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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 - 1:16 pm
Above: Doug McLaurine and Robin Factor, owners and founders of Roxbury General, stand in front of the building that will soon house the town's newest Main Street business. Photo by Suzanna Finley; published with permission.
There's no denying it: Roxbury... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 - 10:26 am
A Pine Hill man who was charged with assaulting his neighbor with a knife in 2012 is back in Ulster County jail, arrested over the weekend on charges of harassment.
Arrested on Saturday evening was 54-year-old Kenneth Fazzina of Pine Hill, according to a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 11:07 pm
Still life with fence post. Photos (top and bottom) by Walter Putrycz.
Snowy owls are creatures of the tundra, and a rare sight this far south of the Arctic Circle. But this winter, the ghost-white birds have been turning up across the Northeastern U.S... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 10:16 pm
Two young Saugerties residents were arrested on drug and weapons charges on Wednesday afternoon, January 8, after a multi-agency narcotics investigation found over 100 bags of heroin, black-market pharmaceuticals, scales and drug packaging material, a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 12:54 pm
Above: Middleburgh's long-defunct ice skating rink, now operating again thanks to some ingenuity and this week's deep freeze. Photo posted on Facebook by Middleburgh mayor Matthew Avitabile.
It's been ten years since anyone cut a figure eight on the ice... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 12:24 pm
Above: A chilly early-morning scene in the Schoharie County town of Esperance, taken Sunday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME. It's about to get chillier, as a front of Arctic air sends temperatures plunging across the Northeast. Photo shared in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 11:36 am
On Friday, New York State Police troopers announced the arrests of three Greene County residents on burglary charges in several incidents.
In one incident, which occurred the day before New Year's Eve, someone broke into the Jefferson Heights Pharmacy in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014 - 2:01 pm
Thousands of households in rural Delaware County lost power during the early morning hours on Saturday, January 4, in a NYSEG power outage that struck on the same night as a brutal cold snap.
The outage struck over 4,000 of NYSEG's customers in the county... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 - 2:35 pm
Three local residents and a dog were drowned in two separate accidents in Delaware County this week, the New York State Police announced Thursday morning. In both incidents, the victims apparently fell through thin ice and succumbed to hypothermia.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 - 11:33 am
Left: Photo of Barry Renert from the Cooperstown Police Department.
Shots were fired this morning inside the 7th Inning Stretch store at 137 Main Street, New York State Police have announced. Police have asked the public to stay away from the area while... Read more
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