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By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:54 pm
A former Ellenville junkyard which has been declared a Superfund site is on the federal Environmental Protection Agency's agenda this month.
Once Ellenville Scap Iron and Metal, the site is now 24 acres of leaking car batteries, heavy metals, and known... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Congressman Scott Murphy, who represents most of the Catkills region in the U.S. House of Representatives, is putting his weight behind a very specific cause: cell phone service in the Delaware County town of Andes.
He issued a press release yesterday in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 5:43 pm
Forget the palatial estate with horse barn, swimming pool and five-bedroom Victorian. Today's hot Catskills property is a moldering cabin on 30 brushy acres, with Plexiglas windows and "BRIAN SHOT A BUCK 11/16/08" chalked on the door.
Don't believe me?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Since the surprising passage of a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing by the New York Senate on Tuesday night, the political chess pieces have been moving around the board.
Our own Catskills-area state senator John Bonacic, who reversed his previous pro-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 2:02 pm
A paper published in the prestigious research journal Science on August 6 makes a dire prediction: The little brown bat, the Northeast's most common bat and an important species in the ecology of the region, could become extinct in the region within 16... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 1:46 pm
Bovina blogger The Wild Rabbit Goes Catskills found a couple of kittens yesterday, which she's hoping to give to a good home.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Kingston Citizens reports that there is a new foreclosure hotline in Kingston:
If you are having a problem with a neighboring foreclosed property, there is a new hotline number for property complaints that citizens should feel free to use. That number is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 - 11:48 am
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam: Foofwa d'Imobilite's Tribute to Merce Cunningham, Michael Jackson and Pina Bausch
Dear readers: Please believe us when we tell you we'd never inflict a mime on you in our weekend picks if he wasn't going to be brilliant. A... Read more
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