Greene County
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 1:00 pm
Norman Muller, a contributor to a blog about rock piles (really!), came across this teeth-baring boulder near the site of the old Catskill Mountain House in Palenville this week and had to write about it:
My wife and I went to the site of Catskill... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 10:59 am
Marjorie D. BunnA traffic stop led to something more on Wednesday when the State Police arrested three people in Greene County for marijuana possession. 33-year-old Marjorie D. Bunn was one of the two people stopped in the car, which was found to contain... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2010 - 4:27 pm
The Daily Mail has an excellent story about a lawsuit that was filed last week by the victim of July's monkey attack at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast in Catskill. The case is amazing. It involves an American-dream-living and beauty-parlor-owning... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Guess who painted this? Hint: She's not human.
The excrutiatingly fabulous among us already know what they're doing this weekend: they're attending All Tomorrow's Parties, the hipsterrific music festival at Kutsher's in Monticello this weekend. We've sent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 9:11 am
There's another air quality alert in effect for most of the state of New York:
AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 11 PM EDT THURSDAY... THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HAS ISSUED AN AIR QUALITY HEALTH ADVISORY FOR THE... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 9:19 am
The chairman of the board of the Greene Country Industrial Development Agency has resigned in the midst of a scandal over the $175,000 bonus the IDA gave to its executive director last year. According to today's story in the Daily Mail, Paul Slutzky's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 4:00 pm
WGXC reports that the Daily Mail's newly-purchased Greene County News -- formerly the Greene County Local Courier -- now has a website.
The new site looks great, as you can see above. But there is one odd bug:
That photo appeared on the front photo round... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 2:40 pm
The Mountain Biking World Cup held over the weekend in Windham was a blast, reports Catskills Cycling, which was there to watch the whole thing. Not only did the proprietor of the local cycling website have videos and finish-line photos of the winners of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 7:35 am
Witchy wares at Palenville's Pagan Pride Day.
Need something to do this weekend? Lucky you -- the Catskills are hosting the biggest mountain-biking event in the world this week, as well as a bunch of fairs, festivals, and exhibits. (Peruse them at your... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:15 pm
47-year-old William Pitney of New Jersey was killed today in a tractor accident, the Daily Freeman reports:
Deputies said they were called to the property on Sunside Road in Durham about 12:40 p.m. and, upon arriving, found William Jackson Pitney, 47,... Read more
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