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By Laney Salisbury on Friday, Jun. 26, 2015 - 10:40 am
Many trees along Route 23C leading up to the Mountain Top Arboretum in the Greene County village of Tannersville don't stand a chance. They are ash trees, victims of the ongoing Catskills invasion by the emerald ash borer, and they loom over the road like... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 25, 2015 - 10:33 am
Above: The Roxbury Motel, one of Delaware County's largest hotels, will be affected by the proposed new two percent bed tax. Photo via the Roxbury.
A bill that will establish a two percent occupancy tax on room and hotel rentals in Delaware County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 25, 2015 - 9:45 am
Members of a politically active Franklin farming family found one of their lambs decapitated outside their home on June 2, according to an article in the Daily Star.
In act reminiscent of the "horse head" scene in the movie "The Godfather," the lamb was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2015 - 12:49 pm
Above: Catskills v. Hamptons T-shirts on The Graham & Co.'s Instagram page in 2013.
The "Year of the Catskills" continues: On Tuesday, June 23, the New York Post's Page Six gossip column quotes an "NYC nightlife guru" as saying that, yes, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 - 8:41 pm
It's taken seven years, but Route 28 in Ulster and Delaware counties has finally received legislative approval to become the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, according to a press release from New York State Senator James Seward.
Seward made the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 - 2:14 pm
Above: The groundbreaking of the Z Living/Veria Nature Cure & Ayurvedic Wellness Center. From left to right: Mike McCormack, LMV Architecture, LLP; Chrissy Schiff, representative for Congressman Chris Gibson; Sullivan County Legislative Chairman Scott... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 22, 2015 - 11:16 am
In 2006, when word spread that Aman Resorts was going to build a high-end retreat in the Delaware County town of Andes, the locals were thrilled.
A resort, especially one run by one of the world’s most elite brands, meant local jobs, more tourists and a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 19, 2015 - 8:21 am
It takes a lot of work to keep the 350 miles of hiking trails in the Catskill Park clear and hike-able. Do your bit by volunteering with the Catskill Conservation Corps this weekend to learn the basics of trail maintenance in the park.
The Conservation... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015 - 2:29 pm
A security guard working at this year's immensely popular Taste of Country Music Festival at Hunter Mountain in the Greene County town of Hunter has been charged with assault for causing "serious facial injuries" to a 21-year-old man, police say.
Left:... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 18, 2015 - 2:08 pm
The 43-year-old son of a woman who was killed during Rock Hill's St. Patrick's Day Parade in March shot himself during an encounter with police in Rock Hill on Wednesday, June 17, according to MudHudson News and the Times Herald-Record.
Richard Bernstein... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2015 - 3:32 pm
Above: The first strawberries of the season at Dressel Farms on June 6. Photo via Facebook.
It's strawberry season, that momentarily magical time of year when you can eat fat, juicy, locally-grown berries by the bucketfull at U-Pick farms around the... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2015 - 12:33 pm
Love and marriage. Horse and carriage. Coffee and beer.
Yes, in a small Sullivan County café coffee and beer go together like a marriage made in marketing heaven.
Brew, just off Route 17 at exit 109, has lived up to its motto – coffee by day, beer by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2015 - 10:04 am
Above: Lazy Crazy Acres gelato.
Karen and Jake Fairbairn, the owners of the Arkville-based "cow-to-cone" gelato maker Lazy Crazy Acres, announced in a blog post on Tuesday, June 16 that they are shuttering their gelato business.
The Fairbairns have run... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2015 - 1:37 pm
Above: An artist's rendering of a proposed Delhi swimming pool may have been rendered obsolete by bids on the project, received and rejected last week.
The 12-year effort to build a new community swimming pool in the Delaware County town of Delhi was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2015 - 11:05 am
After a two-month investigation, the New York State Police have arrested the 61-year-old treasurer of the Liberty Cemetery Association for reportedly pilfering over $80,000 from the cemetery's accounts.
Left: Deborah Lyden, via the New York State Police.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 15, 2015 - 4:22 pm
It's unusual for New York City-based media outlets to pay much attention to the Catskills, and even more unusual for them to examine the long, often painful history of how exactly New Yorkers get their water, more than a billions gallons a day of it, from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 15, 2015 - 3:39 pm
Above: A hydrograph showing Trout Creek's brief spike into flood stage early on Monday, June 15. More rain on Tuesday, June 16 may cause flash flooding around the Catskills.
A series of heavy rains over the past few days have added much-needed inches of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 15, 2015 - 11:58 am
John of Catskills Photography captured this young buck posing with some velvety new antlers in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill on June 2 and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Correction: An alert reader points out that deer have antlers... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 12, 2015 - 1:44 pm
Above: A marcher in the 2013 Trout Parade. Photo by Ted Pilonero.
Livingston Manor's annual Trout Parade, a mountainous version of Coney Island's famous Mermaid Parade, marches through the Main Street of the Sullivan County hamlet tomorrow with giant... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Friday, Jun. 12, 2015 - 12:41 pm
Above: Jan Mulroy of Franklin, an opponent of gas pipelines and compressor stations, delivers a petition containing over 500 signatures of like-minded residents to the Franklin Town Council. Photo by Robert Cairns.
A farm in the Delaware County town of... Read more
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