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By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012 - 9:10 am
Above: A Halloween display at the Catskill Mountain Country Store in Windham, photographed by Flickr user JuneNY in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
This weekend, as we wait to see what Hurricane Sandy may bring to us next week, is the perfect time to get... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 3:14 pm
While executing a search warrant at a house at 349 Bandcamp Road on Thursday, Saugerties police stumbled across a "sophisticated" indoor growing operation for pot and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Two people have been arrested on felony drug charges: 24-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 - 3:30 pm
Bertha Rogers, a well-known poet in the region and the founder of the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Franklin, was badly hurt in a car accident on Route 6 in the town of Woodbury on Tuesday.
According to an account of the accident from the Mid-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 11:50 pm
Several local news outlets are reporting that a man and a woman were found dead in a room in the Starlight Motel in Athens on Wednesday night, in a case that police believe is the result of accidental overdose at a "pill party." The Kingston Daily Freeman... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 4:16 pm
Above: Preserves at the Greenville Farmers & Crafts Market, this weekend at the Greenville Cultural Center. Photo from the Great Northern Catskills website.
We're in the thick of autumn now: Cairo's apple festival is past, pumpkins and squash are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 12:57 pm
Photo of Marvin Perry from the New York State sex offender registry; taken October 1, 2012.
The Times Herald-Record reports that 23-year-old Marvin Perry, a registered Level 3 sex offender who was convicted in 2006 of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 2:44 pm
Above: Noel van Swol, in a screenshot from a 2011 YouTube video from Energy In Depth's Northeast Marcellus Initiative. In the video, van Swol cites the Anti-Rent Wars as a precedent for the pro-gas-drilling movement in upstate New York, and tells an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 12:55 pm
Photo courtesy of Focus Media.
Coming soon to 2121 Ulster Avenue in Lake Katrine: The heady smell of fresh-baked bread. A lot of it.
State and local officials gathered Monday to cut the ribbon on a Lake Katrine building that will be the site of Bread... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 4:15 pm
On Thursday evening, a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer on Route 17 in Deposit left 43-year-old Robert Stanton dead, the Daily Star reports.
The Star describes the collision:
Stanton, of Evans Road, who was driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 3:38 pm
Four Rockland County residents have been arrested and charged with burglary after an investigation into several copper piping thefts at seasonal properties along the border of Sullivan and Ulster County, state police announced Monday.
Arrested were 22-... Read more
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