Roxbury
By D. Seiler on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 - 2:16 pm
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, at 1:00 p.m., at the Roxbury Library,Treadwell, New York, poet and visual artist Bertha Rogers will read anddiscuss poems from the artist's 2013 NYS Decentralization Grantinterdisciplinary exhibit "Planting Wildness:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 - 1:30 pm
Above: Investigators comb through the rubble at Becker's Tire Service, a longtime Grand Gorge business destroyed by fire on Friday, September 27. Photo by Lissa Harris.
In the last month, two beloved businesses in Grand Gorge were destroyed by fire: first... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 11:28 am
Above: Pumpkins at Sunfrost Farms in Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Kat Stan; published under Creative Commons license.
Halloween may not formally arrive until next Thursday, but celebrations of ghoulies and ghosties and all manner of beasties are in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 - 12:29 pm
Earlier this month, schoolchildren across the Catskills learned about fire safety during National Fire Prevention Week. Here's Gianna Muellerleile, daughter of Shandaken ambulance captain Rich Muellerleile, suiting up for the cause. Rich, who sometimes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 - 2:01 pm
Above: The remains of Sundae's, a restaurant on Route 23 in Grand Gorge that was destroyed by an early-morning fire on Monday. It's the second time in a month a business has burned down in Grand Gorge; in the wee hours of September 27, Becker's Tire... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 - 1:34 pm
Above: Sunset over a Middleburgh field. Photo by Flickr user A Man Called ACME; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Happy Columbus Day Weekend, Catskills. There's plenty to do this weekend around the mountains: Fiddlers in Roxbury, old-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 - 12:55 pm
Columbus Day weekend is the traditional end of the high season in the Catskills, and it's the end of our Catskill Fire Towers badge season as well. So get outside, enjoy the glorious weather, and earn your badge. If you need a few ideas for outdoor... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 - 11:20 am
Above: The Gibson Brothers, the 2013 International Bluegrass Music Award Association entertainers of the year, are playing in Roxbury at Fiddlers! 20 this weekend. Photo via the Roxbury Arts Group.
For twenty years, the Roxbury Arts Group has been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 - 2:14 pm
Above: Georgianna Lepke of Neversink passes the CWC gavel to Michael Triolo of Stamford. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Watershed Corporation.
The board of the Catskill Watershed Corporation, a nonprofit governed mostly by elected officials from the New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 - 8:39 pm
Above: Adirondack chairs strewn across a Delaware County backyard by Monday's windstorms. Photographer Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, who shared the photo with us, said the winds tossed the chairs 20 or 30 feet.
Heavy rainstorms and high winds that swept across... Read more