Festivals
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 7, 2010 - 5:25 pm
This one happened in West Virginia today and created a 70-foot tower of flame.
It's the second Marcellus shale blow-out in a week.
Update: The AP is also reporting a massive explosion at a natural gas pipeline in rural Texas that has left 10 people... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 7, 2010 - 2:00 pm
Summertime in upstate New York is rich in opportunities for log-pulling, pie-eating, livestock-admiring and tractor-ogling. Case in point: The Agfest in New Baltimore over the weekend. Points to the Daily Mail for their extravagant use of four-cent words... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:31 am
A sunny moment at Mountain Jam.
This weekend in the Catskills, you can ogle a tractor, quaff a locally-brewed beer, prance in a Pride parade, and mob the stage with the masses at the Mountain Jam music festival.
Mountain Jam Festival - Friday, June 4... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010 - 3:08 pm
Be the coolest kid at next week's Meredith Dairy Fest: buy a vintage Meridale Fire Department patch on eBay right now for five bucks.
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, May. 30, 2010 - 1:36 pm
Sounds like a good time was had by all at the Tannersville Duck Race yesterday -- an annual event that, as of this year, now includes a Crazy Boat component. From the Catskill Daily Mail:
Among the more inventive boat designs were the Canoe Quack, a blue... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 12:24 am
In the Catskills this weekend and have no idea how to celebrate Memorial Day? Here's our picks of the best of the weekend's parading, feasting, and memorializing.
Tannersville Rubber Duck Race & Crazy Boat Race
First, hundreds of rubber duckies go... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, May. 25, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Could it be true? It scarcely seems possible, after the shambles that thoroughbred racing in upstate New York has become, not to mention the years of fruitless efforts to bring casino gambling to the Catskills. But auto racing trade pubs and local papers... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 1:53 pm
An array of local and national celebrities took to the pages of the Times Herald-Record today to wish Levon Helm, who's celebrating his 70th on Wednesday, a happy birthday. Here's Simone Felice (of the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King):
Levon... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, May. 11, 2010 - 9:45 am
Despite last weekend's freakish weather, the good people of Fleischmanns still celebrated Cinco de Mayo (on Saturday, May 8) with music and lots of food. Jessica Vecchione was on hand with her video camera to capture the scene:
Cinco De Mayo Celebration... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Truck, a three-day annual music fest that's been running in Britain since 1998, touched down on American soil last weekend for the first time. The venue: The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian.
Local music writer Tony Fletcher says he's "desperately hoping it... Read more
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