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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 - 1:19 pm
Richard Weishaupt Jr., of Saugerties, was sentenced on Friday to two and one-third to seven years for theft and endangering the welfare of a child. The crime? Weishaupt and his 14-year-old son broke into the pool house of the old IBM Recreation Center in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 - 8:09 am
We all know that Kutsher's was a mecca for young comedians in its Borscht Belt heyday, but the Wall Street Journal has a fun article about how it also nursed the likes of Wilt Chamberlain and Mickey Mantle. For Wilt, who worked as a bellhop at Kutsher's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 6:01 pm
Stanley Fish, a regular in the New York Times editorial pages and a part-time Andes resident, writes today about how he lied to a bunch of left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists having a meeting in Livingston Manor in order to observe them at close range:
I... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 4:20 pm
Fans of the TV show "Life After People" would probably enjoy the Catskills. It seems you can't spit in these mountains without hitting an abandoned movie theatre, a decaying bungalow colony, a depopulated resort, or an entire zoo being swallowed up by the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 1:51 pm
Dear God. Is it that season already? Dressel Farms in New Paltz announces that the first apples of the year are ready now, almost two weeks ahead of schedule thanks to a warm spring. Galas and Honeycrisps are ready for eating -- and Cortlands and Macouns... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 9:07 am
In a comment on an article about county fairs in Grist, a commenter going by the name of sewassbe complains that the Ulster County Fair doesn't showcase enough real agriculture:
I went to the Ulster County, NY fair a few weekends ago. And was rather... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 7:56 am
Incredible news. Not only do women eat barbecue, but now, the Catskill Daily Mail tells us, they shoot guns too. And sometimes they're even good at it. What is this, the future?
Also, it seems the Daily Mail has discovered the fundamental difference... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 7:49 am
Fear of fracking is everywhere, and it's starting to affect the whims of potential real estate buyers in Sullivan County, writes David Knudsen of the Sullivan County Real Estate blog. Yesterday, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010 - 1:18 pm
Remember Sandy Foster, the Delhi weekender whose 125-square-foot cottage studio made the New York Times this June? Well, we just stumbled across her blog -- and if you've got a sweet tooth for shabby chic, Victoriana, and architectural elements in various... Read more
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