Catskills
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 root2shoot on Thursday, Mar. 10, 2016 - 8:08 pm
Spring is beginning here in the Catskills! This post surveys the earliest spring flowers, blooming now or within the next few weeks. The plants producing these flowers are small but the flowers are relatively large and conspicuous, standing out sharply... 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 Rebecca Andre on Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016 - 11:41 am
Above: Maple tapping by Karen Wallace, an entry in the 2016 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest.
Want to make your own maple syrup? Here’s a step-by-step guide to small-scale backyard maple production:
Before you get started, here are some tips from the... Read more
By Jessica Porter on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016 - 2:58 pm
Above: A view looking up through Upper Devil's Kitchen. The newly-legal trail towards Platte Clove Road is on the right. Photos by Marty Molitoris/Alpine Endeavors.
An unmarked trail that is the safest way into the Devil’s Kitchen has become public... Read more
By Jane Margolies on Friday, Mar. 4, 2016 - 7:29 pm
Above: The Bovina creamery building. Photo by Stephen O'Grady.
When the Bovina Center Co-op Dairy, better known as the Bovina creamery, was shuttered in 1973, it was a sure sign that the Delaware County town’s best dairying days were over.
After seven... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016 - 4:20 pm
Above: "Catskill Snow Storm in October" by Francine Barbet. Image via barbetart.com.
Seventy-eight-year-old Francine Barbet was killed in the Greene County town of Jewett on Friday, Feb. 26 when she walked with her dog into the path of an oncoming Jeep... 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
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