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By Paula Ann Mitchell on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 - 8:54 am
Ryan Fields doesn’t have to think too hard when he starts playing around with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a unicellular fungus more commonly known as yeast.
To him, it’s all elementary--the 30-year-old holds a degree in environmental science from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 17, 2015 - 1:33 pm
Two Deposit men were arrested last week during a heroin sting operation run by Delaware and Broome County law enforcement officials, police say.
Left: Clint Stevens. Photo via the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
After a six month investigation, a... Read more
By Jane Margolies on Monday, Aug. 17, 2015 - 11:44 am
Above: Julian Peploe and David Ryan, the founders of Stone and Sawyer. Photo by Rocky Casale.
On a recent sunny morning, a fan was going full blast in the ceramics studio of Stone and Sawyer, a new lamp-making business in the Delaware County town of Delhi... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 - 1:39 pm
Reader Robert Moses caught this great shot of a double rainbow spanning the sky over Harvey Morse's farm on Dingle Hill in Andes on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
This is the second rainbow photo we've gotten this month, and it's not just us--it really is rainbow... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 - 10:40 am
Above: Members of Fleischmanns' summer Spinka community accompany a new Torah to their synagogue on Main Street.
Hundreds of members of the Spinka community of Hasidic Jews led by Grand Rabbi Abraham Horowitz gathered on Sunday, Aug. 9 to welcome the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015 - 12:17 pm
Above: Visitors to the 2014 Monticello Bagel Festival pose in front of a bagel sculpture. Photo via the Bagel Festival's Facebook page.
This Sunday, Aug. 16, the Sullivan County village of Monticello becomes the bagel capital of the world for a day... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015 - 9:47 am
Above: A house and propane tank (white, center of photo) that were hit by a BMW on Monday, Aug. 10. Image via Google Earth.
Eight fire companies responded to a home on Glenford Wittenberg Road in the Ulster County town of Hurley on Monday night after a... Read more
By Jessica Porter on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015 - 11:12 am
Above: Bike rentals at the Roxbury General Store in Roxbury. Photo via the Roxbury General Store's Facebook page.
The Catskills are a bicycler’s paradise with hundreds of miles of trails and roads perfect for bikers of all skill levels. Whether you’re... Read more
By Jeanine Pascarella on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 - 1:28 pm
Recreation and the outdoors are not just for able-bodied people. Adults and children with physical challenges benefit from exercise and the balance that comes from nature and fitness. Here are some opportunities that allow everyone equal access to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 - 10:56 am
Above: An aerial image of the railroad tracks in the village of Otego. Image via Google Earth.
A Delaware County couple riding in a golf cart with their dog was hit by a train while crossing railroad tracks in the Otsego County village Otego on Sunday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 3:50 pm
It's August, the very peak of the high summer season in the Catskills, and the roads are jammed with drivers. That means more crashes, especially on weekends, when the region's many visitors are in transit.
In one week, there have been two crashes on the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 2:25 pm
On Friday evening, a Long Island man sped through the Delaware County town of Colchester on a motorcycle at 127 miles per hour, police say.
Thirty-five-year-old Anthony J. Mcnamee of Suffolk County was in a 55-mile-per-hour speed zone on Route 30 on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 - 11:46 am
A 55-year-old man was arrested in the village of Sharon Springs on Wednesday, Aug. 5 for attempting to hurt his neighbor by putting glass in his neighbor's pool, police say.
Left: John Schultheis. Photo via the New York State Police.
New York State... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015 - 5:42 pm
Above: This map, from the Delaware County Electric Cooperative website, shows areas targeted for construction of fiber-optic data lines.
Just as the Rural Electrification Administration brought electric power to remote areas of the nation in the 1930s, a... Read more
By Jenna Scherer on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015 - 4:49 pm
Above: A short video about the Whisper Opera from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Opera: It's big and loud, right? The mezzo belting her eleven o'clock aria, a stageful of chorus members singing at the tops of their lungs. That's a stereotype that... Read more
By Paula Ann Mitchell on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 - 4:26 pm
It was sometime in the late 1980s when one of Martin Millman’s longtime customers called to say that he was on his way to the Phoenicia Pharmacy to pick up his EpiPen prescription.
The man had just gotten stung by a bee, and every second counted.
“The... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 - 10:48 am
Above: A dachshund in lederhosen from the 2014 Doxie Derby. Photo by Matt Petricone.
And they're off! We’re not talking about thoroughbred horses or greyhounds. No, the creatures that are going to be running their hearts out at Hunter Mountain on Saturday... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 - 11:41 am
Above: Heroin. Photo by psychonaught, via Wikipedia.
It's been a huge year for drug busts in Sullivan County. In March, a group of 13 people -- including two men in Monticello -- were arrested for trafficking heroin into upstate New York and Pennsylvania... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 - 8:54 am
Above: Video footage of Tuesday's bear rescue, shot by DEC Conservation Officer Anthony Glorioso's body camera.
Officer Anthony Glorioso of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has pulled off another daring Catskills bear cub rescue... Read more
By Tim Luby on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 - 3:59 pm
While the Catskills have a reputation for rugged, steep terrain, the region also offers plenty of short, exciting jaunts with amazing views that kids can scale.
1. VROMAN’S NOSE. 1.5 miles round trip. A mostly gentle climb, with some steep sections, that... Read more
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