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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:07 pm
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too familiar... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 - 12:31 pm
In the early hours of Sunday, September 25, 27-year-old Broome resident Richard Welden was shot and killed by New York State Police troopers after a confrontation near his sister's house on Route 145.
Police say that troopers who responded to a domestic... Read more
By Carol La Monda on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 12:24 pm
Above: A view of the Boiceville business district on Route 28, taken on Sunday, August 28, 2011. From Jan Ryan and Ann Davies.
Like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK, people in the Catskills will also remember the details of the hurricane and flood. ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 23, 2011 - 10:26 am
This just in from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office:
Deputies from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office report the arrest of Michael Planthaber age 26 of 482 Oliverea Road, Big Indian.
Michael Planthaber was charged with Strangulation in the 2nd degree (D-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011 - 11:29 am
Photo of Catskills vista by Flickr user ohmann alianne. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, New York Post travel writer David Landsel took a spin up Route 28 to see what Irene hath wrought.
Landsel, a local boy whose grandmother had a... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 5:00 pm
As I stood in my own ambulance bay in Phoenicia on September the 16th -- anxious, profusely sweating, and feeling rather defeated after I denied repeated offers of a tetanus vaccine from the kind and concerned representatives from the Ulster County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 - 10:49 am
Above: Video footage taken in Prattsville on August 29, the day after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene destroyed most of the town's Main Street.
In the New York Post on Sunday, September 18: A suspected scammer posing as a volunteer for Prattsville's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 - 12:12 pm
Andrew Hafele. Photo by New York State Police.
New York State police report that on Saturday, September 17, 20-year-old Deposit resident Michael J. Mills, Jr. was killed in a fight in a shed near a home on Airport Road.
38-year-old Andrew L. Hafele, also... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 - 10:05 am
Downtown Phoenicia. Photo by Daniel Case, via Wikimedia Commons.
In this case “you” refers to anyone who periodically enjoys spending time -- and, preferably, a little money also -- inside Shandaken. With only a few exceptions, the town is open and ready... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2011 - 10:48 am
Chuck Schumer was in Shandaken yesterday to see the damage caused by the floodwaters of Hurricane Irene, according to the Daily Freeman:
The visit was conducted with Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Administrator Lynn Canton, with Shandaken... Read more