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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2016 - 10:00 am
Above: "Peter with a Brown Trout,” by Joan Challacombe, one of the runners-up in the 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest. (The 2016 photo contest ends tonight, so enter now!)
It's the first day of fishing season in the Catskills, and the oddly... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Friday, Mar. 25, 2016 - 11:20 am
Above: Delaware County Economic Development Director Glenn Nealis, pictured here at an October county board meeting, is one of the seven members of the new Delaware County Tourism Advisory Board. Photo by Robert Cairns.
The members of the Delaware County... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Mar. 18, 2016 - 4:26 pm
Above: Maple syrup on pancakes at Buck Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo by Heather Phelps-Lipton.
Shake off the late-winter blahs and come celebrate Maple Weekend--actually two weekends of open houses--in the sugar shacks of the Catskills. The first of the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2016 - 1:52 pm
Above: The full Irish treatment awaits at Gavin's Irish Country Inn this weekend in East Durham. Image via the Gavin's Irish Country Inn Facebook page.
The Irish love affair with the rocky, rolling green of the Catskills spans generations. In the Greene... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Thursday, Mar. 10, 2016 - 7:14 am
Above: Firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a pole barn at the Hubbell Family Farm on Wednesday, March 9. Photo by Rebecca Andre, Mountain Girl Photography and Design.
An afternoon fire destroyed a pole barn and injured two firefighters at the... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016 - 11:53 am
Above: Sap buckets in the sun. Photo by Rebecca Andre of Mountain Girl Photography and Design.
“A sap-run is the sweet good-bye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.” - John Burroughs, “Signs and Seasons," 1886
Commercial... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016 - 8:35 am
Above: Gary Ramsey, a BOCES law enforcement instructor, pitched the advantages of a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) to the Delaware County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Photo by Robert Cairns.
Delaware County is looking to form a... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016 - 1:48 pm
Above: Aaron Bennett speaks about the East Branch of the Delaware River at a lively forum about outdoor recreation and economic development in the Catskills on Saturday, Feb. 27. Photos by Rebecca Andre.
Dozens of Catskills residents attended the second... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 - 11:46 am
There is minimal flooding at the West Branch of the Delaware River at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Walton this morning. This is a view facing Kraft.
Posted by The Walton Reporter on Thursday, February 25, 2016
Above: The Walton fairgrounds... Read more
By Doug Senterman on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 - 11:05 am
In this seasonal, part-time, position on weekends from Memorial Day through Columbus Day, Summit Stewards are responsible for patrolling the Catskill Park summit areas of Slide, Wittenberg and Cornell Mountains as well as other locations throughout the... Read more