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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Sep. 3, 2015 - 12:54 pm
Above: Throwing a rock into Cooper Lake in Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Panda Snaps, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Labor Day is upon us in all its bittersweet glory, and the Catskills are rising to the occasion with festivities celebrating... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2015 - 11:51 am
Peggy Brueckner lives near the Peekamoose Blue Hole, an icy Catskills pool that is recognized as one of the best swimming holes in the country. Her family has visited the hidden spot for 50 years. But this summer, due to hordes of tourists and the tons of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015 - 9:38 am
Above: Jeff Senterman accepts his new post as the executive director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on Saturday, Aug. 29. Photo via the Catskill Center's Instagram feed.
Jeff Senterman, the former Catskills program director of... Read more
By Robert Cairns on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 4:23 pm
In the aftermath of two state audits that criticized Delaware County's procurement and surplus property disposal policies, the county's board of supervisors adopted an update of those policies at its meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
A procurement policy was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 9:19 pm
A 22-year-old man from Yonkers drove 107 miles per hour on Route 17 through the Delaware County town of Hancock early on Wednesday morning, police say.
Mark B. Frederick was sent to the Delaware County Correctional Facility on Wednesday, Aug. 26 after he... Read more
By Catskill Forest Association on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 10:14 am
CFA-On-The-Air: From the Forest
Wednesday’s 6PM – 7PM
WIOX ROXBURY 91.3FM or www.wioxradio.org
Wednesday’s Show: Forest Talk with Mike Porter
This Wednesday we’ll be talking to Mike Porter again about this & that. Mike Porter is a local maple producer... Read more
By Catskill Forest Association on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 - 10:10 am
By Ryan Trapani, Education Forester at the Catskill Forest Association
“I’m going hunting in the mountains.” It just sounds right, doesn’t it? For years people from the Hudson Valley left their homes, packed a bag and a gun, and headed for the hills of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 - 11:32 am
Above: Power outages in Schoharie County, according to National Grid's outage map.
Power outages are dotted across five Catskills counties on Friday, Aug. 21, with thousands of households in the dark in Schoharie County and hundreds without power in... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 - 11:44 am
Image by Dan Moyle, via Flickr.
Real estate sales are up all over the Catskills, according to realtors across the region who say that rustic, country and move-in-ready homes are attracting buyers.
But while the number of sales are up, the price of what’s... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 - 1:41 pm
Many people to thank and not enough photos captured of the day. Planning underway for 2016. Join us in 2016 for the Golf and for the Camaraderie.