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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 18, 2011 - 10:58 am
As we reported yesterday, 24-year-old Evan P. Spitz of Palenville has been charged with posessing child pornography. But the Daily Mail adds substantive new information to that story today, including the notable facts that Spitz is related to a prominent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 2:37 pm
Times Herald-Record reporter Adam Bosch reports on his environment blog that the New York City reservoir system is full to capacity -- plus a little extra. (Not sure exactly how that's possible, but OK.)
The reservoirs currently stand at 101.1 percent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 12:16 pm
This just in from Ben Fenton, village trustee in Fleischmanns, about this morning's electoral recount for the position of village mayor. Fenton reports that incumbent mayor Dave Morrell still wins the election, but only by a razor-thin two votes: 37 to 35... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 11:42 am
After a winter of designing and judging, the Central Catskills Collaborative has chosen a new logo for the newly-christened Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, the stretch of Rte. 28 that runs from Hurley to Andes.
You can see the winning logo above.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 - 9:13 am
Ben Fenton, a village trustee in Fleischmanns, emailed yesterday to report that yesterday's mayoral election in Fleischmanns isn't quite over. Apparently Fred Woller, the village trustee who challenged incumbent mayor Dave Morrell and lost, had demanded a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 - 4:20 pm
A small earthquake was detected this afternoon on the Quebec/Ontario border in Canada, according to NYAlert and the U.S. Geological Survey, which are reporting that the quake had a magnitude of 3.7.
The Toronto Star is reporting that Canadian authorities... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 - 3:53 pm
Election day in Fleischmanns. Photo contributed by Ben Fenton.
The results are in from most of the region's village elections. Here's a roundup:
In Fleischmanns, the newly-reelected (and unopposed) village trustee Ben Fenton emailed us yesterday about... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 - 10:25 am
The Mid-Hudson News reports that the Ulster County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution banning hydraulic fracturing on publicly-owned county lands at its meeting last night:
The only question raised among Ulster County legislators before... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Today's the day for village elections, and while many races across the Catskills have candidates for various village boards and mayors who are running unopposed, there are a few real contests out there. Here's a list of the heated challenges:
Sullivan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 7:43 pm
When a predicted flood last week didn't reach Biblical proportions, Phoenicia residents breathed a sigh of relief. The tiny hamlet in Shandaken has borne the brunt of much of the region's flood damage over the fall and winter, with back-to-back floods in... Read more
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