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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 1, 2013 - 9:42 am
Above: "Fiddleheads", May 8, 2012, at Frost Valley YMCA, by Robin White. Just one of the 60-odd photos submitted to our photo contest.
Wow, you Catskills folks take a lot of photos.
Submissions from across the Catskills poured in last night to our 2013... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 30, 2013 - 11:46 am
Above: Just some of the entries in this year's Catskills Outdoor Guide photo contest, as pictured on our contest Flickr group.
The contest is now closed. Winners will be announced on May 28, 2013. Thanks!
We've received 24 entries in our 2013 Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 29, 2013 - 4:18 pm
A City of Kingston dump truck blocks the Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks near the Washington Avenue intersection in Kingston. Photo taken Saturday, April 27; courtesy of the Catskill Mountain Railroad.
A City of Kingston dump truck recently appeared on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 29, 2013 - 11:53 am
Photo from Hudson Valley Foie Gras website.
The campaign against foie gras just got a lot more personal.
In the U.S., just two farms produce the fatty delicacy, both in Sullivan County. Last week, a group of anonymous animal-rights activists affiliated... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 - 12:18 pm
Update, 4/29/2013: Richard Calkin has been found unharmed in West Virginia, according to a report by News 12 Westchester.
The City of Middletown Police Department has issued an alert for a 20-year-old autistic man who is missing and believed to be... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 - 10:34 am
Photo by Dan Century of cicadamania.com. Published under Creative Commons license.
Brood II: It sounds like a low-budget horror movie. But it's real, and it's poised to engulf the East Coast from Georgia to Connecticut, an onslaught of giant bugs that... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 25, 2013 - 9:48 am
Photo by Linda Law. Courtesy of the Center for Symbolic Studies.
C’mon out and frolic ‘round the Maypole. The Center for Symbolic Studies's annual Beltane festival, taking place this year on Saturday, April 27, regularly draws a crowd of over 1,000 to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2013 - 12:31 pm
Above: We're giving away these seeds and a gift membership to the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Details for how to get them at the bottom of this post.
The sun is shining, the birds are signing, and gardeners across the Catskills are itching to get their... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2013 - 1:36 pm
Photo from TAP-NY website.
Fans of fine craft brewing won’t want to miss the ultimate celebration of the suds. TAP New York, taking place April 27 and 28 at Hunter Mountain, is the largest craft beer fest in New York. This year, the fest is bigger than... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 9:01 pm
Above: Video of Richie Havens performing "Freedom" at Woodstock in 1969.
Folk legend Richie Havens, who was the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock festival, died on Monday of a heart attack in his home in Jersey City. He was 72.
The Roots Agency, who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 12:48 pm
Above: A slideshow of photos from the Lexington Bicentennial Parade on April 20, 2013. All photos by Donna Cavanaugh.
Happy birthday, Lexington: The Greene County town celebrated its 200th on Patriot's Day with a parade, a celebration of the town's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Over the weekend, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office released an updated list of their top ten most wanted fugitives from justice.
The ten men on the list are wanted for a wide variety of alleged offenses: assault, larceny, welfare fraud, failing to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013 - 10:44 am
A tip on a burglary investigation has led Sullivan County police to a "treasure trove" of stolen items from multiple burglaries, the Times Herald-Record reports.
On Thursday, sheriff's deputies arrested 59-year-old Abdool Persaud of Monticello, after a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Apr. 20, 2013 - 8:02 pm
Above: Tree limbs driven into the ground by the force of the tornado. Photo from National Weather Service in Binghamton; for more photos of damage in the tornado's path, see their Facebook album.
A tornado touched down near Bainbridge on Friday evening... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 4:23 pm
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Sullivan County, along with much of Pennsylvania, for Friday afternoon and evening. (Update, 9:30pm: The area is no longer under tornado watch.)
Sullivan County, along with the rest of the Catskills... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 4:11 pm
Orville Slutzky, co-founder of the Hunter Mountain ski center, family patriarch, and a well-known community figure and philanthropist, died on Thursday, April 18 at the age of 96. Hunter Mountain will hold a memorial service this Sunday, April 21.
An... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 19, 2013 - 1:42 pm
Photo by Flickr user Chris Costes; published under Creative Commons license.
Sharpen your No. 2 pencils, kids. This week, public-school students in third through eighth grade across New York State buckled down at their desks for the first round of tough... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 5:39 pm
Seeds of change, sprouting at last. Photo taken in a Catskills garden on April 17 by Julia Reischel.
The official Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Monday this year. Celebrations and events around the region are taking place this weekend, next weekend, and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 - 10:16 am
Trouble, billiards and romance come to Boiceville tonight as Onteora Middle and High School students put on "The Music Man" as their spring musical. Above, Onteora seniors Zoe Patschke (as Marian the Librarian) and Seth Owitz (as Professor Harold Hill)... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Above: Scale model of the planned hotel and lodge buildings at Highmount -- part of the proposed Belleayre Resort project -- from a supplemental draft environmental impact statement released Wednesday by the DEC.
The long-planned Belleayre Resort project... Read more
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