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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 - 11:53 am
National news outlets like Bloomberg News and Newsweek are watching the tiny Sullivan County village of Bloomingburg, which is being rocked by controversy over the arrival of a large community of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews.
On Sept. 30, the village held... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:40 pm
Volunteers and New York State Department of Conservation staff picked up tires and filled over a dozen large garbage bags with trash during a litter clean-up event in Greene County's Kaaterskill Clove on Sunday, Oct. 5, according to a press release from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:02 pm
Left: Ethan-Jon Sackett, in a photo published with his obituary.
A 22-year-old from Delhi died on Monday, Sept 29 in a motorcycle accident on County Road 10 in the Delaware County town of Meredith, according to the Daily Star.
Ethan-Jon Sackett was a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Columbus Day Weekend is coming up, and the Catskills are making the most of summer's last hurrah.
If you're a Catskills local, you've been living in a slow-mo fireworks display for a couple of weeks now, as maples, beeches, birches and oaks erupt in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 12:40 pm
The Greenheart Farmstand is selling pumpkins and produce this week at the former Bank of America building on Route 28 in the Ulster County hamlet of Shokan, according to its customers and to Drew Boggess, the chair of Olive Planning Board.
The farmstand... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:39 pm
The New York State Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection will be repairing a 3-mile stretch of Route 990V in Gilboa for three weeks in October, according to a press release issued by the DEP last week.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:09 pm
Above: A bagel with lox from H&H Bagels Midtown East. Photo by Flickr user Kenneth Lu.
A story by the business news site Quartz on Oct. 7 confirmed what New Yorkers already know: The secret to NYC's bagels is in the water.
Bagel entrepreneurs are so... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 11:34 am
Above: The Monticello Fire Department's assistant fire chief talks to a Times Herald-Record reporter about a fire that burned bunkhouses and bungalows at Camp Shira, a Jewish summer camp near the Sullivan County village of Monticello on Monday, Oct. 6.... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 - 3:33 pm
Not only is this week Fire Prevention Week, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has just declared that today, Oct. 7, is Firefighter Appreciation Day. To mark the occasion, we've asked Rich Muellerleile, a firefighter, paramedic, and longtime Watershed Post columnist... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: An Autumn Olive (Wildberry) Mojito. Photo courtesy of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Make your own with the recipe at the bottom of this story.
Foraging for food that grows wild has long been a hobby for nature lovers out walking in the woods. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 2:53 pm
A 48-year-old Wawarsing man will serve 13 years in prison and five more on probation for burglarizing homes while responding to calls as a member of the Ellenville First Aid and Rescue Squad, according to a press release from the Ulster County District... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 11:37 pm
Left: Branden L. Loori. Photo via the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
After a four-month investigation, a 30-year-old Deposit man was arrested on Friday, Oct. 3 and charged with dealing heroin, according to a press release from the Delaware County... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 10:58 pm
Above: A segment on the Fox New Channel's Fox & Friend's talk show about inappropriate emails sent from WIOX 91.3 FM's email account to Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, who is running for re-election. The segment ran on Friday, Oct. 3.
WIOX 91.3... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 11:14 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and a slew of other groups and volunteers will fan out across the Catskills on Sunday, Oct. 5 to clean up four of the NYC reservoirs -- the Pepacton, the Cannonsville, the Neversink, and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 10:40 am
Left: Tyrell Simon (left) and Shane Nystrom. Photo via the New York State Police.
New York State Police officers arrested 26-year-old Tyrell Simon in the Sullivan County village of Jeffersonville on Wednesday, Sept. 30 after allegedly finding "two-hundred... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 - 10:17 am
Lumberjacks will descend on East Meredith tomorrow to demonstrate cross-cut sawing, ax throwing, and horse-powered log hauling at the Woodsmen's Festival at the Hanford Mills Museum.
The Woodsmen’s Club from the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 - 11:53 am
Three twenty-somethings were arrested on Sunday, Sept. 28 for circulating counterfeit currency in the Delaware County town of Sidney, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
Troopers arrested 23-year-old Wesley J. Crawn and 26-year-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 - 11:29 am
Delaware County Sheriff's deputies and police from the village of Walton arrested 51-year-old James J. McGinn on Thursday, Sept. 26 and charged him with heroin trafficking, according to a press release from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
This is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 - 4:14 pm
Above: The interior of the Blenheim Bridge in 2006, in a photo by Flickr user paraflyer. The bridge was washed away by floodwaters in 2011.
The Old Blenheim Bridge, which was the longest open-span covered bridge in the world before it was destroyed by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014 - 9:18 am
Above: “Big Indian Leaves,” taken in Big Indian by Michael LoBianco, the 4th Place winner in the 2014 Catskills Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
The trees are popping into color like popcorn. If you haven't wandered somewhere outside in the... Read more
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