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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014 - 8:44 am
Top: The Aurora, an ice boat that spent the day on the frozen Hudson River on March 3, 2014. Above: More photos of ice boating on the Hudson. Photos by Julia Reischel.
This winter is special. Not only did it give us the Polar Vortex and more snow than... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 3, 2014 - 1:09 pm
Above: The Nevele resort in Ellenville, one of several Catskills sites jockeying for a casino. Photo by June NY and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Would-be Catskills casino operators in Sullivan and Ulster county got a nasty shock last month:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 3, 2014 - 11:30 am
Above: Snow drifts pile up around Parksville's abandoned drug store, once a jewel of Main Street and still clinging to derelict grandeur. Photo taken last week by John of Catskills Photography, and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 - 11:26 am
Top: Bill Pullman with Jessica Vecchione, the founder of the Catskill Mountains Film Festival. Photo by Riikka Olson, via the CMFF Facebook page. Above: Bill Pullman explains his relationship to the Catskills. Video shot by festival founder Jessica... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 - 3:16 pm
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Above: "Colbert's Very Wanted: Who Took Gumby?" From the Colbert Report, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
An unsolved local mystery made national television on Wednesday, when the Colbert... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 - 5:24 pm
Above: William Hrazanek. Courtesy of the NYS DEC.
State environmental officials have filed criminal charges against junkyard owner William Hrazanek, 68, after the discovery of leaky drums of oil and gas found last year on his properties in Fleischmanns... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 - 12:47 pm
The Boiceville branch of Community Bank, at 4141 Route 28, was robbed on Wednesday morning, according to a report from the Daily Freeman.
The bank -- formerly a branch of the Wilber National Bank, a company that was acquired by Community Bank in 2010 --... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 - 9:56 am
Can you smell those ribs, Tannersville? Photo from American Glory's Facebook page.
Joe Fierro loves to hear how his devoted Catskills diners drive a long distance over the mountain to eat at his downtown Hudson restaurant, American Glory BBQ. At the same... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 - 5:40 pm
An elderly man in the Schoharie County town of Summit was rescued from his unheated home on Mud Lake Road on Tuesday afternoon, according to several news reports.
The man was suffering from frostbite, hypothermia and dehydration when rescuers found him,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 - 4:29 pm
Above: Storm-felled trees on New York City-owned land on Houck Mountain, northeast of the Cannonsville Reservoir in Beerston, NY, in May of 2013. Photos courtesy of NYC DEP.
Blame it on the rain -- and the wind, and the torrential flooding. In the past... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 - 1:10 pm
You can't make this stuff up: Police say two men, one wearing a devil mask, robbed a Mormon church in the Schoharie County town of Esperance last month, damaging the church to the tune of $18,000 in the process.
On Monday, state police announced the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 - 3:49 pm
A highway runs through it: Route 30, Roxbury's Main Street, on a chilly January afternoon. Photo by Greg Henderson.
In the rural Catskills, "economic development" often doesn't mean big-ticket projects. For the MARK Project, a nonprofit based in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Above: A chickadee touches down at a backyard feeder, while an American goldfinch looks on.
Local photographer James McCracken took this shot in a neighbor's yard in South Kortright last week, with the aid of a GoPro Hero 3 camera and a color-enhancing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 - 5:50 pm
Above: WJFF's Adam Weinreich, recently promoted to station manager. Photo courtesy of WJFF.
Public radio may sound genteel, but it can generate some fierce drama. Last year, WJFF, Jeffersonville's independent community FM radio station, was the epicenter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 - 3:05 pm
A Hobart man who allegedly robbed the Express Mart convenience store in Delhi in the wee hours of Friday morning didn't get too far from the scene of the crime before his arrest.
At 4:12 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, a man stole cash from the register at the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 - 2:01 pm
Above: A Google StreetView image of the Sauer Bridge in Saugerties.
The Sauer Bridge on the Glasco Turnpike, built on 1962 over the Esopus Creek in Saugerties, has been due for an upgrade for some time. But last Saturday, the Sauer situation got a lot... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 - 10:00 am
Above: Photo by Bob Roney, courtesy of Willderhook Maple, Middleburgh.
Move over, Vermont: New York State produces almost a fifth of the nation’s maple syrup, and much of that comes from the Catskills, where dairy farmers looking to make a little extra... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 - 4:07 pm
Above: Chelsea Goodwin (left) and Rusty Mae Moore in Pine Hill Books, which is closing this month. Photo courtesy of Goodwin and Moore.
Pine Hill Books, a used bookstore that opened on Main Street in Pine Hill in 2010, is closing its doors at the end of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 - 4:05 pm
To the editor:
The Pine Hill Bookstore which has been located at 300 Main Street in Pine Hill since December 2010 is closing at the end of February. Business has been declining since the floods of 2011, and it has become impossible to continue to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 - 11:20 am
A 13-year-old girl from the Wawarsing hamlet of Greenfield Park is missing and may be in Kingston, Kingston police announced Thursday.
Shamara Shante Sterling was reported missing by her family on Monday, Feb. 17. She was last seen at a friend's home on... Read more
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