Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 11:28 am
How small is Andes, NY? Small enough that there's just one ATM in town, on the porch of Don Hogan's general store. And in a few weeks, the bank that owns the machine is taking it out.
At least one person is fuming about it. Yesterday's edition of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:56 pm
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:42 pm
Sherry Bush, a 60-year-old nurse who worked for the ARC of Delaware County, was killed in March when a car travelling in the wrong lane on Rte. 10 in Hamden struck her car head-on.
Now, the driver of that car, Joshua T. Simpson of Masonville, has been... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm
7pm update: Add Schoharie, Ulster, and Greene Counties to Friday's forecast. Also, add "localized amounts of up to 6 inches" of rain, and some snow at high altitudes. This is starting to look a little grim.
There's another flood watch on for much of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 10:54 am
11am 10/13/10 update: Delaware County Emergency Services has just issued a press release detailing the cause of yesterday's deadly fire: "an accidental electrical shortage" in a power cord that was placed under the kitchen stove. Here's the press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 10:31 am
A giant pumpkin welcomes visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC last year. Photo by Neil Rosenau, via Flickr.
This year is proving to be a bonanza one for pumpkins. Newspapers and TV stations all over New York are reporting that the dry summer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Photo of a woolly bear caterpillar by Roban Kramer, via Flickr.
When you see these little brown-and-black fuzzy caterpillars everywhere, that means it's right around Columbus Day in the Catskills. Aside from Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is one of the... Read more
By Aaron Bennett on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 - 12:46 pm
In honor of Lark in the Park, this week's festival of outdoors activities in the Catskills, I'd like to issue a call to arms: If the Catskills are ever going to become an outdoor recreational mecca, we have a lot of work to do.
We need to tear down the... Read more
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