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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 1:24 pm
Above: Delhi's St. Patrick's Day parade. Photo via the parade's organizers.
It’s a gray and drizzly St. Patrick’s Day, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate. Festivities celebrating the Irish continue all this week in the Catskills.
A few St. Pat’s... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 9:59 am
Above: Caricatures of some of the writers who will attend this year's Woodstock Writers Festival, by John Cuneo.
The sixth annual Woodstock Writers Festival looks to be the biggest and best yet.
What started five years ago as a small gathering for people... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 12:49 pm
With spring just around the corner, it's time once more for our annual Catskills Outdoor Guide -- a glossy, full-color magazine showcasing the best of what the Catskills great outdoors has to offer.
Once again, the 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide will... Read more
By HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 4:48 pm
KINGSTON -- HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Chief Executive Officer David Scarpino will speak at the Arts Society of Kingston at 6 p.m. Friday (March 13) about healthcare changes and how HealthAlliance is preparing for the future.
The free hourlong... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 4:27 pm
Above: A shamrock on the slopes at Plattekill Mountain.
Why do so many turn part Irish in the season of St. Patrick? Perhaps because there is something primal about celebrating the end of winter by slathering swathes of green everywhere. Perhaps because... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 3:34 pm
Above: Donna Lewis. Photo by Franco Vogt.
Donna Lewis, the singer who brought us "I Love You Always Forever," a single that was ever-present on the radio in 1996, is coming to Bearsville.
Lewis has a new album, "Brand New Day," that features her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2015 - 1:46 pm
Above: New Environmental Police Officers being sworn in to their jobs patrolling New York City’s upstate watershed, which spans a 2,000-square-mile area, much of it in the Catskills. Photo via the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 4:02 pm
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories about... Read more
By Pine Hill Community Center on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 3:31 pm
The board of the Pine Hill Community Center is searching for an executive director. The executive director is responsible for all activities related to the operation of the Pine Hill Community Center from program development to building operations, from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015 - 5:53 pm
A 49-year-old man who didn’t have a driver’s license repeatedly backed into a police car when Shandaken police tried to stop him from driving drunk in Phoenicia on Monday, March 2, police say.
Kenneth A. Jackson was attempting to drive in an “intoxicated... Read more
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