Barryville News

Two devoted Town of Highland elders have spent the better part of the past year carefully cataloguing the gravesites that dot the old Eldred Cemetery on Route 55.

With a search helicopter buzzing overhead, state police and other authorities combed the riverbanks of the Delaware on Wednesday as dive teams continued to look for a Staten Island woman who vanished a week ago.

The Tusten Historical Society is celebrating Archives Month with an open house at 2 p.m. Sunday at Western Sullivan Public Library's Tusten-Cochecton Branch, 198 Bridge St., Narrowsburg.

In August, Ronnie and Judy Belzer celebrated 40 years since coming to Israel on aliyah.

Some fortunate fowl were saved from a fiery death on the evening of August 23, when a fire broke out in the building next to their pen.

By itself, the historic Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History on Route 97 in Narrowsburg is interesting enough, but the various special events scheduled throughout the summer serve to increase its intrigue.

Fiber Festival at Fort Delaware On Saturday August 29th members of the Barryville Area Arts Association will be hosting Fiber Festival at Fort Delaware located on route 97 in Narrowsburg NY from 10 am to 5 pm .

State police say an 18-year-old girl has been charged with third-degree assault after she struck her stepfather in the shoulder with a hammer in an argument over the use of a car.

Everything, from two sets of false teeth, 18 sticks of dynamite, public pay phones, a 1962 pickup and a portable toilet, to a metal Dumpster full of gravel, have been pulled out of the Delaware River during the annual river cleanup.

The Architectural Bus Tour normally takes place in April. But this year, the Sullivan County Bicentennial Committee asked the Liberty Museum, which sponsors the trip, to hold it in the middle of summer, specifically on Sunday, July 19.

Jessica Snyder manned the booth at Kittatinny Canoes on Route 97 right outside of Sparrowbush on Friday.

BARRYVILLE The new Barryville, NY to Shohola, PA Bridge built from 2004-2008 to replace a 1941 structure is 99 percent complete, pending installation of the ornamental railing at the pedestrian overlooks, officials overseeing the project said.

What's a downtown hipster like Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. doing in the Catskills? "It all started because I bought a Range Rover," the whippet-thin musician says while walking around his custom-built country lair in Eldred, NY, his two little dogs trailing at his heels.

The 16th Annual River Road Fair in Barryville, NY, carries an extra special designation this year: it was voted The Best Flea Market by River Reporter Readers! New this year, as well, are our sponsors, First National Bank of Jeffersonville and The River Reporter newspaper.

When Aaron Robinson lost a piece of Delaware River-front land - to his brother, of all people - through an "adverse possession" claim, he found allies in other victims from around New York state.

This is the way the summer began: with a whimper, not a bang. At least that's the way the season started off Saturday in stretches of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway.

This cul-de-sac at the end of River Road in Barryville has come under scrutiny as concerns have been raised about emergency access to the Delaware river during the weekly farmers market.

The farmers would like to stay there and town officials would like to let them, but the risk of hampered emergency access to the Delaware River has taken top priority in an increasingly complicated discussion about the location of the Barryville Farmers Market.

Three more local stream gauges used to forecast flooding and recreation conditions have been rescued from New York City budget cuts.