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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 3:35 pm
There are some things that just go together. Ice and tea. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes.
Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to manufacture those square nails once used to keep the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo: Dave Jacke, author of the indispensable two-volume textbook Edible Forest Gardens and local hero of the permaculture movement, in action. Courtesy of the Northeast Permaculture Convergence.
This Saturday marks the high point of the year for local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo by Flickr user Paul Reynolds.
Midnight tonight is the deadline for our photo contest about the "best-kept secret" in the Catskills, and the submissions are coming in! We're discovering things that we had no idea existed up here. I'd say more, but I... Read more
By Ellen Verni on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:35 am
Delaware County's own Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. Today's column is guest-written by Ellen's daughter, Juliet Verni. You can get more of both talented Vernis on Ellen's blog... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 9:46 am
It sounds like a publicity stunt, but it's for real: The Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce is closing its Monticello office and moving all of the Chamber's operations into a 37-foot 2002 Coachmen RV.
Chamber president Terri Ward and vice president Cathy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 5:31 pm
Photo of Lissa Harris (above) by Julia Reischel. Photo of Julia Reischel (below) by Lissa Harris.
The Watershed Post took a step into new territory today: Radio. We've joined forces with WIOX 91.3FM on a weekly Catskills news program called, "The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 3:10 pm
Today, most of the Catskills region is under an official "excessive heat watch," according to the National Weather Service offices in Albany and Binghamton.
Temperatures are going to be in the high 90s for the next 24 hours, and for urban-dwellers and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 10:18 am
It's official: Next year, hundreds of jobs will leave Ulster County when Bank of America closes its tax-processing operation in Ulster's TechCity complex.
The Daily Freeman reports:
Some of the affected full-time workers will be offered training for... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 9:28 am
Children learn to drum at the Thunder in the Valley Pow-wow in Big Indian Park. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Saturday, Native American vendors, dancers, and drummers from across the region and as far away as Mexico gathered in Big Indian for the Thunder... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 3:42 pm
78-year-old Lynn Gustafson of Oneonta was injured yesterday when her car ran off the road on Route 23 in Harpersfield. From the Delaware County Sheriff's Department:
On July 18, 2011 Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the scene of a one car... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 12:39 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that a man and two women were injured in a head-on crash on Route 9W in Ulster this morning:
The accident happened about 10:45 a.m. in front of the former Miron building, between Leggs Mill and Old Stage roads in the hamlet of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 11:50 am
Video: They Might Be Giants performs "Canajoharie," a song off their new album Join Us, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, October 2, 2010.
In an interview with Gothamist yesterday about They Might Be Giants' new album release, legendary alt-rocker... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 10:20 am
On Sunday, state troopers arrested an Iowa man and a California woman on Route 17B after a concert at Bethel Woods, after receiving reports of a man and a woman arguing in a stopped car.
According to the police, the pair were arguing because a dog in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 9:20 am
Photo from Jolly's Facebook page.
In the Saugerties Times today: A peek inside Jolly's Good Grub, a British grocery and lunch shop on Route 212. It's run by a cast of characters that includes a former world-traveling antique dealer who once drove a bus... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 2:21 pm
Photo of Route 17 in Delaware County by Flickr user dougtone. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the August issue of Travel & Leisure magazine, writer Adam H. Graham takes readers on a three-day ramble across the Catskills, from Barryville... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 12:04 pm
Photo of stack of newspapers, by Daniel R. Blume, from Wikimedia Commons. Published under Creative Commons license.
File under: That's Not How We Do Things Round These Parts.
The Daily Star's Jake Palmateer had some disappointing news recently for an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 11:25 am
J.J. Pavese, erstwhile Democratic candidate for District 9's seat in the Sullivan County legislature, announced on Friday that he's dropped out of the race after failing to gather enough signatures to appear on the November ballot. If he had been able to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 - 8:48 am
A report of a child drowning in the Rondout Creek in Napanoch had police, fire, and medical emergency responders scrambling to reach the scene in time -- but turned out to be a false alarm.
The 13-year-old boy who called in the report will be referred to... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 17, 2011 - 10:34 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 16, 2011 - 7:21 pm
The state police are reporting that two men -- 23-year-old Randall M. Lynch of Phoenicia and 24-year-old Kevin Schoonmaker of Lake Katrine -- have been arrested on assault, robbery, weapon and drug charges stemming from an alleged knifepoint robbery in... Read more
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