Meredith
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 - 1:47 pm
Up here in the Catskills, in the heart of New York City's vast rural watershed, it's impossible to forget that one lives in the middle of the city's water supply. The city's huge reservoirs dominate the landscape. Watershed affairs dominate local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 - 4:35 pm
Above: Rains will move across New York on Wednesday night, Oct. 15, according to a radar image posted on NWS Binghamton's Facebook page.
Flooding on smaller tributaries and streams may occur in Delaware and Sullivan counties in the western Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:02 pm
Left: Ethan-Jon Sackett, in a photo published with his obituary.
A 22-year-old from Delhi died on Monday, Sept 29 in a motorcycle accident on County Road 10 in the Delaware County town of Meredith, according to the Daily Star.
Ethan-Jon Sackett was a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Columbus Day Weekend is coming up, and the Catskills are making the most of summer's last hurrah.
If you're a Catskills local, you've been living in a slow-mo fireworks display for a couple of weeks now, as maples, beeches, birches and oaks erupt in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 12:09 pm
Above: A bagel with lox from H&H Bagels Midtown East. Photo by Flickr user Kenneth Lu.
A story by the business news site Quartz on Oct. 7 confirmed what New Yorkers already know: The secret to NYC's bagels is in the water.
Bagel entrepreneurs are so... Read more
By West Kortright Centre on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 - 10:58 am
November 2, Sunday, 4 PMBattlefield BandTraditional Scottish Music
Recently awarded‘ Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and... Read more
By Rich Muellerleile on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 - 3:33 pm
Not only is this week Fire Prevention Week, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has just declared that today, Oct. 7, is Firefighter Appreciation Day. To mark the occasion, we've asked Rich Muellerleile, a firefighter, paramedic, and longtime Watershed Post columnist... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: An Autumn Olive (Wildberry) Mojito. Photo courtesy of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Make your own with the recipe at the bottom of this story.
Foraging for food that grows wild has long been a hobby for nature lovers out walking in the woods. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 11:14 am
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and a slew of other groups and volunteers will fan out across the Catskills on Sunday, Oct. 5 to clean up four of the NYC reservoirs -- the Pepacton, the Cannonsville, the Neversink, and the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 - 10:17 am
Lumberjacks will descend on East Meredith tomorrow to demonstrate cross-cut sawing, ax throwing, and horse-powered log hauling at the Woodsmen's Festival at the Hanford Mills Museum.
The Woodsmen’s Club from the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology... Read more
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