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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 4:10 pm
As if leaving bags of blood-soaked bandages around the cemetery for animals to gnaw on wasn't bad enough. The Mayer Berger saga continues:
Berger drove to the cemetery in a vehicle bearing custom license plates "NY OCME."
Berger said it stood for "New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 3:19 pm
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Ulster County police arrested an allegedly-drunk driver in Esopus on a truly staggering litany of vehicular charges, after his '97 Ford entered the wrong lane on 9W and collided head-on with another car. From a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 2:40 pm
The Mountain Biking World Cup held over the weekend in Windham was a blast, reports Catskills Cycling, which was there to watch the whole thing. Not only did the proprietor of the local cycling website have videos and finish-line photos of the winners of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 12:54 pm
Last Friday, a major leak in the Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline -- a propane pipeline that's eight inches in diameter and part of a network spanning some 9,200 miles along the Eastern seaboard -- forced the evacuation of over 100 people in Schoharie... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 11:01 am
It might not sound like a big deal, but today's dedication of the Catskill Interpretive Kiosk in Mt. Tremper is a cause for celebration, because it's a concrete step towards getting a long-desired Catskills Interpretive Center built on the same spot.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 9:43 am
That's the question the Times Herald-Record's Deborah Medenbach is asking:
The film commission talks about bolstering the local supply of set construction workers with some training programs, but two big questions loom: Will there be enough work to make... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 9:24 am
It's clear that Big Chuck D'Imperio meant well when he penned this column for the Daily Star yesterday. But man, what a misbegotten headline for a story:
Area had its fair share of female "crack makers"
So, what's the article about? Not, as you might... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 4:48 pm
A new 14' Raven float rod. A basket full of flies. A beautiful Sunday on the Esopus. What could be better?
Unfortunately for Paul over at the Angling Journal, many of the region's most exquisitely irritating individuals apparently thought so too. While... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Erica Goldson. the valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School's 2010 graduating class, didn't give your standard valedictory speech in June. Instead, she decried the educational system for its flaws and called herself a "slave" of the system, a move... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 10:26 am
Another ATV mishap, although so far, this one isn't fatal: 19-year-old Matthew Sanok was riding in the town of Thompson on Saturday when he hit a pile of rocks and was thrown from the vehicle, reports the Times Herald-Record.
Earlier: Catskill 15-year-... Read more
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