Schoharie
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015 - 9:35 am
Above: The FEMA trailer that has housed the Schoharie County Corrections Office since Tropical Storm Irene flooded the Catskills in August 2011. FEMA trailers are intended to serve as temporary housing for up to 18 months. Photo by Timothy Knight.
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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: Photo by Nannette Turner, via Flickr.
Ring those bells and light those lights: It’s Christmastime in the Catskills. Public festivities abound. Come out and revel with your neighbors this weekend. Here’s our five-county guide to what’s doing.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 - 5:51 pm
Above: The Ulster County town of Shandaken will receive $415,000 in state funds to fix broken pipes in Phoenicia, part of $26 million in state grants won by Catskills organizations and municipalities today. Photo via PhoeniciaNY.com.
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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 - 1:34 pm
Above: A decorated storefront in Narrowsburg in 2013. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Now that it's the first week of December, holiday events are legion across the Catskills. There are craft markets and... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 - 3:45 pm
Patients and doctors across the Catskills have been scrambling to deal with the abrupt closure of Health Republic, a troubled health insurance company that is closing for business today, Monday, Nov. 30.
The shuttered company is no longer paying its... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 - 10:26 am
Photo by icoNYca, via Flickr.
As the fourth Thursday in November rolls around, we gather in a spirit of gratitude for our mountain peaks and sparkling creeks, our deer and raptors and black bear, and for each other. Here are some places to feast among... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 - 1:52 pm
Above: Schoharie County Sheriff Tony Desmond. Image via RawStory.
After months of unexpected twists and turns, the Schoharie County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a 2016 county budget on Tuesday, Nov. 24 that hits the Schoharie County Sheriff’s... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 - 12:08 pm
Above: The 2014 Hudson Valley Hullabaloo. Photo via the HV Hullabaloo's Facebook page.
The holiday craft season is heating up. This weekend, 65 vendors will flock to the Hudson Valley Hullabaloo in Kingston, and more will appear at markets and bazaars in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 - 12:48 pm
Above: "Stuyvesant Square Park," a photograph by Tom Sardo, one of many artists featured in Salon 2015 and Handmade Holidays, an arts and crafts sale run by the Greene County Council on the Arts, opening this weekend.
Makers, crafters and artisans across... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 - 7:17 pm
Above: The Flager in South Fallsburg in the 1950s Catskills. Image from 1950s Unlimited via Flickr.
To the wider world, the Catskills mean just one thing: The Borscht Belt, with its famous Jewish resorts that inspired the movie “Dirty Dancing.”
But... Read more
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