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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 9:48 am
A short squib of a crime article in the Daily Freeman on Friday has spawned 33 comments debating whether the death of a goose in the Town of Ulster last Wednesday was an act of homicidal destruction or just an accident.
According to the story, four teens... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 - 11:26 am
Brian Eppley, a Pennsylvania-based painter, posted a portrait of a scene near Fleischmanns on his blog this week. Something about the scene has been haunting him since this winter, when he came through the Catskills to ski:
I've had this image in my head... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 - 11:18 am
John Duda, the chairman of the the group -- the Central Catskills Collaborative -- that is attempting to give Rte. 28 scenic byway status, is steamed about recent recent reports in the Daily Freeman and the Catskill Mountain News that towns along the road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The Liberty Indy reports that outdoor movies in Lapolt Park -- cancelled hastily last month, when the organizers were informed that one has to pay to host public movie performances -- are back.
After a hiatus caused by licensing issues, MOVIES IN THE... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 1:24 pm
If you've ever parked in the E lot at the Albany airport, you might know how James M. Buccigrossi felt this morning when he discovered that he didn't have enough money to pay his parking fee at the lot's exit. But you probably didn't do what he did next,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 11:04 am
Phoenicia is festooned with banners celebrating this weekend's Festival of the Voice, which starts tonight. Photo via the Festival of the Voice Facebook page.
We're skipping our blurbalicious event roundup this week to put out some fires in other parts... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 - 9:57 am
You can't read the whole story online, but the one sentence from this Catskills Mountain News article that is visible is a good one:
An Arkville Fire Department tanker truck was seriously damaged on Sunday evening, July 11 while it was being used by one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:35 pm
We got a tip last night that a very meticulous graffiti artist has vandalized the sidewalk on the edge of the village of Andes along Rte. 28, right next to the Andes Town Hall. When we went to take a look for ourselves, we found not one but three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 4:18 pm
A local boy named Brett Joshpe is one of the lawyers involved in challenging plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. This week, the Mountain Eagle interviewed Joshpe, who graduated from high school in Stamford in 1998. In the past... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 - 8:51 am
The mostly-empty Binnekill stream in Margaretville, photographed in winter 2009 by Flickr user Dougtone.
Yesterday, the Catskill Mountain News reported that a new lawsuit has been filed in a years-long battle between property owner Lauren Davis and the... Read more
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