Barryville News

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.

Despite a tidal wave of protest over the closing of more than two dozen tools that help predict local flooding, New York City will restore funding only to three river gauges until 2010, the Times Herald-Record has learned.

This stage house by the Barryville Bridge on the Shohola side of the Delaware River is scheduled to go offline in September.

Because of budget constraints, some 50 water gages in the state are slated to be shut down, some in as little as three months, others by September 2010.

Some of the most valuable and oldest predictors of local floods will soon fall victim to New York City budget cuts.

Vital tools that can predict local floods - and possibly save lives - will soon fall victim to New York City budget cuts.

Huge, broken windowpanes of ice loomed from the gray Hudson River. Hitching a ride were dark brown bald eagles, immature birds.

On Saturday, Santa will once again make a visit to Sullivan County on his 50-foot lighted and musical sleigh.