Sullivan County
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 - 4:49 pm
It's been awhile since there was life and good cheer in the old Chestnut Woods restaurant in Grahamsville. But this spring, a marvelous thing happened: the lonely building on Route 55 began bustling with life once more, in the form of the Eureka Market... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 - 1:05 pm
The Dancing Cat Saloon and the Catskill Distilling Company have been steadily building a distillery right across the street from Max Yasgur's historic Woodstock-hosting dairy farm in Sullivan County for about a year now. Tomorrow, owners Monte Sachs and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo of the Western Hotel in Callicoon by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the New York Post today, real estate writer Tina Traster takes a stroll down Callicoon's Main Street, in search of the powerful lure that draws... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 - 9:44 am
41-year-old Adriano Pacheco of Portugal died Saturday while trying to swim across the Delaware River near Cochecton with a friend, who survived and was treated at a local hospital. The Times Herald-Record has the details.
Just last week, an eighteen-year-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 2:57 pm
Photo of American feral pig by Flickr user Dave Govoni. Published under Creative Commons license.
Last year, we warned you: Feral pigs are coming to the Catskills, and it's not going to be pretty.
Today, a story by Reuters says that feral pigs are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2011 - 11:03 am
On Sunday evening, a man was killed in the Sullivan County town of Forestburgh when the Fiat convertible he was driving struck a tree and burst into flames. Today, the Times Herald-Record reports, he's been identified as 60-year-old Forestburgh resident... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 9:46 am
It sounds like a publicity stunt, but it's for real: The Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce is closing its Monticello office and moving all of the Chamber's operations into a 37-foot 2002 Coachmen RV.
Chamber president Terri Ward and vice president Cathy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 10:20 am
On Sunday, state troopers arrested an Iowa man and a California woman on Route 17B after a concert at Bethel Woods, after receiving reports of a man and a woman arguing in a stopped car.
According to the police, the pair were arguing because a dog in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 11:25 am
J.J. Pavese, erstwhile Democratic candidate for District 9's seat in the Sullivan County legislature, announced on Friday that he's dropped out of the race after failing to gather enough signatures to appear on the November ballot. If he had been able to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:08 am
Ari Gold, a gay pop star, was the target of homophobia on a Catskills-bound Short Line Bus last weekend in an incident that is being compared to Rosa Parks' famous stand in Montgomery.
According to the Village Voice's Michael Musto, who broke the story,... Read more
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