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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 10:37 am
Above: Wolf Lake in Sullivan County, looking pretty spectacular in this recent photo by John of Catskills Photography. If you've got one of these handy, you may want to get in it today.
Thank God it's Friday, Catskills. The weekend is almost upon us --... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 9:06 am
It’s the 35th Street Festival weekend in the Festival Town, and sweet, funky little Rosendale will be turned on, tuned in and turned inside out on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s count is, in Street Fest parlance: One street, two days, five stages and 74... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:04 pm
An employee of the Shandaken highway department has been charged with embezzling over $20,000 from the town, some of it allegedly from FEMA funds meant for Irene flood relief.
On Wednesday, state police arrested 46-year-old Florence Sullivan of Chichester... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Above: The Clearwater, a 106-foot sloop dedicated to environmental education on her native Hudson River. Come get up close and personal with her this Saturday at Hudson Rising, on the Kingston waterfront.
This summer, four Hudson River cities are playing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 11:48 am
Above: Image from a Fox13 newscast that aired Wednesday in Salt Lake City, where Grandpa and Grandma Woodstock -- two legendary characters from our own Woodstock, NY -- were stranded in an airport for a few hours, along with their dog Hector. The problem... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jul. 18, 2013 - 9:49 am
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: A good old-fashioned sack race at the 2011 Deposit Lumberjack Festival.
The village of Deposit, normally an entirely peaceable and decorous little place on the West Branch of the Delaware, got its name because... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 2:36 pm
Above: The black-legged or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Photo by Scott Bauer of the USDA; published under Creative Commons license. Source: InsectImages.org.
In the Hudson Valley and across the nation, tick-borne disease is on the rise. The deer ticks... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 8:52 am
Photo from Catskills Irish Arts Week's Facebook page.
The Catskills have been a favorite haunt and cultural crucible for wandering Irish folk for well over a hundred years. The Michael J. Quill Center -- christened for the indomitable Mike Quill, who took... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 3:50 pm
Above: A female common merganser, photographed recently in Hortonville by John of Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Still no word from the state Department of Environmental Conservation on why they raided William... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 9:14 pm
Above: Piles of earth surrounded by hay bales and covered with tarps dot William Hrazanek's Wittenberg Road property in Shandaken on July 11. They are part of the remediation of a chemical spill on his property. Photo by Julia Reischel.
A large chemical... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 15, 2013 - 8:56 am
Above: 17-year-old pro mountain bike racer Taylor Allison, a local athlete who's currently fundraising to enter the 2014 World Cup at Windham. Last month, Allison took fourth place in U.S. Nationals on Windham's rocky, slippery slopes. Photo from Allison'... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Above and left: Outlaws fail in their attempt to steal a strongbox from the Delaware & Ulster Railroad. (Reenactment outlaws, that is.) Photos from the DURR website.
Like your railroading with a whiff of danger? Desperados from the 19th century have... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 4:06 pm
Above: A patriotic parader gets the sweet seat at Jefferson's Heritage Day. Photo from the event's Facebook page.
If last week's Fourth festivities left you still hungry for parades, fairs and fireworks, fear not. This weekend will feature a couple of fun... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: A scene from the Hudson Valley Chalk Festival in 2012, the event's first year.
Artists who work in chalk on public ground are pouring their hearts into big bold creations that get washed away nearly as soon as they’re done, sharing the process... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 9:50 am
The young Toshi Seeger -- filmmaker, activist, arts advocate, cofounder of the Clearwater organization, and wife of legendary folksinger Pete Seeger. Toshi died Wednesday at the age of 91 at the couple's home in Beacon. Last year, Pete told Persimmon Tree... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 11, 2013 - 2:41 pm
Above: VW Parts, William Hrazanek's junkyard that has sat on the bank of the Bushkill for over 20 years. Photo by Julia Reischel, taken on July 9, 2013.
In a rare show of force, a phalanx of state Department of Environmental Conservation officers raided ... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013 - 3:42 pm
Four young barn swallows peep out at photographer Frieda Suess, who shared this shot recently in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. By mid-August, these talented young aerialists will be getting ready to make their first big migration south to the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 10, 2013 - 11:56 am
Above: "West Branch's Finest" in Delhi, NY by Ian Conkling. Submitted to the 2013 Catskills Great Outdoor Experience Photo Contest.
Boating in the Catskills: Where to go
Water is everywhere in the Catskill mountains, even their name: The 'kill' in '... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 9, 2013 - 6:15 pm
A poolside chair at Grossinger's succumbs to the elements. Photo from Marisa Scheinfeld's "Leftover Borscht," a photography project documenting the slow surrender of Sullivan County's former Borscht Belt resorts to nature and decay. Scheinfeld is in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 9, 2013 - 10:53 am
The photos in the slideshow above were taken last week at Fourth of July celebrations in the Catskills, and shared with us in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool. Frieda Suess got some terrific shots from the Margaretville Firemen's Carnival, and John... Read more
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