Sullivan County
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 - 8:09 am
We all know that Kutsher's was a mecca for young comedians in its Borscht Belt heyday, but the Wall Street Journal has a fun article about how it also nursed the likes of Wilt Chamberlain and Mickey Mantle. For Wilt, who worked as a bellhop at Kutsher's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 6:01 pm
Stanley Fish, a regular in the New York Times editorial pages and a part-time Andes resident, writes today about how he lied to a bunch of left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists having a meeting in Livingston Manor in order to observe them at close range:
I... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 7:49 am
Fear of fracking is everywhere, and it's starting to affect the whims of potential real estate buyers in Sullivan County, writes David Knudsen of the Sullivan County Real Estate blog. Yesterday, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 - 10:47 am
The poor guy is visiting Sullivan County from Brazil, and this is how he gets welcomed. From Voz Iz Neias:
The victim, in his early 50s, was approached by two African-American males in their late teens, one of whom had a handgun. They demanded money and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 - 10:36 am
There's a saying: Unions eat their young. Sullivan County's largest union just agreed to substantial reductions in benefits for new workers, the Times Herald-Record reports:
Members of Teamster's Local 445 voted 183-103 Wednesday to OK a two-year, 10... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 5:42 pm
Monticello school board member Jo-Ann Peabody recently moved to North Carolina -- but she wasn't about to let that stop her from serving on the board. Until the Times Herald-Record came calling, that is.
Jo-Ann Peabody released a statement by email late... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 10:55 am
The Times-Herald Record has the tragic story of Betzalel Levin, a camp counselor from Brooklyn who drowned in White Lake yesterday within feet of a life preserver and a boatload of campers. It's unclear why Levin, who dove off a rented boat in order to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 11:26 pm
A "Sundance-developed feature film" alliteratively titled "Martha Marcy May Marlene," is casting extras and minor roles tomorrow afternoon, Friday the 20th, at Tennanah Lake in Roscoe. The Catskill Chronicle has details:
No experience is required for... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 7:12 pm
Jennifer L. Hart, a serial novelist of the Harlequin variety, just penned a romance novel set in "rural upstate New York along the Delaware River," and it sounds steamy.
Here's the dust jacket blurb for River Rats, as she's calling it:
Set in rural... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 - 2:04 pm
Don't stash your loot in a squad car. It will be found:
A Loch Sheldrake woman has been charged with felonies after police say she stole diamonds, gold rings and earrings from a home in Loch Sheldrake and then tried to hide the items in the back of a... Read more
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