East Meredith
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:09 pm
Above: A bagel with lox from H&H Bagels Midtown East. Photo by Flickr user Kenneth Lu.
A story by the business news site Quartz on Oct. 7 confirmed what New Yorkers already know: The secret to NYC's bagels is in the water.
Bagel entrepreneurs are so... Read more
By West Kortright Centre on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 10:58 am
November 2, Sunday, 4 PMBattlefield BandTraditional Scottish Music
Recently awarded‘ Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 - 3:33 pm
Not only is this week Fire Prevention Week, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has just declared that today, Oct. 7, is Firefighter Appreciation Day. To mark the occasion, we've asked Rich Muellerleile, a firefighter, paramedic, and longtime Watershed Post columnist... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: An Autumn Olive (Wildberry) Mojito. Photo courtesy of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Make your own with the recipe at the bottom of this story.
Foraging for food that grows wild has long been a hobby for nature lovers out walking in the woods. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 11:14 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and a slew of other groups and volunteers will fan out across the Catskills on Sunday, Oct. 5 to clean up four of the NYC reservoirs -- the Pepacton, the Cannonsville, the Neversink, and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 - 10:17 am
Lumberjacks will descend on East Meredith tomorrow to demonstrate cross-cut sawing, ax throwing, and horse-powered log hauling at the Woodsmen's Festival at the Hanford Mills Museum.
The Woodsmen’s Club from the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 - 11:29 am
Delaware County Sheriff's deputies and police from the village of Walton arrested 51-year-old James J. McGinn on Thursday, Sept. 26 and charged him with heroin trafficking, according to a press release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
This is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 - 9:18 am
Above: “Big Indian Leaves,” taken in Big Indian by Michael LoBianco, the 4th Place winner in the 2014 Catskills Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
The trees are popping into color like popcorn. If you haven't wandered somewhere outside in the... Read more
By Hanford Mills Museum on Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2014 - 1:44 pm
Fall event features lumberjack skills, woodworking demos, children’s activities, music, and Mill tours
[East Meredith, NY September 23, 2014] Thwack, chop, buzz and hum. It’s the Woodsmen’s Festival, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, October 4 at Hanford Mills... Read more
By West Kortright Centre on Monday, Sep. 15, 2014 - 8:57 pm
Sunday, October 5, 12:30–5 PM
Wild Food Foraging/Fall
With Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower at the West Kortright Centre
All ages; $15
Take a fall adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. Those weeds you thought useless will prove quite the opposite! Discover... Read more