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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:46 am
A Cayuga County husband and wife were killed in a one-car crash in Meredith on Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 3:30pm on Turnpike Road when the driver of the 2013 Toyota, 65-year-old Barbara Secord, lost control of the car. The car ran into... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Ed Potokar, instrument-maker and consummate sonic tinkerer from Accord, shows off the Peg Leg, named in honor of Peg Leg Bates. (He was a Catskills local, too.) Potokar and friends will be making gorgeous electro-percussive noise at Roxbury's Orphic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2013 - 10:17 pm
Above: A six-acre lot on County Route 38 in Arkville destined to be the home of the Catskill Recreation Center. Source: Delaware County GIS mapping tool.
After a hiatus of several years, plans for the Catskill Recreation Center -- a community fitness... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2013 - 3:11 pm
The newly-restored front porch of Spillian, an upscale "camp for grownups" opening soon in the former Fleischmanns family estate near the eponymous village. Spillian has been forced to postpone some of their planned July programming due to construction... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 1, 2013 - 11:36 am
Trailbuilders of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference spent their Saturday rebuilding a bridge on the Long Path in Platte Clove. For more photos of the rebuild -- and an idea of how badly the bridge needed an upgrade -- see the NY-NJTC's photo album... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 28, 2013 - 1:52 pm
Above: A Poughkeepsie Journal video about the re-opening of the newly restored Rosendale Trestle.
Rail trail lovers, rejoice: On Saturday, June 29, the Rosendale Trestle, a 118-year-old span over the Rondout Creek, will be reopened to public walking... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 28, 2013 - 10:46 am
The future is here, cat sold separately. About 8,000 people were chosen by Google in a social media competition to get the chance to test-drive Glass, the company's much-hyped, face-mounted, picture-taking web gadget. One of them was the Daily Freeman's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 27, 2013 - 10:08 pm
Two years after the Irene and Lee floods ravaged the Schoharie Valley, there's still a lot of work to be done to make the valley whole.
But there's also a lot to celebrate: Across the region, farmers' fields that were torn up by floodwaters are now green... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 27, 2013 - 10:48 am
Andes's newest business is looking pretty green. Photo by "Story Laurie" McIntosh, who writes: "Morena of Grayson's Organics, selling fresh garlic scapes, salad greens and baby garlic to Annette, a happy customer. The farm store is at 27 Delaware Ave.,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2013 - 4:47 pm
The Andes Central School Class of 2013. Photo from the district's Facebook page.
Last weekend, the hills echoed to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," as graduation ceremonies were held in schools large and small around the Catskills region.
The... Read more