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By wateradmin on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 3:36 pm
A crowd enjoys Verdi's Falstaff under a dusky sky at the first annual Phoenicia Festival of the Voice in 2010. Photo courtesy of the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.
This week, the hamlet of Phoenicia plays host to an influx of visitors, including some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 9:05 am
The Cairo-Durham High School was the scene of a horrific accident yesterday morning, when the car of two students on their way to summer school pulled into oncoming traffic on Route 145 and was hit by an SUV.
The accident claimed the life of 17-year-old... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 8:57 am
27-year-old Alec Mangiaracina of Kingston died on Saturday while hiking a dangerous area of Platte Clove Gorge in the town of Hunter.
According to a report from state police, Mangiaracina was hiking with his fiancée near the top of a waterfall on the east... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 31, 2011 - 9:45 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jul. 30, 2011 - 9:17 am
Think flash mobs are only for city slickers? Think again. Close to 100 people, including a fireman and a waitress in uniform, blocked Main Street in Delhi yesterday to perform a dance routine to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. (There are at least three... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo courtesy of the Open Space Institute.
The Open Space Institute announced yesterday that the Smiley family, longtime owners of the famous Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, have agreed to sell 874 acres of farm, field and forestland in New Paltz and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 11:56 am
Photo of the Upper Delaware River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
A Brooklyn teenager (whose name is still being withheld) is missing and presumed drowned after attempting to swim across the Delaware River near Narrowsburg yesterday evening.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 28, 2011 - 9:39 am
Three businessmen, including the owner of a local trucking business, were arrested recently on charges that they shipped ash timber out of Greene County, where the wood is under a quarantine because the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011 - 10:06 pm
Bainbridge pilot Milton Petzold crashed his Piper Comanche airplane into the Susquehanna River in Sidney this afternoon, not long after taking off from the Sidney Airport. The plane had no other passengers, and Petzold walked away from the crash.... Read more
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