Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Members of a Sufi community, Osmanlı Nakş-ı'bendi Hakkani Dergah, in Sidney Center, in Delaware County. Photo by Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani, via Flickr.
In a blockbuster of a story in the Huffingston Post today, reporter Andrew Reinbach exposes what looks... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 - 10:19 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office reports that Nicolo Ciancio, a 68-year-old man, died in the town of Meredith on Saturday in an ATV accident. Ciancio was driving northeast along Catskill Turnpike Road around 1pm when his ATV flipped off the road and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 - 8:55 am
The Cauliflower Festival in Margaretville was beautiful. A few photos from the festival, including a cauliflower on Mabel on the Move's shiny airstream food truck, above. Below, two images of the Schoharie Valley Cloggers, and one of a handmade wooden... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 9:44 am
Smoked eels and other Catskills-area specialties will enjoy 15 minutes of farm market fame at the New Amersterdam Market in lower Manhattan tomorrow. The market is featuring our local foods, those collected by the eel philosopher of Delaware County, Ray... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Illustration and caption of gas drilling infrastructure from the DEC's draft "Strategic Plan for State Forest Management," August 27, 2010.
The giant report on state forest management released by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation didn'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010 - 3:26 pm
Screenshot from "Windfall."
This week, Andes part-timer Stanley Fish, an opinion columnist for the New York Times, weighed in (again) on the controversial topic of wind power development in upstate New York. Fish, a die-hard opponent of local wind power,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010 - 7:56 am
If you haven't heard the term "flatlander" around the Catskills, odds are that you are one. There's an unusual opportunity to hear what the locals really think about you happening tonight in Andes. The plan is for a frank discussion, led by a local, about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 5:15 pm
The Re-Store Design Challenge ended its month of design competition on Saturday at an awards gala in Roxbury. Of the three fantasy store contestants -- an "air emporium" peddling bottled air, an antiques-oriented woodshop, and a barbershop plastered with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Linda Norris, a Treadwell resident and the mind behind a thoughtful blog called The Uncataloged Museum, posed a provocative question yesterday: Are county historical societies dying? And if so, is it their own fault?
There's no question that part of the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 10:39 am
USA Shaolin Temple master Shi Yan Ming shaves a disciple's head during a ceremony to dedicate the new temple in Fleischmanns. For more photos of the ceremony, see the USA Shaolin Temple's Facebook photo album.
Fleischmanns just keeps getting more... Read more
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