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By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 12:20 pm
Above: Our Catskill Fire Towers badge on a proud hiker's backpack. Photo by Lisa Lyons.
The Catskills fire towers are already pretty neat, but they're going to be especially awesome this weekend. For half an hour after dark on Saturday, the cabs of all... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:10 am
This letter is written in response to an August 11 armed standoff in Bovina. Read our coverage of the standoff here. -- Ed
Dear Editor,
I want to take issue with the reporting in last week’s press stating that the Bovina hostage taking ends in ‘tragedy’.... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:03 am
To the Editor,
I have lived in Ulster County for 34 of my 37 years and I’ve seen the majority of my classmates from Onteora High School move away to places where conditions are more inviting to those seeking employment and financial security. Census data... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 10:02 am
To the Editor:
During my nearly four decades as a State and Federal representative, I was a staunch proponent of freight and passenger railroads. I viewed the collapse of so many of our nation's smaller railroads in the 1970's and 1980's with great... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 - 1:29 pm
Above: New Kingston during the 1971 Whoop-De-Doo. Photo courtsey of Shirley Davis.
In 1969, the local Presbyterian church in New Kingston founded a festival to showcase traditional folkways and crafts of the Catskills. They called it the "Whoop-De-Doo,"... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 - 4:30 pm
We just gave ourselves more time to produce the new Catskills Food Guide, a print and online publication that the Watershed Post is launching this fall. Our publication date is November 11 -- right before Thanksgiving.
That means you have more time to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 - 11:18 am
If you drive around the Pepacton Reservoir in Delaware County, you quickly notice that there aren't many places to hike or stroll. That means that the grand vista of miles of New York City's drinking water is often hidden from view. (Or only glimpsed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 - 11:06 am
Michael Jacobs, mayor of the Delaware County village of Stamford and a prominent local lawyer with the firm of Jacobs & Jacobs, died suddenly on Saturday.
The Daily Star reports that the cause of Jacobs' death was a heart attack, according to family... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 - 12:45 pm
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, whose upcoming album, Fight, drops October 1. The eight-piece funk/soul band calls Brooklyn home, but frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe and her blues harmonica-wielding brother Jackson Kincheloe hail from rural Delaware... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 5:05 pm
A flowing Catskills stream, photographed by James McCracken in Hunter. A newly-revised midterm draft of a ten-year plan for the management of New York City's unfiltered watershed calls for almost $40 million in new funding to keep the Catskills' many... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 3:08 pm
A three-month investigation into illegal drug activity in Ulster County came to a head in the pre-dawn hours on Thursday morning, when police raided homes and arrested 16 people in Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties on multiple drug sale and possession... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 10:39 am
Kingston, New York’s first capital, is hotter than ever -- which is saying something for a town that once went up in flames. Famed for years now for epic bashes like Hooley on the Hudson, the virally contagious O+ Festival, the Sculpture Biennial, and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 - 10:44 am
Whole pigs are lowered into a stone-lined roasting pit at the 2012 Pig Mountain pig roast in Narrowsburg. Photo by Randy Harris.
A punk pig roast? Maybe it was only a matter of time, but it’s surely proof positive that when the big city gets its hands on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 - 10:36 am
If you’ve always thought three days of peace, love, and music sounded like fun, look no further than Olivebridge this weekend for the real thing. The lineup for the inaugural Summer Hoot, taking place this weekend at the Ashokan Center, reads like a who’s... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 - 12:31 pm
Above: H.L. Wilson in his natural habitat. Photo by Tess Mayer.
Local bookstore proprietor H.L. Wilson died suddenly on Saturday, August 17, of complications from a stroke. He was 71.
Since 1996, H.L. and his wife Linda Wilson have run (and lived in) the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 - 2:37 pm
Prattsville is the new Woodstock. Above: A scene from the first MudFest, held August 25-26, 2012. Photo from MudFest's Facebook page.
We will pick up the pieces Shattered of memories on the groundWe don't know how to give upHell yes we're going to rebuild... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 - 12:33 pm
Two Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs take a nap in the shade at Horton Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo taken during Schoharie County Family Farm Day, Saturday August 17, by Jennifer Strom. For more photos from Family Farm Day, see the Catskills Food Guide's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 - 10:48 am
Above: Justin Geraghty and his son in 2013. Photo courtesy of Liahna Cole.
Around lunchtime last Sunday, Peter Mullin and Victoria Charkut were in their Catskills backyard in the town of Bovina, enjoying the warm August sunshine. Showtunes played on the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 - 1:00 pm
Above: "Tie-dye bagels" from the Monticello Bagel Bakery, participating in the village's first annual Bagel Festival this weekend.
Monticello will be transformed this weekend by a big, bodacious blast of Borscht Belt pride, as the very first Bagel... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 9:40 pm
Update, 11:37pm: The Fallsburg Police Department has just informed us that Ethan Graham has been found and is in good health.
A search is on for a missing child in the Sullivan County town of Fallsburg tonight. Nine-year-old Ethan Graham was last seen... Read more
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