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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 - 1:52 pm
The Maetreum of Cybele, a former inn in Palenville that is now the spiritual home of a Cybeline Pagan group. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A group of Pagan adherents in Palenville won a major victory in a New York State appellate court last week, when a judge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 - 3:03 pm
Steven Walker. Photo courtesy of the New York State Police.
A Wright man was arrested last week for allegedly pulling three healthy permanent teeth from the mouth of a developmentally disabled eight-year-old girl in his care.
Gallupville resident Steven... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 - 12:01 pm
An argument in the Delaware County hamlet of Fishs Eddy in the early hours of Saturday morning took a deadly turn, when a man apparently injured a woman and then took his own life.
State police responded to a report of an assault at 479 County Route 28... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: Local author Dina Falconi and her recently-published book, Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide And Wild Food Cookbook, featuring botanical illustrations by Wendy Hollender.
For three decades, Dina Falconi has been living and working on the edge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 - 8:05 pm
Left to right: Alamin McMillon, Nakota Lame and Tammy Fairbairn. Photos from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
A local mother and daughter and a Syracuse man were arrested in the tiny Delaware County hamlet of Bloomville last Thursday, after 130 bags... Read more
By Julie McMahon on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 - 5:42 pm
Above: A Catskill Mountain Railroad train heads west to Phoenicia, for the first time since the 2011 Irene floods washed out part of the railroad's track. The railroad used ticket sales to fund the rebuild, since FEMA funding to repair the track is still... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 - 10:28 am
Above: The Stamford Country Store on 2 Harper Street, which was robbed on Saturday by a masked man wielding a kitchen knife. Source: Google Street View.
As if Halloween in the Catskills weren't scary enough: In the last few days, two Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 - 1:30 pm
Above: Investigators comb through the rubble at Becker's Tire Service, a longtime Grand Gorge business destroyed by fire on Friday, September 27. Photo by Lissa Harris.
In the last month, two beloved businesses in Grand Gorge were destroyed by fire: first... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 - 9:55 am
In today's Walton Reporter is a must-read story about the case of Jeanie Groat, a Walton resident who is serving a two-week jail sentence for disorderly conduct, after cursing at an official at a horse show in 2010.
According to the Reporter, the charge... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 - 12:29 pm
Earlier this month, schoolchildren across the Catskills learned about fire safety during National Fire Prevention Week. Here's Gianna Muellerleile, daughter of Shandaken ambulance captain Rich Muellerleile, suiting up for the cause. Rich, who sometimes... Read more
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