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By Timothy Knight on Thursday, Sep. 17, 2015 - 10:16 am
Unless something drastic occurs in the next three months, homeowners in Schoharie County may be facing a possible property tax increase of eight to nine percent next year, according to budget officer Bill Cherry. Citing the expenses of the newly created... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2015 - 11:23 am
Update: 11:49 a.m. The alert for Louise E. Scheurich was cancelled at 11:49 a.m.  An 87-year-old Narrowsburg woman is missing after being last seen at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15 getting gas in Binghamton, according to the New York State Police in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 11, 2015 - 12:55 pm
There were lots of close political contests across the Catskills in yesterday's primary election. Here are the results in the hottest races.  DELAWARE COUNTY In the race for Delaware County Family Court Judge, Conservative voters overwhelmingly chose... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 10, 2015 - 3:35 pm
Photo by Kristin Ausk, via Flickr. Today--Thursday, Sept. 10--is primary election day in New York, and voters who are registered with political parties across the Catskills can go to the polls to vote for town and county candidates running in primary... Read more
By Timothy Knight on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015 - 7:18 am
Above: Photo by Doug Kerr, via Flickr.  After more than twenty months of debate, interviews and political maneuvering, Schoharie County has hired its first administrator to oversee the day to day operations of its county government. At a meeting on... Read more
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
The front page of an issue of The Schoharie News
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015 - 11:46 am
The Schoharie News, an online-only news website that reinvented itself as a print weekly broadsheet earlier this year, has thrown in the towel after 13 weeks. The paper's owner, editor and founder Tim Knight, said that he decided to close the paper after... 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

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