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By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2015 - 9:50 am
Above: The vacant A.L. Kellogg School in Treadwell may become the home of the Watershed Agricultural Council. Photo by Robert Cairns.
The long-vacant A.L. Kellogg Elementary School building in the Delaware County hamlet of Treadwell could soon become the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 - 9:38 am
Above: Jeff Senterman accepts his new post as the executive director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on Saturday, Aug. 29. Photo via the Catskill Center's Instagram feed.
Jeff Senterman, the former Catskills program director of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 - 6:11 pm
Above: The 2014 MudFest in Prattsville. Photo via the MudFest Facebook page.
It was four years ago today that Tropical Storm Irene flooded towns across the Catskills. The Greene County town of Prattsville, which saw much of its Main Street swept away by... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 4:23 pm
In the aftermath of two state audits that criticized Delaware County's procurement and surplus property disposal policies, the county's board of supervisors adopted an update of those policies at its meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
A procurement policy was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 3:16 pm
Above: A motorcyclist was seriously injured on Sunday in a chain-reaction crash in front of the driveway to Snyder's Tavern in West Shokan. Image via Google Street View.
Three motorcycles were involved in a crash near Snyder's Tavern on Route 28A in West... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 11:46 am
The Schoharie News, an online-only news website that reinvented itself as a print weekly broadsheet earlier this year, has thrown in the towel after 13 weeks.
The paper's owner, editor and founder Tim Knight, said that he decided to close the paper after... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 10:04 pm
Above: A sign for the pie sale at the 2014 Old Franklin Day. This year, the revamped event, known as New Old Franklin Day, still features pies. Photo via the Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce website.
The annual community day in the Delaware County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 9:19 pm
A 22-year-old man from Yonkers drove 107 miles per hour on Route 17 through the Delaware County town of Hancock early on Wednesday morning, police say.
Mark B. Frederick was sent to the Delaware County Correctional Facility on Wednesday, Aug. 26 after he... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 4:31 pm
It's been a horrible week for car crashes in the Catskills, with three separate collisions in the region resulting in fatalities since Sunday.
A crash killed four people around noon in the Ulster County village of Saugerties on Wednesday, Aug. 26,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 1:07 pm
Above: A helicopter lands in Phoenicia's Parish Field on Tuesday, Aug. 25 to transport a person who was injured in a crash on Route 28 at the entrance to the hamlet of Phoenicia.
Two crashes occurred on Route 28 on Wednesday, Aug. 26 -- the second day in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 11:55 am
Above: Carriage rides at the Bethel Woods Harvest Festival, via the Bethel Woods website.
Harvest season is upon us. This Sunday, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in the Sullivan County town of Bethel kicks begins its weekly Harvest Festival, which... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 - 2:12 pm
Above: A map of four recent crashes on Route 28.
Two serious car crashes occurred within hours of each other on Tuesday, Aug. 25 on a stretch of Route 28 in the Ulster County towns of Olive and Shandaken that has already seen multiple collisions this... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 - 12:02 pm
A wedding at the Emerson Resort and Spa in the Ulster County hamlet of Mount Tremper took a violent turn on Saturday, Aug. 22 when one guest threatened to hit another with a rock, according to a press release from the Shandaken Police that was reported by... Read more
By Alan Via on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 - 2:04 pm
The trailhead for beautiful Andes Rail Trail hike is located on County Road 2 (also known as 266 Depot Street) at the edge of the Delaware County hamlet of Andes. The attractive Andes Rail Trail and Train Depot sign surrounded by gorgeous flowers herald... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 - 5:13 pm
Posted by Schoharie Co. Fire Wire & News on Thursday, August 20, 2015
Above: Photos of the rescue, shared on the Schoharie County Fire Wire and News Facebook page.
Schoharie County's Search and Rescue Team rescued a camper who was trapped 100... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 - 12:15 pm
Above: A girl hula hoops at the 2014 Summer Hoot at the Ashokan Center. Photo by Rosalind Dickinson. (This image is featured on one of the covers of our 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide.)
Three days of concerts, music making, camping and camaraderie at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 - 11:32 am
Above: Power outages in Schoharie County, according to National Grid's outage map.
Power outages are dotted across five Catskills counties on Friday, Aug. 21, with thousands of households in the dark in Schoharie County and hundreds without power in... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 - 11:44 am
Image by Dan Moyle, via Flickr.
Real estate sales are up all over the Catskills, according to realtors across the region who say that rustic, country and move-in-ready homes are attracting buyers.
But while the number of sales are up, the price of what’s... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 - 11:33 am
The Delaware County Fair opened for a weeklong celebration of agriculture, carnival rides and demolition derby smashups on Sunday, Aug. 16 in Walton.
Photographer Michael Wentland, who carries his camera wherever he goes and uses a photojournalistic style... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 - 8:50 am
Above: Metal siding on the exterior of Bovina's highway garage has buckled from the force of the building’s descent approximately four inches into the ground. Photos by Robert Cairns.
One end of the highway garage in the town of Bovina, which was built... Read more
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