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By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 3:50 pm
Above: A female common merganser, photographed recently in Hortonville by John of Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Still no word from the state Department of Environmental Conservation on why they raided William... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 8:56 am
Above: 17-year-old pro mountain bike racer Taylor Allison, a local athlete who's currently fundraising to enter the 2014 World Cup at Windham. Last month, Allison took fourth place in U.S. Nationals on Windham's rocky, slippery slopes. Photo from Allison'... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Above and left: Outlaws fail in their attempt to steal a strongbox from the Delaware & Ulster Railroad. (Reenactment outlaws, that is.) Photos from the DURR website.
Like your railroading with a whiff of danger? Desperados from the 19th century have... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 4:06 pm
Above: A patriotic parader gets the sweet seat at Jefferson's Heritage Day. Photo from the event's Facebook page.
If last week's Fourth festivities left you still hungry for parades, fairs and fireworks, fear not. This weekend will feature a couple of fun... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: A scene from the Hudson Valley Chalk Festival in 2012, the event's first year.
Artists who work in chalk on public ground are pouring their hearts into big bold creations that get washed away nearly as soon as they’re done, sharing the process... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 9:50 am
The young Toshi Seeger -- filmmaker, activist, arts advocate, cofounder of the Clearwater organization, and wife of legendary folksinger Pete Seeger. Toshi died Wednesday at the age of 91 at the couple's home in Beacon. Last year, Pete told Persimmon Tree... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 11, 2013 - 2:41 pm
Above: VW Parts, William Hrazanek's junkyard that has sat on the bank of the Bushkill for over 20 years. Photo by Julia Reischel, taken on July 9, 2013.
In a rare show of force, a phalanx of state Department of Environmental Conservation officers raided ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013 - 3:42 pm
Four young barn swallows peep out at photographer Frieda Suess, who shared this shot recently in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. By mid-August, these talented young aerialists will be getting ready to make their first big migration south to the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013 - 11:56 am
Above: "West Branch's Finest" in Delhi, NY by Ian Conkling. Submitted to the 2013 Catskills Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
Boating in the Catskills: Where to go
Water is everywhere in the Catskill mountains, even their name: The 'kill' in '... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 9, 2013 - 6:15 pm
A poolside chair at Grossinger's succumbs to the elements. Photo from Marisa Scheinfeld's "Leftover Borscht," a photography project documenting the slow surrender of Sullivan County's former Borscht Belt resorts to nature and decay. Scheinfeld is in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 9, 2013 - 10:53 am
The photos in the slideshow above were taken last week at Fourth of July celebrations in the Catskills, and shared with us in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. Frieda Suess got some terrific shots from the Margaretville Firemen's Carnival, and John... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:00 pm
Above: New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user mountain_man_ny_2; published under Creative Commons license.
New York City's watershed police had a little extra duty over the Fourth of July weekend: Keeping four capsized boaters from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 3:07 pm
Above: Detail from a map showing the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, a 122-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline that will connect gas from hydrofracked wells in Pennsylvania to a larger network of pipelines serving New York and New England.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 10:46 am
A Cayuga County husband and wife were killed in a one-car crash in Meredith on Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 3:30pm on Turnpike Road when the driver of the 2013 Toyota, 65-year-old Barbara Secord, lost control of the car. The car ran into... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 8, 2013 - 9:45 am
Early Monday morning, the National Weather Service in Albany issued a flash flood watch for eastern New York and western New England, including Greene, Schoharie and Ulster counties.
The watch is in effect from 11am to midnight, and warns that a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 4:03 pm
Above: Photo by Flickr user Jeff Golden.
Planning to spend Independence Day in the Catskills? You'll have your pick of festivals, parades, and demonstrations of explosive exuberance. (We've updated these listings -- thanks for the suggestions! -- Ed.)... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 2:31 pm
The 2013 Catskills Outdoor Guide just won't stay on the shelves. In the month since we published our print guide to all things Catskills outdoors, over 2,500 print copies of the guide have been distributed in New York and New Jersey, and 4,500 people have... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Ed Potokar, instrument-maker and consummate sonic tinkerer from Accord, shows off the Peg Leg, named in honor of Peg Leg Bates. (He was a Catskills local, too.) Potokar and friends will be making gorgeous electro-percussive noise at Roxbury's Orphic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2013 - 10:17 pm
Above: A six-acre lot on County Route 38 in Arkville destined to be the home of the Catskill Recreation Center. Source: Delaware County GIS mapping tool.
After a hiatus of several years, plans for the Catskill Recreation Center -- a community fitness... Read more
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