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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2013 - 11:58 pm
Above: Work begins in earnest at the Phoenicia Library this week, gutted by fire in March of 2011 and currently occupying a temporary space on Ava Maria Drive. According to a newsletter from library director Liz Potter, restoration work on the building is... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2013 - 9:05 am
The young ones are the most voracious. A revenant reveler at the 2012 Rosendale Zombie Festival; photo by Debora Lyons.
Rosendale will be one dead festival town this Saturday afternoon -- the walking dead, that is. Residents and visitors will don their... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 23, 2013 - 2:11 pm
It's that time of year once again. Photo taken in Monticello on September 18 by John of Catskills Photography; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Sunday marked the official arrival of autumn, and brought some cooler weather along with it.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 20, 2013 - 3:08 pm
A 50-year-old man was killed late Thursday night when he skateboarded into the path of a state police cruiser on Route 23A in the village of Tannersville.
According to a New York State Police statement issued Friday, 50-year-old Bernard Hamilton of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 19, 2013 - 12:05 am
The Internet: It really is a series of tubes. Photo of data cable by Flickr user Arild Nybø; published under Creative Commons license.
A long-awaited project to bring high-speed broadband internet and cable televison to some of the most rural towns in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 12, 2013 - 10:53 am
In the unlikely event that you've lost power and are still able to read this post, keep your fridge door shut, say officials at Delaware County Public Health Services, who sent out a press release this morning warning that food can spoil quickly when the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Sep. 6, 2013 - 12:25 pm
Drink deep of the delights of the written word all weekend long at the Hobart Book Village’s Festival of Women Writers, where you can plunge into literature de la femme for three glorious days of immersion in the company of writers from far and wide for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 6, 2013 - 10:07 am
Update, 7pm: The Daily Freeman reported Friday afternoon that 90-year-old Elizabeth Askue, a well-known member of the Hurley community, was found dead in a wooded area near her home.
New York State Police released a statement later in the day:
"On... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013 - 5:18 pm
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 - 11:06 am
Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.
The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family... Read more
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