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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 8:49 am
The Stamford igloo. Photo by Beth Adams.
George Divine in Stamford has built an enormous, ice-reinforced igloo in his backyard. It's so impressive that the Mountain Eagle has written an article about it:
The four walls of the snow fort received a layer of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 1:34 pm
As a rural area, the Catskills region chronically lacks high-speed, broadband internet access. The region's deep valleys and steep hillsides make cell phone service next to impossible. (In fact, the Times Herald-Record just wrote an entire cover story... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 11:40 am
Find out what the USDA NRCS can do for you. Tune in this Wednesday to WIOX Community Radio 91.3FM (streaming live on the web) for Watershed Wednsday at 1 p.m. Host Tara Collins of the Watershed Agricultural Council sits down with NRCS State... Read more
By rich6024 on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 10:32 am
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 - 9:59 am
(Post has been updated -- scroll to bottom for more details.)
In addition to Friday's Grand Gorge car accident, which claimed the life of a Gilboa man, last weekend saw two other fatal accidents: a snowmobile crash in the town of Rochester and a car... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 3:21 pm
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 2:58 pm
On Friday afternoon, 42-year-old Thomas J. Berger of Gilboa was killed in an automobile accident in Grand Gorge. Also injured in the crash was Richard Lewis, an 87-year-old from Gilboa, who is being treated at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 - 9:03 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. For some context for this week's cartoon, click here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 - 1:49 pm
Ice climbing is not for the faint-of-heart. Just being outdoors on your average winter Catskills day can be bad enough, let alone outdoors hanging by your fingernails from the underside of a cliff 85 feet up.
But lots of people around here love the sport... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 - 9:18 am
From the Daily Freeman today:
A fire destroyed a barn at a horse farm Friday night at 1480 state Route 32, and some horses may have perished in the blaze, fire officials said.
The fire, which was called in at about 5:30 p.m., took down a barn measuring... Read more
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