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By Andrea Girolamo on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 12:46 pm
Above: An artisan at work, carving out an ice sculpture at a past Winterfest. Photo by Suzanne Wirth on the Rail Trail's website.
Grab your mittens and bring your appetite: the Hudson Valley Rail Trail's annual Winterfest is this Saturday, from 11am - 2pm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 - 12:26 pm
The Schoharie County Board of Supervisors has elected Fulton supervisor Phil Skowfoe as county chairman, in a close vote taken Monday evening. Skowfoe is the first Democrat to lead the county board in 20 years, the Schoharie Times Journal reports:
Mr.... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 4:35 pm
DELAWARE & WESTCHESTER COUNTIES, NY --The Watershed Agricultural Council fortified its ranks in early 2013. Three staff were internally promoted within the Agricultural and Easement Programs. A Farmhearts Fellow was also appointed within the Farm to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 - 3:39 pm
Look closely: The strangely beautiful "icicles" in this photo are actually nail gun coils. Photographer Elizabeth Herman writes us from Pine Hill:
I found ten pounds of nail gun nail coils buried in the detritus under a tree next to our trash bin. They... Read more
By Tobe Carey on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 9:12 pm
One of the most interesting parts of collecting images for our documentary, Rails to the Catskills, has to be walking tracks and finding intriguing rail beds and places along the former Ulster & Deleware tracks.
Here are some spots we have found along... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 - 5:11 pm
An Ulster man, 21-year-old Nick Ogden, was struck by a CSX train this weekend, and lost his right arm and leg. Ogden was found severely injured but conscious near the CSX railroad tracks around 7am on Saturday morning.
By Sunday, the Daily Freeman reports... Read more
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