Stamford
By Matthew Perry on Friday, May. 27, 2011 - 1:25 pm
Hobart, a "book village" that has been long established as the Delaware County hub for bibliophiles, is celebrating Memorial Day with a village-wide book sale and the grand opening of a new bookstore on Main Street.
Tomorrow, the brand-new Mysteries... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, May. 27, 2011 - 12:34 pm
A ger is a portable, wood-framed dwelling that is typically found in the Central Asian steppes. (You may know it as a yurt, which is the Russian word; ger is Mongolian.)
On Saturday, however, the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve in Stamford will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 6:05 pm
Today, the New York Times's Diner's Journal blog has a glowing profile of Mark VanGlad, a young Stamford brewer who will be the first to sell beer at New York City's famous Union Square Greenmarket tomorrow. Even for a tiny microbrewer, VanGlad's Tundra... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 8, 2011 - 8:42 am
Remember what summer looked like? WIth a generous dusting of frost on the hills this morning, you may not. Luckily, Joshua VanBrakle, a Sidney forester who blogs about environmental issues from the perspectve of a conservative, sent us this photo of Relay... 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 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 wateradmin on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 - 10:59 am
First-grader Julian Olson contemplating the 40-foot Bilbiobarn mural in South Kortright. Photo by Riikka Olson.
Even for the rural Western Catskills, the Bibliobarn – a bookstore run by lifelong bibliophiles H.L. and Linda Wilson – is off the beaten path... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 8:49 am
The Stamford igloo. Photo by Beth Adams.
George Divine in Stamford has built an enormous, ice-reinforced igloo in his backyard. It's so impressive that the Mountain Eagle has written an article about it:
The four walls of the snow fort received a layer of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 10:47 am
The rural Catskills have never been an easy place to do business. When the rest of the country is popping champagne corks and watching the stock market boom, the good times always seem to pass us by. And when recessions hit, the already-hungry local... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 5:35 pm
Good news: Goldenheart Unidiversity's 'No Bees No Food' project, which we profiled earlier this year, came in first in an online voting drive to receive $5,000 in funding from the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest.
Project mastermind David Turan, cofounder... Read more
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