ohiso snaps some evidence that the corporate overlords of ShopRite have been doing their demographic research on Sullivan County.
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 - 6:34 pm
Introducing: The brand-spankin'-new Shandaken Bugle, just launched yesterday by a couple who, though they would prefer to remain anonymous, hint that they might have bylines in their past somewhere.
The staff of two here at The Shandaken Bugle decided... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 - 11:40 am
Remember Rev. Mother Cathryn Platine and the Maetreum of Cybele? We ran a story on the Maetreum's property-tax battle with the town of Catskill last month. Today, the Catskill Daily Mail has a feature on their brewing court battle -- and why its outcome... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 - 2:09 pm
In the town of Shawangunk, you can't have a farm on less than ten acres, according to the town's zoning law. That means that Linda Borghi, who wants to do intensive biodynamic farming on her 2.7 acre plot on Saxton Rd., is out of luck, according to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 - 1:11 pm
What kind of person intentionally runs over a mother swan while her cygnets look on in horror? Especially on a golf course called the Lazy Swan? (The mama swan survived.)
Via the Daily Freeman.



