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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013 - 11:54 am
Above: The three top finishers in the men's pro category take the podium on Sunday at Tour of the Catskills, a three-day pro/am cycling race that ranges over some of the Catskills' most grueling road terrain in Greene and Ulster Counties. Left to right:... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 - 11:36 am
Kingston welcomed the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign yesterday, as a supporting contingent of Dakota Unity Riders rode down Broadway and a flotilla of paddlers arrived at the Rondout waterfront, accompanied by a replica of a Dutch fur-trading ship called... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 - 10:53 am
Meet Nemo, a 730-pound pig currently being treated at Cornell University for B-cell lymphoma. According to a recent television news report from CNY Central, Nemo may be the first of his species to be treated for lymphoma; Cornell vets are using a catheter... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 31, 2013 - 9:58 am
Phoenicia's larger-than-life Davy Crockett gets a bath, in preparation for his big move. On August 17, the statue -- which has stood for decades on Phoenicia's Main Street, in front of the Sportsman's Alamo Cantina -- is moving down the street to his new... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 29, 2013 - 3:40 pm
Chop wood, carry weeds: Practitioners at work at the garden of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, which grows food for the monastery's kitchen and flowers for the altar. For more photos of the monastery garden at the peak of the summer season,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 12:12 pm
Above: Taking the plunge at Fawn's Leap, a popular swimming hole on Kaaterskill Creek. It's not uncommon for a few of those who brave the 24-foot drop from the cliff each summer to end up with serious injuries -- so if you must leap, leap with care. Photo... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013 - 4:48 pm
It's blueberry season in the Catskills, as this recent Delaware County crop can attest. Photo by the folks at Maple Shade Farm, who run stands in Margaretville and Franklin as well as on their 200-acre farm in Delhi.
Meet the Catskills' new favorite... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2013 - 3:33 pm
Above: Kevin and Donovan Monahan of Big Kev's BBQ. Since 2010, the brothers have been slinging barbecue on the road and at local festivals. Last Friday, Big Kev's celebrated the opening of a new roadside stand in White Lake, on the corner of Royce Road... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 22, 2013 - 2:20 pm
Above: Rip Van Winkle awakening from his twenty-year nap. The eight-ton sculpture on Hunter Mountain, carved from native bluestone, is the work of stone sculptor Keven VanHentenryck, who worked on Rip for 14 years before finishing him in 2009.... Read more
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
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