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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 17, 2014 - 4:09 pm
Above: A view of New York City's Cannonsville Reservoir in late spring. Photo by Flickr user kmitschke; published under Creative Commons license.
A sound that won't be heard on most of New York City's reservoirs this summer: The whir of electric trolling... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 17, 2014 - 2:06 pm
At Windham Mountain, even the slopes were clad in St. Patrick's Day green over the weekend. There was plenty of snow on Saturday for Windham's "Irish I Was Skiing/Riding Festival," which featured live music and a skiing leprechaun.
Pictured above: Johan... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 - 5:20 pm
Illustration by Flickr user Adreson Vita Sá; published under Creative Commons license.
'Tis the season for green beer -- and rural voting. The day after St. Patrick's Day, New York State's littlest municipalities head for the polls to pick their elected... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 - 12:46 pm
Our Catskills Food Guide editor Jennifer Strom photographed this turkey making like a chickadee at a bird feeder in Roxbury today. After the cold, hard winter we've had, wildlife is especially stressed.
It's not just in the Catskills where animals are... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 - 9:21 am
A raccoon that attacked a dog in the Delaware County village of Stamford has tested positive for rabies, county health officials announced Thursday.
It is the first animal in the county to be found with rabies in 2014. No rabid animals were found in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014 - 5:35 pm
Above: Alan Via and Bookah on the trail. Photo by Joanne Hihn, who also took the photos used in the Times Union's story; reproduced by permission.
In her nine brief years on the planet, the four-legged Bookah racked up more hiking experience than most... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014 - 12:47 pm
Above: A man and his evaporator: Mike Porter in his Margaretville sugar house. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Forest Association.
Warm during the day, and below freezing at night: It's the beginning of maple syrup season. Maple producers across the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014 - 11:31 am
An artist's rendering of the Adelaar in winter. Source: AdelaarNY.com.
Developers unveiled plans today for a massive 1,700-acre casino and resort on the grounds of the Concord resort in Monticello. Backers of the $750 million project are betting on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014 - 12:03 pm
Who says cats don't like leashes?
Submissions to our 2014 Catskills Outdoor Guide photo contest are rolling in. We really enjoyed this one, taken by Abby Dousset on the Saugerties Lighthouse Trail.
Enter your photo in the contest. As always, the ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2014 - 9:21 am
Above: Looking Glass Pond in Fulton, where two of a statewide list of 50 proposed projects to increase access to outdoor recreation are located. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently proposed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014 - 12:35 pm
Above: An editorial meeting of the youth-run newspaper Manor Ink. Photo by Manor Ink.
How can we make community news in the Catskills better? Come by the first-ever Community News Summit in Livingston Manor this Sunday and tell us in person over a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Mar. 10, 2014 - 3:47 pm
Above: The Edward Maloney Memorial Pipe Band marches in the 2013 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Delhi. Photo courtesy of the Delhi St. Patrick's Day Parade committee.
‘Tis time again to celebrate the Irish, those poetic and tenacious folks who’ve brought so... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 10, 2014 - 1:07 pm
More charges have been filed against a paramedic with the Ellenville Rescue Squad who was jailed last fall on charges that he stole from his patients.
In October, 48-year-old German Lobaton was arrested after a police investigation into a series of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 10, 2014 - 10:30 am
Above: Still deep winter at the icy cathedral of Kaaterskill Falls. Photo taken March 5 by Rebecca Balzac; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
The Northeast is bracing for yet another late-season snowstorm, due to hit the Catskills region on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 7, 2014 - 3:31 pm
Above: Kim Darst racing in the 2009 Iditarod. Photo contributed by Morgan Outdoors.
The Iditarod, the 1,000-mile sled dog race that takes place annually in Alaska, kicked off on March 1 this year. Today, dog teams and mushers are about halfway through... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Mar. 7, 2014 - 10:26 am
Three Sullivan County residents are facing felony drug charges after a police raid at a Glen Spey home turned up large quantities of crack cocaine, heroin and oxycodone, police say.
The search, carried out on Wednesday, March 5, followed an investigation... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 6, 2014 - 6:55 am
What happens when the perfect woman is a dog? A canine-human love triangle. At least, that's what happens in "Sylvia," a play about a childless Manhattan couple and the eponymous dog that comes into their lives, opening at the Shandaken Theatrical Society... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014 - 4:48 pm
Left: James Krueger, the founder of Mons Nubifer Sanctus, a new Christian community launching in the Catskills.
A new retreat center that aims to bring contemplative Christian tradition of monasteries to secular laymen in the Catskills is holding its... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014 - 4:14 pm
Above: A former rail bed in Hurleyville, part of a 9.2-mile stretch recently acquired by the Open Space Institute and slated for development into a public rail trail. Photo taken by Jesse Wall in October 2013; courtesy of the Center for Discovery.
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014 - 1:43 pm
The village of Fleischmanns is currently under a boil water advisory due to a break in the water main.
Village officials think there may be more than one leak in the system, deputy mayor Ben Fenton told the Watershed Post.
"Because of the severity of the... Read more
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