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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 12:48 pm
Above: A slideshow of photos from the Lexington Bicentennial Parade on April 20, 2013. All photos by Donna Cavanaugh.
Happy birthday, Lexington: The Greene County town celebrated its 200th on Patriot's Day with a parade, a celebration of the town's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Over the weekend, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office released an updated list of their top ten most wanted fugitives from justice.
The ten men on the list are wanted for a wide variety of alleged offenses: assault, larceny, welfare fraud, failing to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 10:44 am
A tip on a burglary investigation has led Sullivan County police to a "treasure trove" of stolen items from multiple burglaries, the Times Herald-Record reports.
On Thursday, sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Abdool Persaud of Monticello, after a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 20, 2013 - 7:38 pm
A Climax man has been arrested after an investigation into a string of home burglaries that spanned three counties.
State police say that the suspect, 24-year-old Robert J. Giordano, was found on Friday driving a stolen vehicle on County Route 22 in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 4:11 pm
Orville Slutzky, co-founder of the Hunter Mountain ski center, family patriarch, and a well-known community figure and philanthropist, died on Thursday, April 18 at the age of 96. Hunter Mountain will hold a memorial service this Sunday, April 21.
An... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 5:39 pm
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.
The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013 - 10:05 am
A man was arrested after allegedly shooting another man in the face with an air pistol on 5th Street in Narrowsburg on Sunday evening, police say.
Narrowsburg resident Eric Hector, 48, is charged with assault in the second degree and criminal possession... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013 - 11:54 am
Eighteen runners from the Catskills region -- Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties -- were among those registered for the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, where explosions killed at least three people and injured over 140.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 2:04 pm
Catskill: Not a bunch of mountains in upstate New York. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
You've got to feel for the village of Catskill. It's forever getting confused with the Catskills -- a region that the little... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 11:05 am
Above: Filmmaker Dennis O'Clair offers a sneak peek at what's in store at the fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival.
The fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival takes as its mission “bringing the hottest names in literature to the coolest town in the... Read more
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