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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 25, 2013 - 2:58 pm
State police have released little information in the case of Cairo police chief Christopher Sprague, who was arrested last Wednesday on felony charges of evidence tampering. But a couple of enterprising reporters at the Albany Times-Union have turned to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 25, 2013 - 11:51 am
Photo: Langan Funeral Home website.
A Schoharie man studying at SUNY Oneonta was found dead in his off-campus apartment on Thursday evening, according to several local news accounts.
22-year-old Mark de Roziere was found around 9pm in his East Street... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 22, 2013 - 5:17 pm
Above: Hobart Fire Department pipers and drummers at the first annual Delhi St. Patrick's Day Parade, in 2011. Photo from the event's Facebook page.
In Ireland, they celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17. In the Catskills, the party goes on for weeks. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 22, 2013 - 10:47 am
A 14-year-old student at the Rondout Valley High School was arrested Thursday for allegedly making a threat to bomb the Marbletown Elementary School, in a case police say is unrelated to previous threats made to the school.
On Thursday, the Rondout... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 22, 2013 - 10:21 am
The chief of police in the Greene County town of Cairo has been arrested on felony charges, in what state police say is a case of evidence tampering.
A New York State Police statement has little specific information about the case, but states that 48-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013 - 2:13 pm
A bomb threat targeting the Marbletown Elementary School was discovered in the Rondout Valley High School today, forcing an evacuation of students in the elementary school to the Stone Ridge Community Center.
From a post on the Facebook page of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 - 2:30 pm
Photo by Flickr user Keith Ivey. Published under Creative Commons license.
Upstate New Yorkers living under the sway of the state's littlest governments go to the polls today, to elect new mayors and village boards or give the incumbents another two years... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 - 10:54 am
Nope, it's not a yellowing photograph exhumed from a family attic: This shot was taken on March 7 by photographer James McCracken, who climbed Slide Mountain with his friend Marshall Rudd.
A late-winter hike along the 6.8 mile loop to the summit of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 11:16 am
Hiding in the bucolic Delaware County landscape: A burgeoning problem of drug dealing and addiction-fueled crime. Photo of tractor-crossing sign sporting a few bullet holes taken in Bloomville by photographer Mark Zilberman; shared in the Watershed Post's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 - 10:04 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a Saturday evening car crash on Route 42 in Fallsburg claimed the life of an 18-year-old Woodbourne resident, after the car she was riding in struck a tree:
Police say Franseca Torres, 18, was killed and a second... Read more