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By Timothy Knight on Tuesday, Apr. 26, 2016 - 7:49 am
Above: John Faso. Image via the Faso campaign.
In the increasingly negative race to replace retiring Republican Congressman Chris Gibson in New York's 19th Congressional District, former State Assembly Minority Leader John Faso has all the hallmarks of a... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2016 - 4:23 pm
Reserve and join in the fun! Fast furious and friendly competition for "Tips". Join us on June 4th from Noon to 2pm and enjoy the luncheon prepared especially for this event by Peekamoose Restaurant. For reservations and information contact Penny Vaccaro... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2016 - 10:42 am
Above: Photo by Justin Grimes, via Flickr.
For New York state voters who are registered with a political party, today--April 19, 2016--is the day to vote in New York state's presidential primary election.
It's one of the most exciting primary races in... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Saturday, Apr. 2, 2016 - 11:47 am
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2016 - 5:13 pm
Above: Rick Roberts, the president of the Catskill Mountain Club, advocating for dedicated funding for the Catskill Park in the 2016-2017 New York state budget in Rep. Kevin Cahill's office on Feb. 9, 2016. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Despite months of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Apr. 1, 2016 - 10:00 am
Above: "Peter with a Brown Trout,” by Joan Challacombe, one of the runners-up in the 2015 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest. (The 2016 photo contest ends tonight, so enter now!)
It's the first day of fishing season in the Catskills, and the oddly... Read more
By Robert Burke Warren on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2016 - 7:53 am
Above: The seventh annual Woodstock Writers Festival puts the spotlight on addiction, an epidemic in the Catskills. Image via the Woodstock Writers Festival's Facebook page.
Editor’s note: Robert Burke Warren, the author of the new novel “Perfectly... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Mar. 18, 2016 - 4:26 pm
Above: Maple syrup on pancakes at Buck Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo by Heather Phelps-Lipton.
Shake off the late-winter blahs and come celebrate Maple Weekend--actually two weekends of open houses--in the sugar shacks of the Catskills. The first of the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2016 - 1:52 pm
Above: The full Irish treatment awaits at Gavin's Irish Country Inn this weekend in East Durham. Image via the Gavin's Irish Country Inn Facebook page.
The Irish love affair with the rocky, rolling green of the Catskills spans generations. In the Greene... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2016 - 12:51 pm
Over 400 bags of heroin were found in a car heading from New York City to the Otsego County city of Oneonta on Sunday, March 13, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies pulled over 20-year-old Oneonta resident Francesa Lorusso... Read more