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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 - 12:35 pm
A fire at an Olivebridge home led to the arrests of two local men on Monday. Police say the two stole guns, motorcycles and other items, then set the home and its garage on fire to cover up the crime.
On Monday, state police responded to a home at 622... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 - 1:34 pm
Above: Sunset over a Middleburgh field. Photo by Flickr user A Man Called ACME; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Happy Columbus Day Weekend, Catskills. There's plenty to do this weekend around the mountains: Fiddlers in Roxbury, old-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 - 11:41 am
Photos courtesy of the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
After a year-long investigation, Delaware County police have made three arrests in the case of a 2012 armed home invasion and robbery in the town of Tompkins.
Arrested on Tuesday, on sealed grand... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 - 10:28 am
On Friday, October 11, crowds (and food trucks) will start to gather in Kingston’s Stockade in mid-afternoon, while the Kirkland Hotel buzzes with joyous and purposeful chaos. At 5:45pm, it’s time to strike up the band: a surreal and beautiful mob of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 - 2:14 pm
Above: Georgianna Lepke of Neversink passes the CWC gavel to Michael Triolo of Stamford. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Watershed Corporation.
The board of the Catskill Watershed Corporation, a nonprofit governed mostly by elected officials from the New... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 - 1:48 pm
Mmmm, bacon. A sampling of what the Stamford Smokehouse, opening soon in the former Home Slice Deli, will have to offer. Photo from the Facebook page of NY Farm 2 Door, a mobile butcher shop whose owners are behind Stamford's newest eatery.
Two local food... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 30, 2013 - 1:08 pm
So that's how they pick those things up. Above: Lazy Crazy Acres, cow-to-cone gelato makers in Arkville, make hay while the sun shines.
Happy Monday, Catskills. We're just about at the midpoint of leaf turning this week, according to the foliage spotters... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 27, 2013 - 2:18 pm
Above: An Arkville Fire Department truck at the scene of a fire at Becker's Tire Service on Route 30 in Grand Gorge. Photo by Lissa Harris.
A massive fire that broke out just past midnight on Thursday night gutted Becker's Tire Service, a longstanding... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 27, 2013 - 11:52 am
Photo of empty post office box by Flickr user Bryan Alexander. Published under Creative Commons license.
In news, timing is critical. As the old reporter's saying goes: Yesterday's news wraps today's fish.
No wonder River Reporter managing editor Jane... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 26, 2013 - 10:36 am
Ride safe, Catskills: Two local skateboarders have collided with cars in the last week, one of whom was killed. Photo of Jart skateboard by Flickr user Steffen Ramsaier; published under Creative Commons license.
On Tuesday, a Long Island teenager on a... Read more
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