Delaware County
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 6:40 am
On Monday, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann anointed Sidney town supervisor Bob McCarthy the day's "Worst Person In The World," for leading a charge to dig up a local Sufi community's tiny cemetery over a nebulous permitting issue.
No TV personality can ever... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:38 am
The National Weather Service just issued a Tornado Watch for most of eastern New York, including the Catskills region:
Tornado Watch issued September 28 at 9:57AM CDT expiring September 28 at 5:00PM CDT by NWS Storm Prediction Center
Activation Time: 09/... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 8:46 am
It must be election season, because the earmarks are pouring in to the Catskills and the Hudson Valley Region.
Yesterday, US Representative Maurice Hinchey announced that he got $205,000 from House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 1:51 pm
Last Thursday, 51-year-old Albert Fleming, from Brooklyn, was arrested for stabbing an unnamed 23-year-old at Phoenix House, a drug treatment center in South Kortright. From the Delaware County Sheriff's Office:
On Thursday evening Delaware County Sheriff... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Members of a Sufi community, Osmanlı Nakş-ı'bendi Hakkani Dergah, in Sidney Center, in Delaware County. Photo by Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani, via Flickr.
In a blockbuster of a story in the Huffingston Post today, reporter Andrew Reinbach exposes what looks... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 - 10:19 pm
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office reports that Nicolo Ciancio, a 68-year-old man, died in the town of Meredith on Saturday in an ATV accident. Ciancio was driving northeast along Catskill Turnpike Road around 1pm when his ATV flipped off the road and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 - 8:55 am
The Cauliflower Festival in Margaretville was beautiful. A few photos from the festival, including a cauliflower on Mabel on the Move's shiny airstream food truck, above. Below, two images of the Schoharie Valley Cloggers, and one of a handmade wooden... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 9:44 am
Smoked eels and other Catskills-area specialties will enjoy 15 minutes of farm market fame at the New Amersterdam Market in lower Manhattan tomorrow. The market is featuring our local foods, those collected by the eel philosopher of Delaware County, Ray... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Illustration and caption of gas drilling infrastructure from the DEC's draft "Strategic Plan for State Forest Management," August 27, 2010.
The giant report on state forest management released by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation didn'... Read more
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