Sullivan County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in 360-degree panoramic images of abandoned places, recently turned his lens on the Grossinger's hotel near Liberty, NY. While he was there, he got took a panoramic portrait of the now-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:40 pm
David Knudsen, a Sullivan County realtor and blogger, addresses the issue of how to talk about real estate in a county that might soon become the home of multiple gas wells:
One of the problems we face at the moment in Sullivan County is that the media... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 8:12 pm
A bag of money buried in a field in Sullivan County led to the arrest of 10 people on charges of -- we kid you not, readers -- spying for Russia. (Another suspect is still at large.) The New York Times's Charlie Savage reports:
Criminal complaints filed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 - 10:53 pm
Liberty writer and photographer Akira Ohiso snaps some evidence that the corporate overlords of ShopRite have been doing their demographic research on Sullivan County.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The problem of too few slaughterhouses is being addressed, at a glacial pace, in Liberty. According to the Times Herald-Record, a much-delayed slaughterhouse is finally nearing a ground-breaking. That is, as long as the feds pony up almost a million... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2010 - 6:21 pm
It was all in a day's work for David Campbell of Monticello, reports the Times Herald-Record:
David Campbell, 32, called Village Judge Josephine Finn a racial slur several times while being arraigned at noon, police say, and kicked a patrol car after he... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 - 6:48 pm
The Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality alert from Sullivan and Ulster counties from 1pm on Saturday to 1am on Sunday. Here's the text of the alert:
AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 17, 2010 - 8:42 pm
David Knudsen is spitting mad that Congress neglected to re-up the National Flood Insurance Program this June, which means, he says, that homebuyers in high-risk flood zones are out of luck:
Because Congress failed to extend authorization for the program... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jun. 17, 2010 - 12:42 am
Sullivan County planners have been looking into building a small creamery, hoping to help the county's few dozen remaining dairy farms survive.
Not so fast, says local economic consultant Marc Baez. The Sullivan County Democrat reported last week:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 14, 2010 - 2:47 pm
Livingston Manor is celebrating this week, freelance sports reporter Richard Ross writes:
I can’t even imagine the rapture and pride being felt by the ladies of the Livingston Manor softball team as their eyes fly open this morning to the realization... Read more
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