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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 Ulster Ballet Company on Tuesday, Sep. 8, 2015 - 11:57 am
The Ulster Ballet Company will be sponsoring
a Vine Van Gogh evening on Wednesday, September 23rd, at Christina’s Restaurant, 812 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, New York, to raise money for the company’s 2015-2016 productions. Join us for an evening of... 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
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 New York City Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 - 11:46 am
Job ID: 202161Business Title: Watershed MaintainerCivil Service Title: WATERSHED MAINTAINERTitle Code No: 91011Level: 00Job Category: Maintenance & OperationsCareer Level: Entry-LevelProposed Salary Range: $ 36,181.00 - $ 52,920.00 (Annual)Work... 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