Shandaken
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 10:50 am
Above: Photo of a bridge in Brown Rd/McKinley Hollow in Big Indian Valley this morning by Pierre Levesque. Below, a photo of flooding reaching the door of a cabin in McKinley Hollow by Levesque.
Below: A CNN iReport by user kkeaveny. Photo taken around 4... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 - 9:25 am
UPDATED 9:40am: I've been punked. Update below.
I've been quietly following the satirical stylings of anonymous Shandaken blogger Helena Handbasket (er, that's a pseudonym) for months now. Her blog, All That is Wrong With Shandaken, is a sort of local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 11:01 am
It might not sound like a big deal, but today's dedication of the Catskill Interpretive Kiosk in Mt. Tremper is a cause for celebration, because it's a concrete step towards getting a long-desired Catskills Interpretive Center built on the same spot.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 4:30 pm
Public art of a mysterious kind dotted Phoenicia yesterday in the form of notes posted along Main Street ordering passers-by to "notice" things. Things like pear trees and fresh air. Anyone know from whence these winsome reminders come?
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 Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 - 8:45 pm
A tractor-trailer killed 83-year-old Vera Un and 86-year-old George Un of Shandaken as they stopped on Rte. 28 to make a left turn in Boiceville this afternoon.
According to a press release issued by the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, 59-year-old William... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 - 7:18 pm
That's Tommy Ramone, nee Tom Erdelyi -- and he'll be performing with guitarist Claudia Tienan at 2pm Sunday afternoon, on the porch of Homer and Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques.
The duo, known as Uncle Monk, play a mean streak of bluegrass, a fact that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 1:01 pm
A lonely feminist divorcee, a family man wistful for the bachelor life, a woman worrying that the new man in her life will break her heart. You already know these people – and by the time the curtain drops on Closer Than Ever, you really know them.
First... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 11:23 am
A surprising detail ends this story about another watershed-related lawsuit in the Daily Freeman.
Correspondent Jay Braman reports that the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is suing the town of Shandaken over the town's tax assessment... Read more
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