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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:27 am
Above: Prime Steakhouse & Spirits welcomes the Windham ski crowd. Photo by Jennifer Strom.
Let’s just pause for a moment and think a grateful thought about Catskills restaurateurs.
First of all, opening a restaurant anywhere takes guts. The effort and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 - 10:24 am
Above: Hot peppers come by the pint or the peck at Shaul Farms in Middleburgh. Photo by Richard A. Smith.
Buying Catskills foods year-round is like being on a 12-month-long scavenger hunt. One farmstand has the heartiest greens and another specializes in... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 - 1:16 pm
Foods of the Catskills, styled and shot by Toni Brogan and featured on our Catskills Food Guide cover.
Everybody eats. Whether at our kitchen tables, at a fancy restaurant or out of a car cupholder on the daily commute, every meal we eat represents a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 - 8:49 pm
AgriForaging, Inc. and Spillian: A Place to Revel sponsored the Catskills Food Guide's 2013 Catskills Farm Photo Contest, in which readers from across the Catskills submitted 65 photos of local farms and farm foods. After much deliberation, our jury chose... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 - 12:18 pm
It's snowing like crazy at the Watershed Post HQ in Margaretville today. Is it snowing near you, Catskills? Share snow photos on our Facebook page, our Flickr pool, or on Instagram (tag it #Catskills and @watershedpost).
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 - 6:31 pm
Above: Democratic supervisor Marge Miller and Republican challenger Nelson Delameter, of the Delaware County town of Middletown. In unofficial results from the county Board of Elections, Delameter bested Miller by just 22 votes.
Most of Tuesday's races in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 - 10:30 am
The results of Tuesday's local elections are in -- some expected, some surprising, and some still hanging in the balance as absentee ballots that could decide close races continue to roll in. We posted highlights from local races live on Twitter Tuesday... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 - 9:35 am
Above: Anthony Laciura singing "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof in Fleischmanns on Saturday. Photo courtesy of the Festival of the Voice and Spillian: A Place to Revel.
Anthony Laciura, a veteran Metropolitan Opera tenor who played a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Listen to the pumpkin. Photo by Flickr user Tanner Lovelace; published under Creative Commons license.
In small-town America, odd years are where the political action is. On Tuesday, November 5, New York State goes to the polls to elect local officials.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 - 1:58 pm
Judging from its poster (above), the Shandaken Theatrical Society's production of Dracula is not for the faint of heart.
This version of Dracula features an original score composed by Robert Cucinotta and a copious amount of fake blood. A disclaimer on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 - 10:28 am
Above: The Stamford Country Store on 2 Harper Street, which was robbed on Saturday by a masked man wielding a kitchen knife. Source: Google Street View.
As if Halloween in the Catskills weren't scary enough: In the last few days, two Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 - 1:30 pm
Above: Investigators comb through the rubble at Becker's Tire Service, a longtime Grand Gorge business destroyed by fire on Friday, September 27. Photo by Lissa Harris.
In the last month, two beloved businesses in Grand Gorge were destroyed by fire: first... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 11:28 am
Above: Pumpkins at Sunfrost Farms in Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Kat Stan; published under Creative Commons license.
Halloween may not formally arrive until next Thursday, but celebrations of ghoulies and ghosties and all manner of beasties are in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 10:30 am
Above: A headpiece in progress at Martin Keith Guitars of Woodstock, exhibiting at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase this weekend.
If you love fine stringed instruments and the sweet sounds they make, come to Woodstock this weekend for the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 - 4:29 pm
November 5 is coming up soon, but if you're still on the fence about who you'll be voting for, it's not too late to do a little pre-election research. On Saturday, October 26, voters in the Ulster County towns of Olive and Shandaken will have a chance to... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 - 11:57 am
Fickle fortune befell last year’s Pine Hill Steampunk Festival in the form of Hurricane Sandy. "A lot of people decided not to come to the Catskills that weekend, and some who did come left early as the situation worsened," said Pine Hill Books owner and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 - 12:41 pm
Above: A white-tailed deer browses at the shore of the Ashokan Reservoir. Photo by Flickr user Ken Ficara; published under Creative Commons license.
Local hunters, New York City wants your help: The burgeoning deer population around the Ashokan Reservoir... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 - 9:55 am
In today's Walton Reporter is a must-read story about the case of Jeanie Groat, a Walton resident who is serving a two-week jail sentence for disorderly conduct, after cursing at an official at a horse show in 2010.
According to the Reporter, the charge... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 - 3:09 pm
Once again, the Watershed Post is proudly sponsoring a meet-and-greet for the local candidates in the town of Andes this Sunday, hosted by Andes Works at the Andes Hotel. (Here's video from the last one we sponsored, in 2011.)
The event will be a... Read more
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