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By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 - 9:54 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 4:29 pm
Jon and Tiffany Kalupa in their new Margaretville store, Reprise. Photos by Julia Reischel.
A dingy storefront that has stood empty on Main Street in Margaretville for over a year has been transformed into a men's clothing boutique that wouldn't look out... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 3:53 pm
While most of the nation's political middle seems to be going the way of the dodo, centrists hang on in NY's 24th Congressional district. Photo of hollowed-out tree by Flickr user joelogon; published under Creative Commons license.
Last week, former... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 12:59 pm
Brooklyn Bridge in the snow, by Randy Lemoine. Photo via Flickr, some rights reserved.
Michele Forsten, the director of communications for New York City College of Technology/CUNY, bought a condo in Ulster County in order to get away from the big city.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 10:28 am
The hosts and broadcasters at Roxbury's WIOX radio station are celebrating today. The full-power FM station, which you can hear throughout much of Delaware County on 91.3 FM, is now also online. To listen to the streaming audio of the station's current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 3:24 pm
WBNG Binghamton reports that some local Delaware County dancers were tapped to march in the enormous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City yesterday:
Five young dancers from the Kennedy Performing Art Studio in Sidney strutted their stuff in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 1:14 pm
The New York Times ran a long and loving article yesterday on a Catskills tradition: KlezKamp, a Yiddish culture festival-cum-bootcamp that runs the week between Christmas and New Year's at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson. The gathering... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 11:29 am
We here at Watershed Post HQ wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. (Certainly happier than ours -- the whole team here has a terrible cold and will be missing the big feast entirely.)
Here are two Catskills Thanksgiving nuggets gleaned from the internet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 10:45 am
People are getting mighty excited about gas drilling. An article on the business website The Street yesterday urged its readers to jump on the natural-gas bandwagon before it, er, "explodes:"
2011 is going to be the year for natural gas. Stories keep... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 - 2:55 pm
Oorah's BoyZone camp in Jefferson. Photo by Julia Reischel
The Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, reports that Oorah Inc., the company that owns a Jewish boy's summer camp in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson, was the target of a noisy... Read more
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