Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 11:53 am
The Daily Freeman's Jay Braman broke the news today that Belleayre Ski Center is going to see some nasty job cuts:
Belleayre Mountain Superintendent Tony Lanza delivered bad news today to ski center employees. Lanza said he told staff members that top... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 8:34 am
***Update: The Daily Star is reporting that court documents filed by the Oneonta Police Department allege that Sprague was attempting to rape Ridge.
An Oneonta man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Sonja Ridge, 26, in the early... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Few things on Earth are more depressing than an empty, boarded-up school in a small town.
But when life gives you lemons -- well, you know how that goes. Local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione recently made a short video about a new group in Sidney, Delaware... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Sidney, NY Town Meeting - Nov. 4, 2010 from Haqqani OSMANLI on Vimeo.
The town of Sidney's plan to move a Sufi cemetery and the two bodies buried there splashed into the national news cycle in September. Two months later, the scandal is expanding to... 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 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 Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 - 10:37 am
Two people were killed in a two-car accident on Rte. 23 in Davenport yesterday during the afternoon's sudden heavy snowstorm.
The State Police have released little information about the accident, and the names of the two victims are not known. The police... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 4:45 pm
Above, a photo of snow falling in Davenport, from reader Mike Wilkie, via Facebook: "About a 1/2 inch on the ground here in Davenport. It is really coming down now."
This is turning into quite a white-out. The National Weather Service office in... 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
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