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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2015 - 11:04 am
Calling all Catskills artists: You’re invited to come play a Surrealist parlor game this spring.
Exquisite Corpse was an early 20th century favorite pastime for the likes of André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Man Ray. It’s the visual... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 2, 2015 - 12:51 pm
Above: Video footage of Monticello mayor Gordon Jenkins ranting and throwing a clock while in a booking room on a drunk driving arrest in November 2013. (Warning: There's a lot of profanity. Jenkins throws the clock at the 1:21:55 mark.)
Monticello's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2015 - 4:34 pm
Above: Boys Fishing, by Amanda Lee Popp. Submitted to the 2014 Catskills Outdoor Guide Photo Contest.
April Fool’s day is the first day of fishing season in New York state, and it's playing a freezing cold joke on hopeful anglers vying to catch the first... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2015 - 11:00 am
The Margaretville Health Foundation has established a Planned Giving program offering numerous financial and tax advantages to those who participate. A planned gift is any major gift, made from the assets of a donor- in lifetime or at death-as part of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 27, 2015 - 12:54 pm
Photo by Eric Molina, via Flickr.
After nine months of surveillance and wiretapping, investigators from the New York Attorney General's Office and the New York State Police have arrested a group of 13 people for trafficking heroin in New York and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 27, 2015 - 12:03 pm
A series of truck accidents on Route 17 in Sullivan County continues.
On Wednesday, March 25, eastbound Route 17 in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating was closed for an hour after the driver of an Isuzu box truck rear-ended a Mack tractor trailer and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015 - 4:20 pm
Along with maple syrup and the first red blush of buds on the mountainsides, spring is bringing a bloom of new publications devoted to covering the culture, arts and lifestyle of the Catskills — through the eyes of flatlanders.
These days, urbanites are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2015 - 12:25 pm
New eateries serving fresh doughnuts, Vietnamese banh mi, baklava and cheesy grits have all opened in the mountains this past year or so. From the 2015 Catskills Food Guide, here are some of our favorites.
The doughnuts at Twin Peaks Coffee & Donuts (... Read more
By Keady Sullivan on Monday, Mar. 23, 2015 - 11:12 am
After a brutal winter in the Catskills, college students are holding their breath, hoping for no more snow days.
College classes at SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Delhi, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oneonta, SUNY Sullivan and SUNY Ulster have all experienced weather-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015 - 3:58 pm
Above: An ice rescue training on the Rondout Reservoir on March 10. Photo via the DEP's Flickr page.
March, when the ice of Catskills lakes and reservoirs is the thickest, is the time of year when first responders freshen up their ice rescue skills.
Last... Read more
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