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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 - 11:02 am
Above: Snowmen in love in Roxbury promote Sunday's Hearts in the Hamlet event, via Facebook.
Just when we desperately need a celebration to take the edge off the cabin fever and the late-winter blahs, here it is Valentine’s Day. What could be lovelier? In... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 - 4:13 pm
The 2015 Catskills Food Guide is out. Click here for more info. - Ed.
Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Food Guide to send us their best photos of Catskills food and farms. This year, 32 photographers entered our 2015... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 - 8:01 am
Above: Icicles in Andes on Saturday, Feb. 7, by Mark Zilberman. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr Pool.
Schools and offices are closed around the Catskills on Monday, Feb. 9 as the National Weather Service predicts 8 to 14 in inches of snow for the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 - 1:04 pm
Above: A promotional video for the Catskill Park, produced by Catskill Mountainkeeper.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, at least in Albany. And until recently, the Catskills were pretty quiet when it came to asking New York’s legislature and governor... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 - 1:55 pm
Above: "A bitterly cold night is expected across eastern NY and western New England," according to a tweet from the National Weather Service in Albany.
The National Weather Service is warning that temperatures ranging from negative 5 to negative 10... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 - 2:54 pm
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 - 11:20 am
Above: A sheepdog guards its flock during a Catskills snowstorm on Monday, Jan. 2. Photo by Mark Zilberman, via Flickr.
After the fakeout from last week's snowstorm-that-wasn't, a foot of snow is falling across the Catskills today, Monday, Feb. 2. Many... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 - 12:23 pm
Above: Locally cured bacon from Fleisher's, the artisanal Catskills butcher shop that has outposts in Kingston and Park Slope, Brooklyn. Photo via the Fleisher's Facebook page.
Another downstate media outlet is tackling our question: Is 2015 the year of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 - 12:16 pm
9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27: The travel ban in Ulster County (and in most other New York counties) has been lifted, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office:
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this morning announced that the travel ban in the Hudson Valley (Dutchess,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 - 4:58 pm
Above: Projected snowfall totals in the Catskills and Hudson Valley by Hudson Valley Weather.
Update, 1/26: We are tracking live updates on the progress of the storm through the Catskills and Hudson Valley. Click here to follow along.
The forecasters at... Read more