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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 - 1:29 pm
A two-car accident on Route 32 in Newburgh at 7:05pm on Monday night claimed the life of 15-year-old Plattekill resident Alana Tadry, left four other people injured, and split an Audi entirely in half.
The Times Herald-Record describes the accident as "... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 - 4:36 pm
Photo: Signs along Route 17 blown down by superstorm Sandy. Photo by Catskills Photography in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
It's that strange week right before Thanksgiving when no one's celebrating or doing much of anything, preserving energy for the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 - 3:21 pm
Update: The Marlboro Police Department has cancelled the Amber Alert for Frederick McCluskey at 3:29pm. The Freeman reports that the boy is safe and his father is in custody.
An Amber Alert was issued Friday morning for four-year-old Frederick McCluskey,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 - 1:23 am
Above: The Holy Innocents Church in Halcottsville. Photo courtesy of Bishop Francisco Betancourt.
A public outcry has erupted in a tight-knit Catskills community over a local interfaith council's reluctance to allow an independent Catholic church to join... Read more
By Jason Dole on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 - 11:24 am
Photo: An upstate DEP crew works to pump out Manhattan's Battery Underpass, which was submerged under 12 feet of Sandy floodwaters at the height of the storm surge. Photo dated Nov. 1, courtesy of NYC DEP.
Since Sandy made landfall, local firefighters,... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 - 2:30 pm
Editor's note: This column ran in the Watershed Post on July 8, 2011. It's still good advice, and we're resurrecting it, in light of a spate of carbon monoxide poisonings and deaths around the region. Earlier this week, two Shokan residents were found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 - 12:45 pm
Above: A close-up shot of the lion figurehead at the bow of the Half Moon, a replica of the ship Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name in 1609. Photo by Katy Silberger; published under Creative Commons license.
In the Times Union today: A... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 1:37 pm
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Delaware County sheriff's deputies responded to a call in the village of Franklin and found a man and a woman dead inside a home.
Investigator Karl Vagts of the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said that their... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 - 12:26 pm
Above: Detail from a National Weather Service weather forecast map issued at 3:53 am today. Source: NWS Binghamton website.
Forecasters are tracking a nor'easter that looks likely to dump snow and sleet across a wide swath of the northeastern U.S.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 - 4:45 pm
Local developer Dean Gitter is selling his stake in Shandaken's Emerson Hotel to co-owner Emily Fisher.
In a press release issued Tuesday by the Emerson, Gitter said that the sale would allow him to focus on building the Belleayre Resort:
“Emily and I... Read more
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