Delaware County
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013 - 10:34 am
Above: Bob Hubbell at the switch of his family's apple press in Kelly Corners in 2011. Photo by Julia Reischel.
There will be a Requiem Mass for Robert Burr Hubbell at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at St. James Episcopal Church in Lake Delaware... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 - 9:36 am
Child of the corn: A young Catskillian ventures into a corn maze at the annual Bovina Farm Day, returning to Crescent Valley this Sunday.
Still deciding how to spend Labor Day Weekend? The Catskills has it all, from farm days to fire jugglers. Below: Our... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 - 8:10 pm
Above: Turbid water from the Lower Esopus mixes with clearer water in the Hudson River. Photo taken by Riverkeeper in November of 2011, when turbidity in New York City's Catskill watershed and the Lower Esopus Creek was still high as a result of the Irene... Read more
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 - 10:03 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 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 - 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
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