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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 - 5:06 pm
To buy local meat in the Catskills, you've got to know where to look. But the extra effort pays delicious dividends -- like this grass-fed ribeye from Liddle Farm in the Delaware County hamlet of Halcottsville. Photo from the Facebook page of AgriForaging... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013 - 11:59 am
Above: Belleayre Mountain looking good on the first ski weekend of the season. The Catskills' three large ski centers -- Belleayre, Windham and Hunter -- all opened for ski season last weekend. Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury is slated to join them for the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 - 11:48 am
Above: Rainfall totals for the storm so far, posted to Facebook by the National Weather Service station in Albany around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Rainfall has been heavy in the Catskills during the storm that began Tuesday afternoon. Most areas in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 - 3:47 pm
Above: A selection of Catskills dairy products. Photo by Toni Brogan.
The locavore movement has made a celebrity of many a humble ingredient, sparking a renaissance of old-fashioned vegetable varieties and elevating the lowly pork belly to the level of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 - 10:34 pm
The Northeast is currently bracing for a midweek storm that threatens to dump snow, ice, sleet and rain on Thanksgiving plans. To the south and west of New York State, snow and rainstorms that will fuel what the National Weather Service is calling a "... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 - 3:03 pm
Steven Walker. Photo courtesy of the New York State Police.
A Wright man was arrested last week for allegedly pulling three healthy permanent teeth from the mouth of a developmentally disabled eight-year-old girl in his care.
Gallupville resident Steven... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 - 6:11 pm
Above: AccuWeather graphic showing potential scenarios for a storm that's slated to move up the coast toward the Northeast next week, just in time for Thanksgiving. For more on that, see AccuWeather's Friday story about the storm.
Hang onto your Pilgrim... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 - 11:35 am
In the rural Catskills, 2013 was the Year of the Absentee Voter.
On Nov. 5, Election Day, dozens of races around the region were too close to call from the machine count alone. In a few of them, a count of the absentee and affidavit ballots reversed the... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 - 10:12 am
Need a little help with your baking this Thanksgiving? Apple pie from Bread Fellows in Andes is as artful as it is delicious. Photo from Bread Fellows' Facebook page.
November 28 is roaring up the calendar at us—are you ready to feast? Here’s a roundup of... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 - 9:27 am
Above: Prime Steakhouse & Spirits welcomes the Windham ski crowd. Photo by Jennifer Strom.
Let’s just pause for a moment and think a grateful thought about Catskills restaurateurs.
First of all, opening a restaurant anywhere takes guts. The effort and... Read more
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