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Apr. 22, 2010
We just got an email from Demon On Wheels director Christina Eliopoulos, who's shooting a documentary about local mechanic Mike Ondish and his bitchin' '68 Shelby Mustang:
I'm seeking out 2 production interns who can assist us from May 3 through May 8 on... Read more
Apr. 21, 2010
The Delaware County Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed a resolution in support of Dean Gitter's Belleayre development project, the Daily Freeman reports. (The story also appears in the Catskill Mountain News, but their content is behind a... Read more
Apr. 21, 2010
The Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society enjoyed a recent visit to Tuthilltown Distillery in Gardiner:
Gable is one of these super-charming and disarming type guys. A charismatic dude who knows his business quite well. Gable went on to provide a tasting... Read more
Apr. 21, 2010
Akira Ohiso of Zinc Plate Press snaps a picture of the now-defunct Academy Theater in Liberty, and muses:
Part of the Main Street revitalization of Liberty should include bringing this space back to life.
In a recent profile of the Rosendale Theatre... Read more
Apr. 20, 2010
That's what a tipster claims over at Breathing Is Political:
I had a customer inform me two days ago that the home equity loan they were obtaining in order to purchase a small investment piece near them was turned down by GMAC because their home property... Read more
Apr. 20, 2010
The Times Herald-Record has a look at the steel bases being made by DC Fabrication and Welding:
None of the millions of visitors to the memorial will ever see them.
But they'll be doing their jobs underground, beneath the memorial on the footprint of the... Read more
Apr. 20, 2010
The parents of Richard Vandemark, who hung himself in Ulster County jail a year ago, are suing the Ulster County Sheriff and several prision officials, according to the Daily Freeman.
Apr. 20, 2010
First the New Kingston film festival went on maternity leave, and now the Franklin Stage Company is taking a hiatus! The Daily Star reports that the theater company won't be putting on plays this summer:
"There just isn't enough staff," Marner said. "We... Read more
Apr. 20, 2010
West Shokan fine art photographer E. G. Cleveland originally trained himself in black-and-white photography. But the revolution has been pixelated, and so now he's transitioned to full-color digital photos, a few of which he just uploaded this morning. ... Read more
Apr. 20, 2010
Britain's TRUCK music festival, which describes itself as "a village fete meets Woodstock with a cutting edge musical policy sharp as your suit," is coming to the Catskills next week for a three-day American show. They promise big things, including an... Read more
Apr. 19, 2010
So sayeth Dick May in his latest Greene County roundup:
Paganism evidently is alive and growing in GreeneLand. It is practiced with special fervor in Palenville, in a three-acre grove and a venerable 18-bedroom former inn (Central House) that houses the... Read more
Apr. 19, 2010
The Catskill Watershed Corporation and HospitalityGreen just announced a joint venture aimed at measuring (and decreasing) the impact of local hotels and B&Bs on the NYC watershed. From HospitalityGreen's press release:
The Green Concierge project is... Read more
Apr. 19, 2010
The image above is a detail from a map from the USDA, showing growth and decline in farming between 2002 and 2007. Each red dot represents 20 farms lost during those five years; each blue dot is for 20 new farms.
What are Massachusetts and Connecticut... Read more
Apr. 19, 2010
Douglas Kalajian, one of the two writers behind The Armenian Kitchen, has fond memories of the once-large Armenian community that vacationed in the Catskills:
Maybe you think of the Catskill Mountains as the Borscht Belt, but I remember when the... Read more
Apr. 19, 2010
Ron Lopez, who has a home between Andes and Downsville, saw snow on the ground yesterday. He has a photo to prove it.
Apr. 19, 2010
The final numbers will be decided on May 18 at a Board of Education meeting, but it looks like Catskill plans to cut teachers and raise taxes 2.75 percent. The Daily Freeman has the story.
Apr. 17, 2010
Nearly 50 years (and four grandchildren) after the fact, a Woodstock local reflects on her 1962 illegal abortion:
They brought me to another doctor to verify that I had just had an abortion. Then they put me in a jail cell in the Bronx with a box of... Read more
Apr. 16, 2010
Tea, coffee, and outrageous signage (“You shoved it down our throat March 21st. We’re going to shove it up your ass Nov. 2nd”) were spotted across Upstate New York yesterday, as part of the national Tea Party protests that used Tax Day as an opportunity... Read more
Apr. 16, 2010
Looks like staff shortages at the DEC are delaying the completion of a review of the agency's plans for Marcellus shale gas drilling until at least late summer right in the middle of campaign season. From the Ithaca Journal:
"As with every agency, we are... Read more