A poolside chair at Grossinger's succumbs to the elements. Photo from Marisa Scheinfeld's "Leftover Borscht," a photography project documenting the slow surrender of Sullivan County's former Borscht Belt resorts to nature and decay. Scheinfeld is in Sullivan County this week, speaking about her project at the Monticello Public Library on Thursday, July 11 and the Main Street Gallery at the Liberty Museum and Arts Center on Saturday, July 13. Scheinfeld writes in her artist's statement: "I find myself enamored of these leftovers, abandoned and forgotten within the mountainous landscape of their former pasts, lying in a state of exquisite and captivating entropy."
We're getting a little weary of writing this, but watch out for heavy rains: A flash flood watch for Wednesday afternoon and evening is in effect for Schoharie County, along with much of the rest of northeastern New York.
Speaking of decay in Sullivan County: Monticello village trustee T.C. Hutchins has been found guilty on four counts of coercion and official misconduct, in a public corruption trial centered on Hutchins's efforts to strongarm the village police department into hiring a friend. Hutchins will be sentenced on October 1.
A seven-year-old special-needs boy alarmed the village of Cooperstown by disappearing from his house on Monday, but was found safe and sound in Utica after climbing aboard a bus that was supposed to pick up his brother.
Kingston cops and firefighters had their hands full rescuing people who insisted on driving into flooded-out underpasses Monday. Pro tip: If the water looks like this picture, don't drive through it.
A news outlet by any other name: Hudson-Catskill Newspapers is now called Columbia-Greene Media, because the future is bigger than newspapers, and so are they. (Guys, we like your new website fine, but we wish the links to all your old stories still worked.)
Hot off the press: Shiny new brochures and maps for Catskill Park's five restored fire towers.
Straggly un-mowed lawns of Hunter, be warned: The village is coming for you.
A cyclist exploring some old unmarked roads in Sundown discovers the truth in the old saying: You can't get there from here.
It's not just Catskill Creek that's full of Enterococcus: Riverkeeper says the Lower Esopus, Wallkill and Rondout Creeks are pretty nasty, too.
An alleged potty-cam peeping tom in Kingston has been arrested by Ulster County sheriff's deputies, who say he secretly videotaped two women in a Rosendale bathroom. The Ulster County Sheriff's Facebook page is full of horrified commenters who claim the alleged perp was their student teacher.
A 75-year-old Margaretville man was arrested and jailed on assault charges Monday.
A 1991 Mustang stolen from Long Island three years ago has been tracked down to Schoharie County by state police, who arrested a 28-year-old Sharon Springs man for possessing it.
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