Sullivan County
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 - 1:34 pm
Above: A decorated storefront in Narrowsburg in 2013. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Now that it's the first week of December, holiday events are legion across the Catskills. There are craft markets and... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 - 3:45 pm
Patients and doctors across the Catskills have been scrambling to deal with the abrupt closure of Health Republic, a troubled health insurance company that is closing for business today, Monday, Nov. 30.
The shuttered company is no longer paying its... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 - 10:26 am
Photo by icoNYca, via Flickr.
As the fourth Thursday in November rolls around, we gather in a spirit of gratitude for our mountain peaks and sparkling creeks, our deer and raptors and black bear, and for each other. Here are some places to feast among... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 - 12:08 pm
Above: The 2014 Hudson Valley Hullabaloo. Photo via the HV Hullabaloo's Facebook page.
The holiday craft season is heating up. This weekend, 65 vendors will flock to the Hudson Valley Hullabaloo in Kingston, and more will appear at markets and bazaars in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 - 10:41 am
A 20-year-old man from Queens caused $3,000 of damage to the soccer field in Callicoon Center's town park on Thursday, Nov. 12 while "doing donuts" in his sports utility vehicle, police say.
"Doing donuts" refers to driving and skidding in tight, sharp... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 - 8:56 am
Above: A map of the area affected by a telecom outage in Sullivan County, via NY Alert.
A telecom outage affected emergency phone calls to 911 placed from landlines in the Sullivan County town of Rockland between 12:20 a.m. and 1:18 a.m. on Friday, Nov.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 - 12:48 pm
Above: "Stuyvesant Square Park," a photograph by Tom Sardo, one of many artists featured in Salon 2015 and Handmade Holidays, an arts and crafts sale run by the Greene County Council on the Arts, opening this weekend.
Makers, crafters and artisans across... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 - 9:24 am
Happy Veterans Day. John of Catskills Photography took this photo at the 2014 Memorial Day parade in the Sullivan County town of Liberty and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 - 7:17 pm
Above: The Flager in South Fallsburg in the 1950s Catskills. Image from 1950s Unlimited via Flickr.
To the wider world, the Catskills mean just one thing: The Borscht Belt, with its famous Jewish resorts that inspired the movie “Dirty Dancing.”
But... Read more
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