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By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 15, 2015 - 3:51 pm
On Saturday, the Catskill Mill on Main Street Catskill is hosting a dance performance (and a pre-performance auction and a post-performance dance party) as a benefit for the Greene County Council on the Arts.
The evening is planned with young, impecunious... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 15, 2015 - 1:36 pm
A man who was badly burned in an explosion behind the American Legion Post in Delhi on Wednesday, May 13 has died, police say.
Joseph Mueller, 19, died in the evening on Thursday, May 14, according to Delhi Police Chief Mike Mills.
On Wednesday, Mueller... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 14, 2015 - 11:31 am
Due to a rash of wildfires across the state, including many in the Catskills, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday, May 13 that a ban on residential brush burning will be extended until May 21.
The ban, which goes into effect every year for the dry... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 13, 2015 - 11:18 pm
Above: A video of the fire shot by Laura Gioffe and shared with the Watershed Post.
A 19-year-old Delhi man was gravely injured in an explosion behind the American Legion building in Delhi around 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. The minivan he was driving... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 13, 2015 - 11:53 am
Above: Temperatures will be close to freezing in parts of the Catskills tonight. Photo via the National Weather Service Binghamton's Facebook page.
Fire might break out at any moment in the Catskills today, but you also should cover your seedlings to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 13, 2015 - 10:35 am
A 25-year-old man wanted for murder in Florida has been arrested while hiding out in the Greene County village of Catskill, police say.
Jonathan D. Padron is a suspect in the murder of Thomas B. Nelson, who was shot to death in a vehicle on Saturday, May... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 - 12:12 pm
A forest fire that has been burning on Hunter Mountain since Thursday, May 7 is still burning, but has not jumped its containment line, said New York State Forest Ranger Rob Dawson on Tuesday May 12.
In a sign of confidence that the Hunter Mountain fire... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 - 11:16 am
Rebecca Andre, a resident of the Delaware County hamlet of Halcottsville, witnessed one of the many brush fires that have plagued the Catskills in the past week while she was out on a walk near her home last Thursday, May 7. Andre is a professional... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, May. 12, 2015 - 7:31 am
Those attending the SUNY Delhi commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16 will be greeted by a new addition to the campus – a 12-foot-tall sculpture of the school's bronco mascot logo, rendered in stainless steel.
The idea for the sculpture was crowd-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 11, 2015 - 4:12 pm
The first thing that catches your eye when you walk into the Roscoe Beer Company’s brand new tasting room in the Sullivan County town of Roscoe is a large aquarium full of trout.
It’s not what you expect to find in a local brewery — usually the malt and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, May. 10, 2015 - 11:56 pm
Above: A helicopter fights the Hunter Mountain fire on Saturday, May 9. Photo by Ariel Woolheater.
Four days after it was sparked in a remote Greene County Valley, the largest forest fire to burn in the Catskills town of Hunter in living memory is fully... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Sunday, May. 10, 2015 - 4:16 pm
Firefighters were called on Sunday afternoon, May 10 to the Delaware County Solid Waste Management Center in Walton, where a smoky fire was burning in a pile of construction and demolition debris.
The "C & D" pile contains wood, plastic and other... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 7, 2015 - 8:55 pm
Above: Fire on the mountain. A helicopter pours water on a forest fire, visible as a plume of white smoke rising over the ridge, on Hunter Mountain on May 8, the second day of the blaze. Photo by Douglas Senterman.
Updates at bottom of post. -- Ed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 7, 2015 - 12:57 pm
Above: Flowers at Margaretville's 2012 spring festival. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Celebrate the end of mud month and the beginning of spring in the Delaware County village of Margaretville this Saturday during the village's Spring on Main Festival.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 6, 2015 - 3:43 pm
Above: An intersection in the Delaware County hamlet of East Branch where a man drove his Jeep off an exit ramp and into the Delaware River on Tuesday, May 5. Image via Google Earth.
A 37-year-old New Jersey man was found dead inside a heavily-damaged... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 6, 2015 - 12:03 pm
Above: A view of the Shawangunk brush fire looking south from the Summitville turn on Route 209 outside the Ulster County town of Ellenville at close to midnight on Tuesday, May 5. Photo by Michael Wentland.
A massive forest fire that began on Sunday, May... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 5, 2015 - 10:49 am
Delaware County Court Judge Carl F. Becker will retire from his post as the county's top judicial officer on July 31, fewer than three years into his second ten-year term, according to a press release Becker sent to the Watershed Post on Monday, May 4.... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, May. 4, 2015 - 5:11 pm
Above: At Handsome Hollow in Long Eddy, couples can say their vows in a fern-strewn clearing in the woods on the 93-acre property. Photo by JBM Photography.
Catskills weddings – especially those with an outdoorsy twist – are on the rise.
Getting hitched... Read more
By Keady Sullivan on Friday, May. 1, 2015 - 11:40 am
From the moment you walk into the Crispell Memorial French Church in New Paltz during one of Historic Huguenot Street’s new In-The-Moment tours, you are one of the Huguenots, a community of French Protestants who fled religious persecution in Europe to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 1, 2015 - 10:24 am
If you’re planning to eat out today — Friday, May 1 — think of dining at one of the 23 Catskills restaurants in Delaware and Ulster counties that are participating in Fighting Hunger Friday, a fundraiser for the Margaretville’s Community Food Pantry,... Read more
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