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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 - 11:18 am
If you drive around the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware County, you quickly notice that there aren't many places to hike or stroll. That means that the grand vista of miles of New York City's drinking water is often hidden from view. (Or only glimpsed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 - 11:06 am
Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.
The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 - 12:45 pm
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, whose upcoming album, Fight, drops October 1. The eight-piece funk/soul band calls Brooklyn home, but frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe and her blues harmonica-wielding brother Jackson Kincheloe hail from rural Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 5:05 pm
A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 10:39 am
Kingston, New York’s first capital, is hotter than ever -- which is saying something for a town that once went up in flames. Famed for years now for epic bashes like Hooley on the Hudson, the virally contagious O+ Festival, the Sculpture Biennial, and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 - 10:44 am
Whole pigs are lowered into a stone-lined roasting pit at the 2012 Pig Mountain pig roast in Narrowsburg. Photo by Randy Harris.
A punk pig roast? Maybe it was only a matter of time, but it’s surely proof positive that when the big city gets its hands on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 - 10:36 am
If you’ve always thought three days of peace, love, and music sounded like fun, look no further than Olivebridge this weekend for the real thing. The lineup for the inaugural Summer Hoot, taking place this weekend at the Ashokan Center, reads like a who’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 - 12:31 pm
Above: H.L. Wilson in his natural habitat. Photo by Tess Mayer.
Local bookstore proprietor H.L. Wilson died suddenly on Saturday, August 17, of complications from a stroke. He was 71.
Since 1996, H.L. and his wife Linda Wilson have run (and lived in) the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 - 2:37 pm
Prattsville is the new Woodstock. Above: A scene from the first MudFest, held August 25-26, 2012. Photo from MudFest's Facebook page.
We will pick up the pieces Shattered of memories on the groundWe don't know how to give upHell yes we're going to rebuild... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 - 12:33 pm
Two Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs take a nap in the shade at Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo taken during Schoharie County Family Farm Day, Saturday August 17, by Jennifer Strom. For more photos from Family Farm Day, see the Catskills Food Guide's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 - 10:48 am
Above: Justin Geraghty and his son in 2013. Photo courtesy of Liahna Cole.
Around lunchtime last Sunday, Peter Mullin and Victoria Charkut were in their Catskills backyard in the town of Bovina, enjoying the warm August sunshine. Showtunes played on the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 - 1:00 pm
Above: "Tie-dye bagels" from the Monticello Bagel Bakery, participating in the village's first annual Bagel Festival this weekend.
Monticello will be transformed this weekend by a big, bodacious blast of Borscht Belt pride, as the very first Bagel... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 9:40 pm
Update, 11:37pm: The Fallsburg Police Department has just informed us that Ethan Graham has been found and is in good health.
A search is on for a missing child in the Sullivan County town of Fallsburg tonight. Nine-year-old Ethan Graham was last seen... Read more
By Jenna Scherer on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 8:27 pm
In the realm of Catskills-area arts organizations, which are more often focused on inclusiveness than innovation, Mount Tremper Arts is something of an outlier. Come June, the Summer Festival brings emerging and established experimental artists from New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 2:03 pm
A new principal has been appointed for the Woodstock Primary School, the Onteora Central School District announced today.
Kathleen O'Brien is taking over for retiring principal Bobbi Schnell. O'Brien may be a familiar face to some in the district; from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 9:43 am
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a flash flood warning for northern Delaware and southern Otsego counties, including the towns of Delhi and Oneonta. Torrential rainfall is expected anytime between now and 12:30pm, and the Oleout,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 5:06 pm
Above: Fresh-harvested garlic and handmade garlic roasters from Barber's Farm, a family farm in the Schoharie County town of Middleburgh. This Saturday, August 17, Barber's and over 20 other local farms are participating in Schoharie County Family Farm... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 11:19 am
A gunman who was involved in a hostage situation and a long standoff with law enforcement in a Bovina house on Sunday is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Delaware County sheriff's deputies said in a statement released at 11am Monday.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 9:05 am
A standoff between police and an armed gunman that had the town of Bovina on lockdown Sunday has come to an end, police say. But officials are not yet releasing details about the situation, or why it is no longer active.
Delaware County Undersheriff Craig... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 - 12:29 am
Bovina is one of those little rural towns that deserves to be called "sleepy." By 11pm on Sunday night, it's usually lights-out for the Delaware County town's 600-odd residents. But on Sunday, August 11, lights were blazing in house after house in Bovina... Read more
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