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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 9:22 am
To all veterans from the Catskill Mountains, living and dead: A deep and heartfelt thank you.
Looking for information on Veteran's Day celebrations around the region? A few links for you:
-The Times Herald-Record has a special section today, with listings... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 2:05 pm
A missing person alert for Alice Hall, an 83-year-old woman from Franklin, was issued this morning but then quickly cancelled when she turned up at home safely.
Hall's family reported Hall missing after she was last seen asking for directions to Franklin... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Phil Brown, who pens the Adirondack Dispatches blog for the Times Union, had a great post on Monday about two accomplished "ski mountaineers," Mike Whelan and Ron Konowitz, who have teamed up to make a mini-documentary about skiing down Slide Mountain:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 - 9:08 am
ATVs and shotguns can be a hazardous mix. When 36-year-old George M. Banks set out to hunt waterfowl with his two children on Monday in Esopus, he put one of his loaded shotguns on the back of his four-wheeler, where it got tangled up in some netting.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Wonder of wonders, there is some long-awaited news in the Daily Freeman this afternoon. Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the upstate Coalition of Watershed Towns, which have been sparring... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 12:29 pm
The village of Fleischmanns has won a legal battle over its right to foreclose on a long-shuttered movie theater in the center of town.
On October 21, a five-judge panel of the Third Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 11:30 am
Bovina artist Corneel Verlaan has spend fourteen years flying the skies of Delaware County in a Cessna 172 with a camera trained at the ground through the plane's open window. Tomorrow, he will show the flightless what our towns look like from the sky.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 8:41 am
Despite what looks like a victory for U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey in Tuesday's election, his opponent, George Phillips, isn't ready to concede, the Daily Freeman reports:
Matt Hutson, a Phillips campaign spokesman, said on Thursday that absentee... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 - 9:53 am
The Woodland Valley View alerts us that there's a new webcam in Shandaken, thanks to a local with a Weather Underground page and a bit of hardware in his backyard.
News flash: It's drippy out there. Shandaken's newest data point joins webcams across the... Read more
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