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By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 11, 2015 - 12:58 am
In one of his final acts as New York State's top environmental official, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens acted on Friday to allow the long-awaited Belleayre Resort project in the Catskills to move forward.  In a... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Tuesday, Jul. 7, 2015 - 9:48 am
Above: Innkeeper Stacey Patch in the living area in one of the guest rooms at The Sherwood's Inn at Riverview. Photo by Robert Cairns. To help ease an accommodations crunch in the midst of a Catskills tourism boom, buildings that house SUNY Delhi students... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2015 - 3:44 pm
After 30 years of planning, it took less than a year to get the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center in the Ulster County hamlet of Mount Tremper from groundbreaking to ribbon-cutting. Hundreds of people gathered to watch former Congressman... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2015 - 12:49 pm
Above: Catskills v. Hamptons T-shirts on The Graham & Co.'s Instagram page in 2013.  The "Year of the Catskills" continues: On Tuesday, June 23, the New York Post's Page Six gossip column quotes an "NYC nightlife guru" as saying that, yes, the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2015 - 2:14 pm
Above: The groundbreaking of the Z Living/Veria Nature Cure & Ayurvedic Wellness Center. From left to right: Mike McCormack, LMV Architecture, LLP; Chrissy Schiff, representative for Congressman Chris Gibson; Sullivan County Legislative Chairman Scott... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015 - 12:14 pm
A year ago, on April 23, 2014, the Delaware County Board of Supervisors voted to ask the New York State Legislature to impose a 2 percent occupancy tax on room and hotel rentals in Delaware County. But despite broad support for the so-called bed tax among... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 - 12:23 pm
Above: Locally cured bacon from Fleisher's, the artisanal Catskills butcher shop that has outposts in Kingston and Park Slope, Brooklyn. Photo via the Fleisher's Facebook page.  Another downstate media outlet is tackling our question: Is 2015 the year of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 - 1:35 pm
Above: A Southside cocktail made with Warwick Gin at Livingston Manor, a new bar in downtown Brooklyn. Photo via the Livingston Manor website.  Livingston Manor, the Sullivan County hamlet, meet Livingston Manor, the new bar in downtown Brooklyn. The bar... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 - 2:36 pm
Above: A double rainbow over the Ashokan Reservoir in July 2014. Photo by Rebecca Balzac, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.  Joining the likes of Travel + Leisure and Fodor's, the New York Times has listed the Catskills as one of "52 Places to Go... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 - 11:28 am
Above: Barnes Hill on a sunny fall day in 2014. Photo by Dennis Schevjda, via Flickr.  If the national travel press has anything to do with it, the Catskills will be flooded with tourists in 2015. Two separate publications, Fodor's and Travel + Leisure,... Read more

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