Greene County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 - 10:15 am
Photo of hops by Hagen Graebner, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York's one-time cash crop, hops, is on the rise again. Yesterday, the Greene County Industrial Development Agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension announced that the state will fund a hops-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 - 1:37 pm
A snowman at Buck Ridge Lookout on West Kill Mountain, at 3,500 feet of elevation. Photo by Bob Moses.
Our correspondent Aaron Bennett, the regional director of the Catskill Mountainkeeper, led a hike up West Kill mountain in Greene County on Saturday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 - 9:22 am
Sad news today from Windham: longtime local radio personality Guy Patrick Garraghan died last night. From WRIP/97.9's website:
Friends, I’m afraid we must announce very sad news. Around 9:15 PM on Tuesday, November 2, the Mountaintop lost a native son who... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 - 10:12 am
A 24-year-old whose name is being withheld died around noon yesterday on the New York Thruway in the town of Catskill after his motorcycle slammed into a guardrail, State Police report. Here's the full press release:
On October 31, 2010 the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 - 12:11 pm
The Daily Mail has the details:
A 29-year-old Durham man died Wednesday night in an ATV accident on Cunningham Road, state police said Friday.
Earlier: Other recent ATV fatalities in the Catskills.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Here in Andes, it snowed -- and stuck, in places -- for hours this morning. That picnic bench above is just outside the Watershed Post HQ, around 9am.
Carol Seitz of the Woodland Valley View reported flurries down in the Phoenicia area this morning, too... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 11:36 am
An outdoor wood boiler, photographed by Flickr user julianmeade.
After a long, hot summer of discontent, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has given up on outlawing old outdoor wood boilers. The agency is rolling out regulations... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 - 11:56 pm
Windham Journal reporter Michael Ryan strikes again! Boilerplate news stories: 76% less boring when led with a random appearance from an iconic fictional* character.
Word must be sent to the North Pole, following a government meeting in Prattsville... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 - 5:32 pm
WGXC was onhand last night during a forum for county-wide candidates in Greene County, and got tape of the entire evening. Four candidates running for the county treasurer and county judge seats attended and spoke: judicial candidates David Woodin and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 5:46 pm
Democratic nominee for Catskill town justice Michael Smith didn't file his paperwork for his candidacy correctly, a judge has ruled, according to the Daily Mail:
A decision made Wednesday by Albany County Court Judge Joseph C. Teresi has ordered town of... Read more
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