Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 10:31 am
A giant pumpkin welcomes visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC last year. Photo by Neil Rosenau, via Flickr.
This year is proving to be a bonanza one for pumpkins. Newspapers and TV stations all over New York are reporting that the dry summer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Photo of a woolly bear caterpillar by Roban Kramer, via Flickr.
When you see these little brown-and-black fuzzy caterpillars everywhere, that means it's right around Columbus Day in the Catskills. Aside from Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is one of the... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - 12:46 pm
In honor of Lark in the Park, this week's festival of outdoors activities in the Catskills, I'd like to issue a call to arms: If the Catskills are ever going to become an outdoor recreational mecca, we have a lot of work to do.
We need to tear down the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 3:39 pm
Prolific Flickr photographer Doug Kerr, who goes by "dougtone" on the photo sharing site, visited Buttermilk Falls the day after last week's flooding and found a raging cataract, pictured above. (The falls are located in Fergusonville, near Davenport... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 12:13 pm
The Black House, otherwise known as Peacock Hill, photographed in Budget Living Magazine in 2003.
Fleischmanns, a village in Delaware County named for yeast magnates, is a Victorian-era junky's fantasy. The streets are lined with gingerbreaded and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 10:12 am
In the wee hours on Sunday, State Police responded to a call about a domestic dispute in Long Eddy, NY, near Hancock. But they ended up busting a marijuana farm allegedly growing in the home of the unhappy couple, both of whom have ties to law enforcement... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 - 4:29 pm
After the walloping six inches of rain we got last week, the thirsty Cannonsville Reservoir might play host to a Lark in the Park paddle on Thursday after all.
The annual festival had decided to move its Cannonsville padde, scheduled for this Thursday, to... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 - 11:10 am
We're happy to introduce a new weekly editorial cartoon. "Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, will run every Sunday.
Gary Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
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