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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2015 - 12:45 pm
A two-day Main Street Boot Camp conference sponsored by the Arkville-based MARK Project nonprofit attracted 90 attendees each day, according to Peg Ellsworth, the MARK Project's executive director.
The conference, which was held on Monday, March 23 and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2015 - 12:08 pm
The Belleayre Music Festival, which has been held at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in the Ulster County hamlet of Highmount for 23 summers, will not happen in 2015, said Mel Litoff, the festival's executive and artistic director. It will return after a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2015 - 12:25 pm
New eateries serving fresh doughnuts, Vietnamese banh mi, baklava and cheesy grits have all opened in the mountains this past year or so. From the 2015 Catskills Food Guide, here are some of our favorites.
The doughnuts at Twin Peaks Coffee & Donuts (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 23, 2015 - 4:43 pm
Key Bank will rebuild its Phoenicia branch, which was destroyed by a fire on Feb. 16, according to a press release issued by the bank on Monday, March 23. The bank estimates that the rebuilding will take several months, and may begin this spring.
In the... Read more
By Keady Sullivan on Monday, Mar. 23, 2015 - 11:12 am
After a brutal winter in the Catskills, college students are holding their breath, hoping for no more snow days.
College classes at SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Delhi, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oneonta, SUNY Sullivan and SUNY Ulster have all experienced weather-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015 - 3:58 pm
Above: An ice rescue training on the Rondout Reservoir on March 10. Photo via the DEP's Flickr page.
March, when the ice of Catskills lakes and reservoirs is the thickest, is the time of year when first responders freshen up their ice rescue skills.
Last... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015 - 2:53 pm
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to regularly release water downstream into the Schoharie Valley for the first time since the Schoharie Reservoir was built in 1927, according to a press release issued by the agency on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 - 5:25 pm
New York state produces almost a fifth of the nation’s maple syrup, and much of that comes from the Catskills. The mountains are home to many sugarhouses, from large operations with state-of-the-art evaporators that use reverse osmosis to little shacks... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 - 1:52 pm
Above: A satellite image of Stephen D. Esolen's residence. Esolen buried 20 pounds of plastic explosives nearby, police say. Via Google Earth.
A 24-year-old man stockpiled a large amount of bomb-making material in his home and on another property he had... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 - 12:06 pm
Above: Aaron Rabiner, a candidate for village trustee in the Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg, in a campaign interview. Rabiner has a two-vote lead on incumbent trustee Katherine Roemer in a tight race that won't be resolved until next week.
It... Read more
By Alecia Lynn Eberhardt on Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015 - 12:43 pm
Lori Robin didn’t set out to start a vegan cheese company. A gilder and stone carver by trade, she had planned to teach restoration workshops for antiques lovers in a studio in the Delaware County village of Fleischmanns.
“Take people out shopping, buy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015 - 11:06 am
Photo by Flickr user Vox Efx.
Today, Wednesday, March 18, is Election Day for most New York villages. Village elections in many Catskills villages are sleepy, uncontested affairs, but a few are real contests with full slates of candidates from multiple... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 1:58 pm
A one-year-old child was killed in a mobile home fire at Foxcroft Village in the Sullivan County hamlet of Loch Sheldrake on Tuesday, March 17, according to reports from the Times Herald-Record and the Sullivan County Democrat's Facebook page.
The child... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 1:24 pm
Above: Delhi's St. Patrick's Day parade. Photo via the parade's organizers.
It’s a gray and drizzly St. Patrick’s Day, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate. Festivities celebrating the Irish continue all this week in the Catskills.
A few St. Pat’s... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 - 9:59 am
Above: Caricatures of some of the writers who will attend this year's Woodstock Writers Festival, by John Cuneo.
The sixth annual Woodstock Writers Festival looks to be the biggest and best yet.
What started five years ago as a small gathering for people... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 4:04 pm
A 56-year-old woman riding on a float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill was killed on Saturday, March 14 after falling off and being run over by a trailer towing a backhoe, according to the New York State Police and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 2:08 pm
A man was badly burned in a series of explosions in a garage on Route 30 just outside of the village of Margaretville in Delaware County on Monday, March 16. In between blasts, two of the man’s neighbors, Allen Misner and Cody Ackerly, helped drag him to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 16, 2015 - 12:49 pm
With spring just around the corner, it's time once more for our annual Catskills Outdoor Guide -- a glossy, full-color magazine showcasing the best of what the Catskills great outdoors has to offer.
Once again, the 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide will... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 13, 2015 - 10:03 pm
Above: Jim Gateley standing in the wreckage of his home a few days after it was destroyed. On March 13, 1990, leaking propane from a pipeline exploded in a massive fireball that engulfed the village of Blenheim. Gateley, who was in his house during the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 - 7:39 pm
Above: Students at Delaware Academy in Delhi celebrate the installation of solar panels at the school's sugarhouse. Photo via Catskill Solar's Facebook page.
In the Catskills, students are tackling climate change in big ways. At Delhi's Delaware Academy... Read more
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